🧵 Part 1/2: Gentle reminder (a big one for me) that major life changes, even the joyful ones like leaving home, long-term partnership, starting a family, retirement, reinvention or other milestones — carry tremendous transition within them.

And while it’s natural to feel excited about the future, these moments often involve a major shift from an old version of life into a new one. And if you don’t take time to account for how that transition may affect you internally, it’s easy to feel profoundly overwhelmed or even disoriented by the experience itself.

It’s also important to remember that multiple things can be true at once. You can feel excited and also deeply afraid of what’s ahead. You can experience change externally first then internally later. You may notice it touching many layers within you — your sense of self, identity, emotions, or long-held beliefs. And you may even find yourself questioning everything all at once! That’s what happened to me.

That’s okay. That’s part of change.

Continued in 2/2.