HEALTH AND WELLBEING.

Change. 

It can happen suddenly, unexpectedly. It can happen by choice or not, change- the irrevocable feature of life. It is something that can feel acute to navigate. Our brains are orientated towards patterns and predictability and when all becomes uncertain, we can fret and feel powerless. Martha Beck in her book The North Star writes that there are four cycles to change that move us through feelings of formlessness and grief as our old selves and habits dissolve, into hopefulness and dreaming, action, failing and finally into actuality and a new identity. The only thing constant in life is change, yet it seems a skill that we can collectively become adverse to. Embracing change is opening ourselves up to possibility- how and where can you embrace it?

12 Dec 2024

References and Further Reading.

Beck Martha, 2003, Finding your own North Star, Piatkus. London.

Popova Maria, The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation: Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change, The Marginalian, https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/06/05/on-wanting-to-change-adam-phillips/ Accessed online 11. Dec 2024.

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