@JustJamie
I hear what youâre sayingâthat youâre stuckâand I have a different perspective. I believe you are in the wilderness, and youâre finding your way through it to what comes next, both with your podcast and your life.
This is to be expected. I have gone through a divorce and know that it took more energy than I thought I had. I donât have children so have never married off a son, but believe that takes a lot of energy as well. Not so much the wedding, but the recalibration of the relationship.
A friend of mine who is a single parent went into a clinical depression after her two sons left home. âWho am I now?â was the question she asked. My friend found her way into her answerâshe is a partner in a new relationship and she is a writer.
With your divorce and the change with your son, you may be asking yourself, âWho am I now?â I am sure of part of the answer: You are a podcaster. If you werenât you wouldnât care so much. You would let your podcast wither and die. And if your heart winced when you read those words, you know for sure.
I wrote a couple of things for myself that may be helpful for you. Or maybe not. If not, then my advice is: Ignore! Ignore! Ignore! You are making your own way on your new path.
Vessel of Affection: Helps us understand how our âlove waterlineâ changes and what we might do to restore our waterline. I wrote this after my husband died and I sold our house and gave away our dog. More than a decade later, it still makes sense to me.
Related to life transitions, I wrote a series of blog posts about that, based on the work of William Bridges. I love thinking of the Neutral Zone as a swamp, because it sucks. It sucks emotionally and the mud of a swamp sucks at our boots as we try to walk, sometimes pulls them right off our feet.
Keep going, Jamie. One step at a time. Even if sometimes you have to stop to put a boot back on.
@craigconstantine @brucedevereux @steveh @lovelace
