After the Life Quake
If you are going through a big change in your life, you’ll know what I mean about a Life Quake.
These experiences shake up our foundations of who we know ourselves to be; we can feel quite unmoored and at sea. If you are going through this kind of change right now, if you know you are entering a period of change or maybe coming out of one, I thought it would be helpful to share more about this process (and maybe what to expect – it can be a relief to discover that there is a pattern to these things).
I’m also sharing a bit of behind-the-scenes of my own Life Quake over the last 9 months, what happened and how I’m making sense of things.
My hope is that this episode helps you feel less alone.
Quotes:
“It might be our first rodeo, but it won’t be our last. We do keep changing and growing. We’re always becoming, if we’re lucky.”
“There is the sense of being able to really see the love and the light of each person. Even those people who are behaving in ways that I find objectionable – I worry about the distance they’ve traveled to leave their humanity behind. What has happened to them, for them to think this is okay?”
“When that kind of grieving and shock begins to subside, we start to imagine sometimes quite big and wild options. Now that we’re no longer that, what will we choose to become?”
Mentioned in this episode:
Lianne Raymond (who shared the dragonfly analogy)
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