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March 6, 2024

For the past five years, I’ve been exploring life transitions–my own transitions through professional pivots, supporting a parent experiencing dementia, my mid-life innermission, and grieving the loss of my parents. I’ve also developed resources and helped others through life transitions–divorce, job transitions, and becoming a first-time parent. Transitions are abundant and there is rhythm and a pattern to them, even when the loss, grief, frustration, and confusion make it feel untethered and frenetic. In examining transitions, I’ve relied a lot on the logical patterns of the process–naming the endings, investigating the messiness of the neutral zone, and intentionally planning the next step. But sometimes logic isn’t enough. Sometimes our rational brain wants to control or think through the process of transition at a pace, or with an approach that isn’t authentic to our real needs in moments of transition. Enter my journey into somatics.