How to Cope with Change and Grief

Since 2020, the human species has had to cope with a lot of change. Fast.

Changes in rules and regulations. 

Changes of lifestyle, schools, habits, home-life, work-life balance, jobs (i.e. The Great Resignation).

Maybe you’ve even changed your health or started your business. 

Some of the change has been reactionary to external circumstances. 

Some have been internal.

After all, all change changes you.

In this episode, I share how I have learned to accept change and navigate the grieving process that comes with any major life transition. 

You may remember that in 2021, I lost my dad. This past January I lost my aunt, grandmother, as well as two family friends, one who was just 26-years old, all within three weeks.

Not only am I grieving the loss of loved ones, but I’m also grieving Australia and the home we have spent the past 2 years building, as we move back to the US to support my mom…and, I'll be honest…have her support as well with the kids. 

(I can’t tell you how excited I am to have weekly dates with my husband again!)

And, as soon as we arrived back in Los Angeles, more changes at work happened! My mom’s business is changing: a business that I have seen my parents grow ALL my life, as she moves into semi-retirement.  

And our workload is changing with all the extra STUFF, literal, physical, and emotional STUFF - that comes from releasing three people’s lives and redesigning and recreating your life without them.

Yet, while there is a lot of uncertainty to deal with, there is also lots of certainty and trust that I have built up through these past 6 weeks. 

In this episode, I hope to give you some tools and strategies that have served me to handle change, grief, and to deal with uncertainty, To say it’s been a lot would be an understatement, but with these strategies, I hope that my experiences can help you navigate whatever current transitions you’re facing.

I share what worked, what didn’t work, what I did really well, and what I can improve on as I continue to grow through the grieving process and understand change. 

Click here to listen to this episode (#162) Coping Through Transitions and Grief

P.S. As a butterfly emerges from her cocoon, it’s a messy process. So just know that wherever you are, in whatever transition and transformation you’re growing through, I am cheering and championing you on always.