Welcome to the Anxiety Slayer series. Our mission is to assist you with creating more peace and tranquility in your life

through anxiety release exercises and supportive tools created to slay your

anxiety. the Beck said, any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small

adjustments in your way of living and thinking, but a full-on metamorphosis.

Today I hope to inspire each of you facing or immersed in a significant

change to better understand the four stages of a transitional cycle. Not too long ago I made one of the most important decisions in my life, the

promise to leave corporate America after 16 years and give my entrepreneurial calling a

shot. No longer a company creature, my job was surely destroying my soul. The corporate

culture changed drastically which led to what felt like a slow and certain

suffocation. Today I understand that without the extreme discomfort I may have never allowed myself to consider following my dreams.

Transition begins with discomfort. A change is coming. You can feel it, you can smell it.

But you might not be sure what the change is or what to do about it.

The more you fight it and try to get logical about this change, the longer you'll stay in the discomfort stage.

Some symptoms that you might come across are reluctance.

You might be fearful,

breathing, angry, infused or uncertain.

You might be more reactive than normal.

You might find that you distrust your decisions

and your intuition, and you're certainly likely to worry more than usual.

What to do? Stay with your routines that you know work for you. Try not to overcommit to others at home or at work. Allow yourself to go internal when you need to.

I like to suggest creating a 10 luscious daily habits list and stick to it.

Make these habits nurturing easy and fun.

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