Liang Liao, Ph.D. MBA
Managing life transitions and their impact is one of the most difficult challenges we encounter. I describe below a writing activity that I’ve found helpful as I cope with several major life changes that took place the past two and a half years.
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It’s been four weeks since M was born. I cried the moment when she came into the world, her tiny body lying on P’s chest, her dark eyes looked expectantly at P. We had been expecting her for nine months, wondering what she would look like and worrying constantly if she was healthy. The anxiety was instantly washed away by a wave of joy and awe the moment we saw her beautiful face and delicate features. She looked so fragile, yet magnificent – a masterpiece created by mother nature, built from all but a cell from P and another from me. In that instant I knew that my life would be changed forever by an unbreakable bond between me and this being.
P and I just returned from a three-day babymoon vacation in Lake Tahoe. Returning home, I experienced a sadness that was absent from our previous get-aways. I felt a deep and tender connected-ness to P. Being pregnant, she is vulnerable in the ways she moves, walking a step slower and waddling slightly from side-to-side. Her smiles and laughters also carried forth an effusiveness and melodious intonation that were child-like. I wanted to hold her and protect her. It was easy to feel her love, and to love her.
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