5 Ways To Thrive Through Life Transition

In this episode Krista will share with you her 5 ways that helped her and her family make the huge transition from moving from Canada to Costa Rica over the past 3.5 years. Life is always changing—whether we want it to or not. From big shifts like career changes, relationships, and loss, to the smaller shifts in our daily routines, transitions can feel overwhelming. I share practical tips and mindset shifts to help you navigate these changes with more ease, self-trust, and resilience. By learning to surrender, set boundaries, and regulate your nervous system, you can move through life’s ups and downs with greater peace and confidence. Let’s walk this journey together.

Transcript

Okay,

We are back with another insight timer for y'all.

Grab your journal,

Grab your pen,

You are going to want to take notes on this one.

Today I want to give you ways to move through life transitions.

And I'm so excited to share this with you excited and also know this that I am continually working on this myself.

I'm continually daily learning how to move through transitions,

Whether it is a chosen life transition,

Or it's an unexpected one.

There's always things we can do to help us move through this.

I want to share just a little bit before I get started on the tips of why I think it's so important and why I'm coming to you with this experience,

Why I'm coming to you with this knowledge.

Three and a half years ago,

We made the huge decision to sell every single thing we possibly own in Calgary,

Alberta,

Canada is where my family and I lived.

We sold everything and moved to Costa Rica with three suitcases.

I kept maybe a mix master and we kept some old photo albums at my sister's place.

That's it.

This transition was chosen.

We wanted to do this.

This is something that we go,

We had thought about it for a couple years.

We journal about it.

We'd visioned it.

We had,

You know,

Made this into our goal of we're moving to Costa Rica,

Not knowing the full spectrum of what this looked like.

Let's be clear that today,

Three and a half years later,

I'm still working on these tips that I'm going to give you.

But I will say no matter what the transition is that you're going through,

No matter what it is,

Whether you have chosen to do it,

Maybe it's a career change.

Maybe a relationship has really taken a turn.

Maybe you became a new parent.

Health challenge.

Maybe you relocated like I did and you've moved,

Maybe not countries,

But houses.

Possibly it's not even something that big.

Change looks different for all of us and transitions in life look different for every single one of us,

No matter who we are.

This is the thing with life.

It's 100% guaranteed going to keep on changing,

Right?

Maybe you're changing your daily habits.

Maybe you've rearranged your house and it looks differently and your bedroom's different.

You're like,

I don't even know if I like this.

You're trying out maybe a new hobby or a new skill.

We are always going through change.

So this insight timer,

I want to share with you a few things that have completely helped me and I know will help you because it is what I help my clients deal with.

And when they're walking through this transition of their own.

And the first one that I want to get right into is giving yourself permission to feel.

I cannot tell you how many times I have walked the beach in Costa Rica.

I'm coming at you from Costa Rica right now,

Balling my eyes out.

I miss my family up in Canada.

I miss the mountains.

There's so many times that I'm like,

Oh,

And I'm surrounded by this beauty here.

But living here is very different than a holiday for two weeks.

And it's something I've had to completely give myself permission to be.

And this is what I want to tell you.

Experience it all.

Give yourself permission to feel this mixed emotions.

Maybe you're feeling a grief of saying goodbye to something that something's ending.

And in the same breath,

You feel super excited for what's about to unfold.

And that's,

That's how I feel.

Maybe you're a bit scared.

Or maybe you feel this absolute feeling of relief.

A weight has been lifted off your shoulders.

Don't suppress that stuff.

Acknowledge it.

Process those feelings out.

Journal about them.

Talking it out with a trusted friend and someone that makes you feel safe.

Hiring a therapist,

A coach.

All of that is a way to give yourself permission to feel,

Feel all the things that are going on.

So many times we think we can just do this on our own.

We can just fight through it.

And I fall back to that often.

I'm like,

I got this.

Or what right do I have to complain?

Look at where I am.

What right do I have to feel sad,

Down,

Lonely?

Not full of purpose.

Look where I am.

I'm surrounded by ocean and beauty and sunshine.

And you get to feel whatever it is that you're feeling.

So number one is give yourself permission to feel whatever it is when you're in the midst of transition.

The number two thing that has been a game changer and a lifesaver is find your anchor.

Grounding practices and routine have saved my life in more ways and in more often than I can even think of.

Find your routine.

When we moved down here three and a half years ago,

I have a thriving online coaching practice.

And the one thing that did not change was that.

That was the one thing that kept going.

We moved down here on a Friday.

Monday morning,

I had a call at 10 o'clock.

Wednesday morning,

I had three calls.

Friday,

I had this.

Find your anchors.

My morning walks were non-negotiable.

They still are.

Breathwork.

Daily gratitude practice.

Sometimes it was hard to do these because there were some days I was like,

I can't find anything I'm grateful for right now.

I'm so sad.

I'm so down.

I don't even know what I'm grateful for.

Okay,

I'm grateful for the sun coming in.

Find them.

The reason why it's so important to find your anchors and what works for you,

Maybe it's going to the gym.

Maybe it's taking time out of your day and meditating.

Maybe it's having that phone call.

Is it reminds you that while the shifts are happening in your life,

You still have these constants to rely on.

You get to decide.

You get to implement them.

You get to have them in your life.

So find those anchors that work for you and keep doing them.

I have fallen off the wagon more times than I can tell you in the last three and a half years of not doing them,

Of not having these anchors,

Of not relying on them.

And it throws me into a tailspin.

I find myself caught up in the tornado and the woe is me and,

Oh man,

Life is so hard down here and I miss all my people and blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah,

Blah.

But when I get these anchors,

When I rely back onto my doing these recordings,

Journaling,

My breathwork,

My meditation,

My yoga,

My morning walks,

It's a game changer.

So find your anchors through the transition that you're going through.

What is something,

What is one or two things that you can do on the daily to help you stay grounded?

This one's a tough one,

But I also have realized when I embrace and when we can embrace the in-between,

When we can embrace the straddling,

When we can just surrender to what is in this moment of going not quite there,

Not quite here.

I half live in Canada,

I half live in Costa Rica.

I am not quite done this job,

But I'm entering into this job.

The room is a total disaster because I want the bed over there and it's not quite there yet and this is a disgusting mess.

When you can embrace the in-between,

This is where the growth is happening,

The healing,

The clarity.

You know how it's often said it needs to get worse before it gets better?

Things often get worse before it gets better.

It's true even in transition,

Sometimes they get worse before they get better.

Sometimes that whole room needs to be torn apart and then put back together.

The pantry,

You have to take everything out and it's a pile of disgusting mess on the floor and then you slowly put it all back together.

We ripped the rug out from underneath our life and moved down to Costa Rica and it's been a tough transition,

But we're slowly piecing things back together.

We're building an Airbnb down here.

This leads me to my number four,

Stay connected to your why.

So when you can look in,

When you can stay focused,

Sorry,

When you can embrace the middle,

The straddling,

The in-between stage.

Oh,

This is so beautiful.

I need this for myself right now.

So thank you for listening and being here.

When we can stay connected to that middle,

That in-between,

We can see that there was a beginning and there is an ending.

I see the end,

Simplicity,

The pantry.

We can see what it looks like at the end when everything's back in there all nice.

When our sock drawer is going to be all nice.

When the painting on the wall is going to be all finished,

But the middle is a little messy,

A little unknown.

We're building an Airbnb.

We've got a little piece of property down here.

We bought some land and we're building Airbnb.

We're building two or three casinos down here to rent out.

Our why is the vision at the end to have income coming in and rent these out.

Our why is to have passive income coming for retirement.

This is our why we're looking way down the road.

Whether you are navigating a career shift,

Relationship,

Personal transformation,

Whatever that is for you,

What truly matters to you?

What kind of life are you creating?

When you can answer these,

They will guide your next steps.

In this transition that you're doing,

I'm not saying any of this is easy.

Don't hear me saying that.

I am saying it is possible and this is life.

We're always transitioning.

When we can implement some of these tools and these methods that work,

It will help us move along a bit smoother.

Trust the process.

Number five that I have written down here is trust the process.

I have a Bible verse written on my clavicle,

My shoulder.

And it says,

For I know the plans I have for you.

And I grew up in a very religious home and I have turned more spiritual and I have a relationship.

I don't talk about it much because it's between me and God,

But I trust the process.

And when we can lean into the process,

Even when things feel chaotic,

When things feel out of control,

Wherever you're at right now,

I just feel like somebody needs to hear this in this exact moment while I'm saying this.

You've navigated change before.

You'll do it again.

You've navigated rough patches in your life before.

You can do it again and trust the process as messy and as uncertain and as unclear as it may seem.

Lean into it,

Knowing there's a bigger plan ahead for you.

And we can take these small steps every single day.

Some days you guys down here,

I will lay in bed in the morning and I'm like,

Okay,

What am I doing today?

Okay,

Get up,

Get your shoes on and go for your walk because you know that's what clears your head.

Do that one thing.

After that,

We'll deal with what comes next.

And then after that,

We'll deal with what comes next.

So I want to encourage you,

I want to encourage you that whatever transition you're going through in life,

You've got this.

Give yourself permission to feel all the things,

Whether one day you're crying,

The next day you're super excited,

Whether the next day you're feeling angry and mad and upset.

And why did I do this?

And what was my,

What was I thinking?

And then ground back into your why.

Find your anchors.

Stay in the moment of the in between of knowing it's not going to be forever.

This is what it is for now.

Nothing lasts good nor bad.

Nothing lasts.

Everything is temporary.

Thank you guys so much for being here.

And I want to wish you a fantastic day.

And until next time.