Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition

Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition | William Bridges | Eye-Opening

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	Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes, Revised 25th Anniversary Edition William Bridges Da Capo Press, 2004 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Hope-Filled Guide to Life's Changes

A friend pointed me toward this book. In a very short space of time he lost a child, lost his home, lost his job, and watched his remaining children leave for college. How did he survive such major life changes? This book was certainly a part of his survival tool kit. Later, when I was facing a major life change, he directed me to this resource. I found it enlightening and reassuring. This book is a definite 5-stars for anyone going through major life change.

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My understanding of transitions has been turned upside-down. I am grateful for the knowledge that has shed light on some tough, tough periods of my life. Bridges is right... it all makes sense now.

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Transition Is Not Change

Transitions by William Bridges walks you through transitions. He makes good distinctions in the differences between loss and grieving, simple change, and transitions. This belongs in your owner's manual for living.

Change has a goal. Transitions don't. In a transition, you have no idea where your path leads. To sedate myself, I often imagine the transition I am in is a simple change. This looks and feels like the denial process of grief.

I say to myself, "We're just moving to a place without stairs." Deep down where I avoid looking, I recognize this simple change is really transition. Our lives will turn upside down and I don't know who I will be or who we will be on the other side.

Transition has three stages that overlap, come and go.

1. Endings: It is useful to identify what is ending in your life. For instance, my life as a father with children living at home is ending.

2. Neutral Zone: This can look and feel like depression. Things go flat, rudderless, ambitionless. Time spent alone in silence, in nature works wonders.

3. New Beginnings: You cautiously begin the new ways of living. The desire, of course, is to leap to the new beginnings before paying the dues of steps 1 & 2. I promise you, there is no short cut. You will pay those dues one way or another before you truly can begin. I suggest you pay them cheerfully and proactively by scheduling the time needed. It goes fastest that way.

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Liked the original better

I gave away my copy of Bridges'original offering. I found this book to be acceptable but not as direct as the first book.

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