Embracing Life’s Transitions

Journeys have become an essential part of my life. Traveling from one destination to another for work, I spend countless hours on buses, moving between cities and moments. Those quiet hours open up a vast inner space — for contemplation, rethinking, re-examining, and sometimes simply resting.

The road has become symbolic of my own transitions — a space between what was and what is yet to come.

Each journey feels like both a physical and emotional passage, echoing the many goodbyes I have said in recent years and the transformations unfolding within me.

Crossing Borders — Outer and Inner

Living between two countries has taught me that crossing borders is never just a physical act. It mirrors the emotional and spiritual boundaries we cross within ourselves. From my early stage of menopause, where my body and energy shift, to my son’s transition into puberty, and our family’s move into a new home, life seems to be made of overlapping transitions.

At the same time, close friends around me are also navigating loss, grief, and new beginnings. Some are moving continents, some are rebuilding lives after farewells they never expected to say. Change, it seems, is the quiet thread weaving through all our stories.

Grieving as a Path to Growth

Change is inevitable, but it is not always easy. It can be frightening, uncomfortable, and full of uncertainty. We often celebrate transformation as a symbol of growth — and it is — but it is equally important to honor the ache that comes with it.

We don’t always need to wear the armor of strength. There is beauty in vulnerability, in allowing our souls to rest and admit fear, sadness, or grief. These emotions are not signs of weakness; they are proof of our humanness, reminders of how deeply we feel and care.

Much has been written about change as a necessary step in personal growth and expansion. But true transformation asks us to make space for grief too, to acknowledge the anger, disappointment, and sorrow that surface when the familiar slips away.

When we embrace our emotions instead of resisting them, we create room for deeper healing and understanding. Accepting our imperfect, fearful selves allows us to walk through change more gently, not forcing positivity, but finding peace in honesty.

Learning to Be Human Again

Change pushes us to grow and release, but also to feel deeply and without judgment. When uncertainty clouds the path ahead, fear is not only natural. It is part of our human experience.

Life’s transitions, in all their chaos and beauty, remind us to slow down, breathe, and trust that every ending holds a seed of beginning.

On my physical and metaphorical journeys, I am learning that the most profound courage lies not in conquering fear but in allowing it. To be scared, to grieve, to feel sadness, these are not weaknesses, but acts of grace.