This SWPS Series presents hotspots of insight shared by Bill Bridges in his “uncommonly wise and moving” book, The Way of Transition. He sets up “change” against the follow-up experience of being in “transition.” Bridges then speaks of a transition that occurs with a specific “external change” such as losing a job, or the birth of a baby. He calls this type of external change a “reactive transition”. He says the transition after the death of his wife Mondi was reactive. But there are also internal changes he calls “developmental transitions”. This is not activated by an external change, but is a natural internal unfolding of who and how we are made. Such as transitions out of adolescence or a transition into/out of a midlife crisis. All these life changes, whether external change or internal change, bring transitions and different time periods of uncertainty in our life and cause realignment within the “neutral zone” and leads us to a new beginning.
