Summary
Julia Samuel: And it will pass - About life changes, crises and hope
How do we feel and how do we adapt to major life changes? How do life changes test our beliefs and attitudes that we have taken for granted? Why are we more affected by the ways in which changes occur than by the changes themselves? How do we think about life changes and how do we resist them and are we even made to adapt? Why are we confused by the word "pension"? How to accept dismissal, divorce, serious illness, return from maternity leave, gender indeterminacy...? How can the knowledge that "this too shall pass" help us?
Julia Samuel, a leading British psychotherapist through several case studies, helps us to normally accept the changes in life that we are most afraid of in certain stages of life. Because if change is part of the natural order of things, why do so many of us feel unprepared to deal with it? The author decided on the changes that occur in five central aspects of life: family relationships, love, work, health and identity and writes about how we change, what we feel, how we develop from it and what slows us down. At the end of each topic, the author cites relevant scientific research and statistics.
It is not easy to accept life changes, even with the comforting knowledge that "this too shall pass", but it is very important to understand yourself at every stage of life and not to be self-destructive but compassionate towards yourself at the time of key life changes. Each next step in the natural course of life should be taken with a little more joy, clarity, self-confidence and, of course, hope, as well as with the knowledge that "this too shall pass".
THE ONLY CERTAINTY IS THE COMING OF CHANGE
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