8 Hard Truths for Seasons of Change
Soul Gum
by Victoria Hutchins
4.9 • 560 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
So your life just changed. Maybe you moved, your relationship ended, or you quit a job. You've found yourself in new territory without your usual routines, roles, or scripts. You're Googling “who even am I?” every night.
Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s wrong. In this episode, I’m sharing 8 things I wish I knew during past seasons of change in my life. The in-between is uncomfortable, but it's also full of possibility. If you’re in a messy middle right now, this one’s for you.
EPISODE OUTLINE
03:35 How to follow your intuition
06:38 How to know the right choice
10:50 The effect of your ego
14:10 The impact of who you keep close
19:27 The importance of confrontation
23:21 The impact of tiny choices
26:40 How to shift into the next chapter
28:59 Hard versus wrong
SOURCES
Audre Lorde essay: The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
Churning of the ocean story from the Mahabharata
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Seasons of change are uncomfortable, but they're also where transformation happens. |
| 0:07.9 | Let's talk about it. |
| 0:11.8 | Welcome back to Soulgum, the self-development podcast with philosophical, psychological, and spiritual flair. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm your host, Victoria Hutchins. My goal is to give your soul |
| 0:23.5 | something to chew on and today we are talking about seasons of change. If you've listened to |
| 0:31.5 | SoulGum before, welcome back. Hey, what's up? I'm so happy you're here. If you're new here, I'm so happy you're here too. |
| 0:40.4 | I'm Victoria. I am a writer and a content creator and a yoga teacher. And I'm coming out of my own |
| 0:48.6 | seasons of change right now. I got married in October of last year. And in March of this year, I released my debut book. |
| 0:58.4 | It's a poetry collection called Make Believe. It's out everywhere now. If you enjoy this podcast, |
| 1:04.3 | I think you might like it. Shameless plug. But I'm in the after of several big things that I'd been hoping for and dreaming about |
| 1:14.8 | and planning for for a really long time. On Soulgum, we talk a lot about philosophical books and |
| 1:20.9 | psychological research and ancient spiritual texts, and we're going to do all of that today. Don't |
| 1:26.6 | worry, but I also want to get straight |
| 1:29.7 | to the point today. I want to tell you about what I've learned navigating a season of change. |
| 1:37.3 | So this may be a little less of a formal episode. I hope that's okay. Maybe you clicked this episode because you just got out of a |
| 1:47.0 | relationship or you just got into a relationship. Maybe you're in a season of change when it comes |
| 1:53.0 | to your career. Maybe you just left a job or started a new job or decided you want to pursue |
| 2:00.0 | something new. Maybe you just moved and you're settling into a new job or decided you want to pursue something new. |
| 2:01.6 | Maybe you just moved and you're settling into a new place. |
| 2:05.6 | Maybe you've just gone back to school. |
| 2:07.6 | Maybe you just finished school. |
| 2:09.6 | Maybe you're going through a big change when it comes to family. |
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