My Top 10 Tips for Navigating a Career Transition
Career transitions can feel overwhelming, but they also present an opportunity to reinvent yourself and realign your life with your values. Whether you’re making a shift by choice or necessity, there are steps you can take to make the process smoother and more fulfilling. Here are my top 10 tips to guide you:
Keep Going
Career-life transitions often feel like walking through the dark. You may hit obstacles, feel unsure, or become overwhelmed. It is best to rest when needed and then keep going. The growth path is never linear, and while external factors play a role, many of the most significant barriers we face are internal—rooted in our unconscious beliefs.
Welcome Your Anger
In a culture that often promotes "good vibes only," there’s pressure to bypass challenging emotions like anger spiritually. Spiritual bypassing is when we use spiritual practices or ideas to avoid uncomfortable emotions or realities. However, suppressing or dismissing anger can prevent us from fully understanding ourselves.
Boundaries for Life Satisfaction
Living without boundaries can leave you feeling overwhelmed, disorganized, and constantly on edge. Establishing boundaries is crucial for maintaining balance and well-being in your life.
Freedom To
When my clients start working with me, they often want to leave a job they dislike, which drains them. Unfortunately, due to financial obligations like food, shelter, and health, they cannot quit. They feel “in-between,” where they are what they know they need but struggle to plot a path forward.
Embrace Your Tender Heart
Vulnerability is often misunderstood as fragility. However, it is through vulnerability that we connect most deeply with others and ourselves. A tender heart allows you to feel deeply, to empathize with others, and to approach life with a sense of openness and curiosity. By embracing your tenderness, you acknowledge the full spectrum of your emotions, giving yourself permission to experience life in its generous form.
Full Permission To Be Lost
It is inevitable for people going through a career-life transition to feel lost. In a culture that prefers “knowing” or having the “answer” or the next “goal,” if you find yourself “lost,” it can feel like you are in a pressure cooker to find your way fast and to do so quickly.
Forgive Yourself
Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for past choices that did not turn out as you wished. Forgive yourself for not being kind to your heart, body, and soul. Forgive yourself for not being where you thought you would be at this time in your life. Forgive yourself for caring too much or being too sensitive. Forgive yourself for not being kind. Just simply forgive yourself.
There is Grace in Creating Boundaries
Boundaries are essential, especially if you want to live life on purpose. Or, put another way, if you're going to live a sane life. Almost every woman I know, including friends and clients, struggles with boundaries, which I believe is a form of internalized sexism. As females, we are trained to be relational and think of others first
Inspiration, Effort and Flow
Each season brings us a new beginning and ending—weather, food, flowers, plants, and trees. Nature reminds us that nothing stays the same, yet we can expect a beautiful rhythm in life. The sun rises, and the moon shines at night. The sun shines greater in summer, and the moon waxes and wanes. It is all ever-changing but expected.