Why Career Pivots Sometimes Come With a Surprising Side Effect—Grief
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        While they are often exciting and rewarding, career pivots—like any significant life transition—can also bring up feelings of grief.
The act of leaving behind an old identify, coworkers, and familiar structures and routines is a loss, even if we're moving on to something that we are excited about and ready for.
In this episode Shelley McIntyre, who coaches midlife professionals interested in leaving corporate life, shares some of the different ways that grief can surface when making a career change, including a loss of identify, feeling adrift and scattered in the transition phase, loneliness, and more.
Shelley also happens to be trained as a grief coach and shares different strategies to help work through the feelings and experiences of loss that might arise during a career reinvention.
For more on Shelley and Burn the Map, check out her website.