This is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, and you're listening to the love, happiness, and success podcast. And Success Podcast.

This is Lone Elm with the song, Okay, Now What, which I thought kind of captured the mood for our podcast today.

I think it nicely conveys the kind of shimmering anxiety one feels

when you've realized that you may have made a wrong turn along the way and aren't entirely

sure what to do next. And that's what we're talking about today. I am so excited for today's

episode because today we're talking about how to navigate a quarter life crisis.

Now, quarter life crisis is not a clinical term and you're not going to fight it in the DSM and people are usually not literally freaking out and falling apart.

But this is kind of an existential crisis that we do

actually often see with clients at a certain phase of life here, a growing self. And it's often,

you know, people in their late 20s, early 30s who are showing up in counseling, coaching, because they've just started

asking themselves some big questions, you know, often, often for the first time, they're thinking

about where they are in their lives, in their careers, in their relationships, how they got

here, and kind of contrasting that with where they had wanted to be or where they

had expected to be in this point in life or even how they imagined it would feel to be at this

point in life. And there's a disconnect there that helps them recognize that maybe they're not

doing what ultimately they would like to be,

but they didn't realize that without having some life experience first.

And so this can all be a very uncomfortable experience, but also ultimately a very positive one,

because it opens the door for some really meaningful self-reflection

that generates a lot of positive change. And so if any of this is sounding familiar to you,

I am so glad that you're here with us today. We're talking about how you can use this crisis

as a springboard for growth and come out of it to be more clear,

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