Change. Who likes it?

June 05, 2024•1 min read

Not me! I tend to feel, as do many of us, stupid, incompetent, awkward, irritated, annoyed, and definitely fearful when change shows up at my door.

When I am the target of the change? I might as well be standing nekkid in the square without anything to cover me up. It’s just miserable at first.

On the other hand, if I am the agent or the initiator of the change, I feel a little to a lot better. I’m in charge of it, so I have more control. I get to make the choices, I get to change them, and I have less fear.

The only time I like change is when I choose it, I plan it, and it goes the way I want it to. Then I get excited, and I feel optimistic and hopeful about the outcome.

How about you? How are you at “swimming upstream”?

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Elizabeth Power

Elizabeth Power, M. Ed., CEO of EPower & Associates, Inc. , is a sought-after speaker, facilitator, and consultant. EPower & Associates is the parent organization for The Trauma Informed Academy(r). "All we do is help people with change, resilience and self-care, and learning to live trauma responsively. And everything is done from the trauma-informed perspective," she says. "Even courses directly about working with trauma are about change."

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