No longer an “I” because we’re now a “we.” Making decisions together takes practice and patience. Taking the next step isn’t for the faint of heart. A sweet time for many of us, myself included. I was 18 and moved into my own apartment close to the college campus. Was it as scary for you as it was for me? The sense of responsibility I felt to be aware of everything else around me made me feel very grown up. Many of us felt pressure to grow up fast. One of the many rights of passage into adulthood. As I remember that now, I try to channel that creativity as I make adult choices. I imagined all kinds of things for my life as I recognized hearts and birds and teddy bears in the white puffy clouds. I would spend hours alone lying face up on the boat dock, while the boys went out fishing. As a teenager, my family had a small vacation cottage on a lake in New Hampshire. Learning about creativity while imagining pictures in the clouds.Here are some of those life-changing moments from my life, which revealed something powerful and influenced my perspective as I matured. What are your life-changing moments? When has something occurred that made you realize there was no turning back? Perhaps something happened and you wanted to duck and take cover, but instead, you chose to face it head-on. Many of those life-changing moments happened in my adult years, and I was reminded that I had a choice to respond with the maturity of my years or to revert to acting like a child. I was moving into adulthood, never to return. Some happened when I was younger, and they made me feel like I was leaving my younger self behind. I’ve been through those times myself.Īs I thought about those times that changed my life, I realized that they also changed my perspective. ![]() I work with women who are going through those moments that turn their world upside down, and they are profoundly changed. I’ve been thinking about life-changing moments for a while now.
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