What's Between You and Change

On the Open That Door podcast this week, host Hollis talks about a missing step in achieving real and lasting change. When we decide we really do want to transform an area of our lives or tackle a previously out-of-reach goal, what is required of us is to become anew. It's in this process of having to release an old way of being or our grasp on old beliefs that we might experience a sense of self-betrayal (or familial betrayal) — to the person you have had to be to maintain the status quo in your life.

And sometimes that sense of betrayal comes with a feeling of loss and grief. Or anger, or sadness, or fear (which could just be excitement without breath behind it). These are real feelings that deserve space to be felt and acknowledged on the way to lasting change.

Any time we step up to a new challenge, we first have to let go of our current standing... literally and figuratively. Putting change into motion always requires that we take a step forward in a new direction, and continue that momentum. This act of change can disrupt old agreements we have inside of us, often unspoken and unacknowledged, about how life is "supposed to be" — even when our old ways are preventing us from living fully into our power and joy.

And yet, through the grief, the loss of what was, of that part of you that you identified with that no longer fits, is the pathway and the doorway through which a life of meaning and substance and fulfillment awaits you.

Open that door to a life and livelihood you love, my friend. Come back to life.

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