This book by Cassidy Krug will help you with whatever transition is coming your way
This past year has been a whirlwind of change in the Workhorse From Home Family. Our challenges this year ranged from occupational- switching to a remote work position, to medical – one in our family had some difficult diagnoses to contend with, to mid-career burnout (one of us finished a terminal degree and is asking what’s next?). It’s been a whirlwind of transition and that has left us many times feeling unmoored and disoriented.
Enter Cassidy Krug.
The Right Book At The Right Time
One day I was looking up books on transitions- and maybe how to do all of this a bit better and came across an interview with Cassidy Krug on her new book, Resurface- A Guide to Navigating Life’s Biggest Transitions. It was like she was speaking into some of the free fall we had been experiencing that year.
She herself was no stranger to disorientation- as a National Champion and Olympic Diver- she had ascended to the top of her field. She even exited into retirement at the right time from the sport and felt good about it. But then, it all came crashing down. Going from job to job, trying on hat after hat, and trying to navigate the emotions that accompany life’s big transitions was more than she realized.
I bought the book.
I don’t regret it.
It’s been an interesting read as she covers and grapples with such difficult topics as Identity through career changes, grief, working through life issues, defining success and rebuilding. She interviews fascinating people who have gone through tremendously difficult things- attempted murder, infertility and miscarriage just to name two- and how they navigate through such difficulty. She’s a good writer too- weighing out these difficulties and teasing out the lessons for us to all learn from them.
If you are going through a time of transition, or see one on the horizon, this may be worth your time to pickup. I plan on revisiting some of these chapters again and again- because that really is what life is- a series of unending transitions that we are growing through.