“I feel stuck between who I was and who I want to become.”
The transition between identities involves real grief — for the old self, the old life, the version of you that no longer fits. That grief is legitimate. You cannot fully inhabit the new until you have honored the old enough to release it. Moving is not betrayal. It is growth.
Your Practice
Write a farewell to the version of yourself you are leaving behind — what they did right, what you're grateful for, what you're ready to release. Then write one sentence describing the person you are becoming. Read both. The discomfort between those two is not a sign that something is wrong. It is the work. Do the next right thing today to become the person in that second sentence.
The Architects
“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.”