{"id":467,"date":"2026-06-09T13:11:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gentlecoach.de\/drei-phasen-uebergang\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T02:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T00:41:00","slug":"drei-phasen-uebergang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gentlecoach.de\/en\/drei-phasen-uebergang\/","title":{"rendered":"The three phases of a transition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new job, a move, the end of a relationship: the outer change is quickly done, the inner arrival takes longer. The adviser William Bridges coined a helpful image for it, three phases almost every transition passes through.<\/p>

1. The ending<\/h2>

Every transition begins with a goodbye, even a chosen one. Something familiar falls away: a role, a setting, a certainty. Feeling this loss is part of it. Whoever doesn’t let the old go won’t arrive in the new.<\/p>

2. The neutral zone<\/h2>

Then comes the uncomfortable in-between time: the old is gone, the new not yet within reach. Many take this vacuum as a sign something is going wrong. Yet it is the heart of every transition. Here the new arises, even if it feels like standstill.<\/p>

3. The new beginning<\/h2>

Only then does the real new thing begin, often quieter than expected. It comes with a growing sense of firm ground again.<\/p>

Why it helps<\/p>

Knowing that the the neutral zone is normal<\/strong> , you bear it better than treating yourself as a failure. Uncertainty then becomes a stretch of the path that passes.<\/p><\/div>

How to begin<\/h2>

Ask yourself: which phase am I in right now? What may end, what is still in the making? The placing alone takes off pressure. More on the topic page<\/a>.<\/p>

General self-help impulses, no substitute for therapy or medical or professional career advice. In crisis: helpline (Germany) 0800 111 0 111.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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