Radio Headspace The Mindful Way to Navigate Change When You Feel Alone
Oct 15, 2025
Change can feel disorienting, leaving us caught between who we were and who we're becoming. Mindfulness plays a vital role in honoring this sacred pause, helping to soften feelings of loneliness. The host shares personal insights on how quitting drinking exposed hidden identity shifts and the value of staying present in transitions. Practical mindfulness techniques are also discussed, encouraging listeners to embrace the pause, listen to their loneliness, and find grounding in the simple things around them.
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The Sacred Pause Of Liminality
- Change often arrives with confusion, tenderness, and loneliness rather than clarity.
- Liminality is the pause between no longer and not yet that feels untethered but matters deeply.
Growth Happens In The In-Between
- The in-between isn't empty; it's a sacred space where deep healing and root-growing happen.
- Staying with that space allows growth before you bloom into the next version of yourself.
Quitting Drinking Changed Her Social World
- Dora describes quitting drinking and how her social life shifted almost overnight, leaving people to fade out.
- She used walks, journaling, and cooking to sit with the change and build a new relationship with herself.