Most people who start over solve the practical part faster than they expect: a new job, a new routine, a new place to live. What takes longer is the part nobody warns them about, which is the absence of anything that feels like it matters. This piece walks through why purpose doesn’t return the way … Read more
Making a major change and still feeling unsteady, lost, or wrong in the aftermath is one of the most disorienting experiences people describe, partly because so little prepares them for it. Starting over changes external circumstances first. The emotional interior catches up later, on a slower and less predictable schedule. What I saw across two … Read more
Most people expect the hard part of a life change to be the change itself. What I watched, across two decades of sitting with people at the end of their lives, was something different: the hardest stretch is almost always the in-between, the period after the old version of life has ended but before the … Read more