Dear young married couple, grief isn't just for funerals.

It shows up when you leave a job, when your kids grow up, when sex changes after childbirth,

when a dream dies quietly in the night.

And most of us miss it because no one told us that joy and grief often walked together in transitions. But if you don't name it,

you can't heal it. And if you don't grieve it, you'll carry it. So what is a transition? A transition is

the psychological and emotional process of letting go of one reality and then adapting to a new one.

So it's not just the external change event, but it's the internal journey of trying to navigate

that change. Yeah. And this is something we wanted to bring to you today just because we see it

popping up so often in counseling

sessions. Let's just face it, our lives are complicated and we're constantly going through

change, especially with the rapid rate the world is going at. We go through change. We move, we do

things. And oftentimes we don't have words to describe our

feelings inside. So we wanted to bring some words, some awareness, and hopefully help you spot

if you're going through one of these transitions yourself. Yes. And we want to just try to make that distinction again.

I know I mentioned it, but just that you guys can hold on to it since we're going to be using this language throughout this, the session, the episode today.

So first, the key distinction here, the change is external.

So you can have a new job, a baby, a death,

a move, and that change is external. But the transition is internal. That's how you process,

how you adapt, and how you integrate that change. So like when we think about someone dying,

that is a loss. But the grief, the way you respond

to that loss, that loss, that's the transition.

And you can grieve the good changes too.

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