The Pivot journal
Thoughts and perspectives on outgrowing what once fit, navigating change, and finding your way forward.
5 Signs You're Outgrowing the Career You Built
We tend to talk about career change as if something has to go visibly wrong before we're allowed to want something different. But careers, like the rest of a life, evolve with the person living them.
Why "I Don't Know What I Want to Do Next" Doesn't Mean You're Lost
There's a quiet cultural expectation that adulthood is when you finally figure yourself out, choose the education, choose the career, build the life, and eventually just know. Know what you want, who you are, where you're headed. But identity doesn't actually work that way.
When Success Stops Feeling Like Success
You can genuinely achieve the thing you spent years working toward and feel strangely little from it, sometimes even trapped. That doesn't mean you were wrong to want it. The promotion may have represented recognition at a time when being recognised mattered enormously to you.
The Difference Between a Career You've Outgrown and One You're Just Burnt Out In
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
When Your Career Doesn't Fit the Person You're Becoming
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
How to Tell If You're Stuck or Just in the In-Between
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Rebuilding Self-Trust When Your Life No Longer Fits
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Why Do We Grieve the Life We've Already Outgrown?
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
When Your Life No Longer Fits: Navigating Relationships Through Change
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Feeling Left Behind During the In-Between — And What to Do With It
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
5 Signs You're Outgrowing the Life You Built
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Wanting Your Old Life Back Doesn't Mean You Made a Mistake
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Slowness Is Not a Problem During the In-Between — Here's Why
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Why Clarity Comes and Goes During The In-Between
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
Why You Can’t Force a Decision When You’re in the In-Between
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.
What Is the In-Between?
When your life starts to shift, it can be difficult to understand what’s happening. Explore the different phases of change, from feeling that something is different to letting go, moving through the in-between, and finding your way forward.