How to Deal With Challenges in Transition!
Life is existential anxiety—Dr. Z explains why challenges are inevitable, why some feel like impossible mountains, and why embracing them is the only way to change.
Some challenges are easy—just walking through a door. Others feel like climbing a massive mountain you've never climbed before, carrying heavy equipment on your back (your family relationships, partner, career, conservative state you live in, safety concerns). You look up from the bottom wondering how the hell you'll conquer it.
Here's what you forget: you've already overcome tremendous challenges. If you survived high school, if you're paying bills, if you lived with dysphoria for years—you've already climbed mountains without realizing it. You're much stronger than you think.
The phrase that changes everything: What doesn't challenge you doesn't change you. Change is medicine. It's what you need to better yourself and get closer to who you're truly meant to be. We're born as beautiful holistic clay, get blasted into fragments, and the point of life is collecting those fragmented pieces to rebuild ourselves.
Watch to find out why Western culture teaches us to avoid challenges instead of confronting them, why your current mountain is actually one you've climbed before in different contexts, and how to embrace challenges as opportunities for growth.
