When It's Too Much Change All at Once
What Fresh Hell: Parenting, Relationships, and Making Life Better, with Two Funny MomsShow Notes
Have you ever felt like your life consisted of too many moving parts at the same time? In this episode, we explore why life tends to deliver too much change at once—and the difference between an actual change and the larger, more uncertain area of transition that both precedes and follows any big change.
We discuss:
Why even positive and worked-toward life transitions can feel overwhelming once they arrive
What "change saturation" and "change fatigue" look like
How your business partners, family members, or loved ones might be going through the same change, but on a very different transition timeline
Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode:
Our episode "Why We Avoid Uncertainty (And How That Gets In Our Way)"
Talkspace blog: How to Keep It Together When Everything Keeps Changing
North Highland blog: How Much Change is Too Much Change?
Cassandra Worthy: The 3 Stages Of Change Fatigue And How To Recover
Prosci blog: Bridges Transition Model Explained and Made Actionable
William Bridges Associates: William Bridges Bio
Cassandra Worthy: CHANGE ENTHUSIASM
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