Standing in a New Doorway: Navigating Transitions in Life

Episode 37

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I’ve been reflecting on the transition I am in the middle of at the moment from identifying as a visual artist and moving into identifying as a healing artist and all of the stickiness that is coming up. I share some thoughts and a poem I wrote about transitions in my life called, "Standing in a New Doorway"which I read out loud on the episode of the podcast. I find poetry helps me process my feelings a lot.

Standing in a New Doorway

by Emma Freeman

I find myself standing in a new doorway yet again

I glance over the threshold into the room I don’t know

then back across to the familiar, to the safe, to the known

feeling its magnetic pull on my whole being

to sink back into the comfortable and predictable

A sound from across the way grabs my attention

I try to catch a glimpse but it is hidden away

requiring my full presence to reveal itself

The new room is unfamiliar and uncomfortable

Its crevices and cracks are strangers

There are no well worn grooves in the floorboards

or deep indents in the chairs

But somehow, in some way

something feels familiar there too

like it is already part of me

A whisper from deep inside flows to my surface

and I feel it take shape as goosebumps on my skin

reminding me it is time to trust again

time for vulnerable courage again

time to enter what I don’t know again

to discover what I need to know again

So I take a deep breath

glance back over my shoulder

put one tentative foot in front of the other

and slowly step across the threshold…