Change doesn’t change people. Transitions do. After diving into the literature on the topic, it’s stunning to me that we lack a common language around life’s transitions given how many we encounter either by choice or circumstance all our lives. Sometimes, being in a transition is like losing the plot of your life. And that’s because as anthropologists and psychologists alike say, transitions put us in a liminal state where we must navigate between a past that’s clearly over, and a future that’s still unwritten and uncertain.

For that I say, we need a new literacy for understanding life’s transitions seeing as they affect all aspects of our well-being, personally and professionally. 

Liminal is my new podcast and I chat with experts from around the world to explore what it is about transitions – big or small – that drive us to ask ourselves what more we want to achieve with full heart, or who it is we really want to be. 

To quote transition leader William Bridges, most people in a transition have an experience of no longer being quite sure of who they are. Turns out that these inner doubts are a good thing, for they are signals and signs that one is ready to see and understand more now. Well, sign me up.