Gemma Spake

Hello everybody, I'm Gemma Spake and welcome back to The Psychology of Your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello everybody, welcome back to the show, welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we of course break down the psychology of your 20s.

Today let's talk about change, let's talk about transitional periods, let's talk about

growth, progress, like the huge shifts that we experience in our 20s.

These moments that are on like the precipice of something new feel very exciting, they feel very romantic, they feel very thrilling.

But let's be honest, change is one of those things that I think sounds super fun in theory, but is sometimes absolutely horrible and painful in practice.

In fact, at times, I think it really sucks.

And it has us really wishing that we'd stayed the same.

We all have ambitions for kind of like the ways we like to change our lives or like to live our lives.

We want a new job.

We want to move to a new city.

We want better friendships.

Whatever it is that's currently on your goal list.

It's funny that often the second like a real opportunity to enact that occurs or something

to make change happen appears, we shrink and we find a lot of reasons not to do it.

We don't feel prepared.

We suddenly find ourselves sabotaging our habits and our momentum.

We convince ourselves we can't right when we're actually about to.

I was actually speaking to a friend about this the other day who has like this terrible habit