✨ Navigating Life’s WTFH Moments: Embracing New Beginnings
In raising young children, we parents are told to give them choices, but only choices of behaviors we want them to take. You don’t ask your four year old, “Do you want to take a bath?” but you do offer them, “Do you want to walk to the bathtub, or do you want me to carry you there?”
In grown up life, change is rarely a choice we get to make for ourselves. Circumstances happen to us - aging, changes in relationships, losses of freedom, jobs, control. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus proclaimed, “The only constant in life is change.”
Sometimes change arrives at us all at once, in an overwhelming way and we’re forced to navigate uncharted territory, which can feel utterly isolating when everyone around us is not focused on or not overwhelmed like you are. We might ask ourselves, “Where to from here?” or in a less polished moment, “What the f%#*ing hell?!”
The most important message for you in these WTFH moments is this: you are not alone.
You are not the first person to have made this transition. You are not the last. Although your journey and situation are unique, you have the gift of community to lean on. It may be hard to see the people who will get you through it, but they exist.
The teacher in Ecclesiastes put it like this:
“It’s better to have a partner than go it alone.
Share the work, share the wealth.
And if one falls down, the other helps,
But if there’s no one to help, tough!” (4:9-10, The Message)
That’s why I put together a package of group WTFH coaching.
Because if you have to go through it, it’s better to do it with others.
In this six week group coaching experience, you’ll be cared for in community with myself and 6-8 others. In six, 90 minute videoconferencing sessions, you’ll grow through shared updates and collective wisdom, and learn the juicy tactics for getting through transition moments to embrace what new life is on the other side of them.
Each session’s structure will look like this: Brief check in and opening ritual for the first 20 minutes, then 45 minutes of deep diving on a relevant spiritual wayfinding topic, then 20 minutes of exploring this topic together in a group discussion and 5 minute sending ritual.
Some topics covered in WTFH coaching: Elaine’s signature spiritual wayfinding process that starts with accessing joy in hard times, names our losses along the way, and looks to the horizon for what new life looks like and how to embrace it.
You don’t have to navigate this hard thing alone. Community is a powerful place to explore, be honest and vulnerable, uncover hidden baggage and burdens you didn’t even realize were holding you back. Between our time together, we’ll share a private text community where gentle updates and thoughts can flow, keeping us close along the way.
“When you are finished changing, you are finished”
You will be in a better place than you started after completing this six week WTFH experience. You will recover a sense of meaning, purpose, and joy even in a transformative season of your life. You will be spiritually stronger and hardier for facing life’s ups and downs.
If you’re ready to join the next WTFH spiritual wayfinding group experience, register here. I can’t wait to journey with you through to what new life awaits you on the other side of this hard thing.
