Lit Up, Again

Transitions are more than milestones—they can feel like identity earthquakes.

In the next few posts, I’ll explore the three emotional and energetic phases of life shifts that women experience across all ages and stages. 

These shifts may center around:

Career • Finances • Relationships • Location • Purpose • Health 

What threads all of them together is this: Every life shift touches your identity. The alchemy of a shift doesn’t just rearrange your circumstances—it invites you to re-meet yourself.

Life Shifts Come in Many Flavors:

🍯 Sweet: You desired it and took action to make it happen.

⚡️ Shocking: Unexpected, disruptive, and almost more than you imagined surviving.

⏳ Expected: You saw it coming and it was inevitable. A blessing—or maybe not.

🥀 Bittersweet: A welcome release and disorienting in its swirl of excitement, grief, and newness.

In the next few posts, I’ll share:

 → Common thought patterns that show up during each phase

 → Tools to steady the ground beneath you

 → How a Designing Your Life mindset balances clarity with fluid self-trust

In my previous role as a career coach, it wasn’t the tactical wins—like a stronger résumé, emerging networking or interview savvy or even a new job—that lit me up.

It was this:

✨ Witnessing identity come alive through self-discovery, skill growth, and evolving stories. And former students, seeing themselves as young professionals, for the first time with a newfound sense of confidence. 

Now, as I shift my private coaching focus to working with women from their 20s into life well beyond full-time work, the joy of nurturing identity through life shifts is where I feel lit up, again.