Although change is inevitable, few of us feel ready when it arrives.
 
Even joyful milestones like marriage, parenthood, or retirement can feel surprisingly destabilizing. Add in the disruptions we know might happen but never know when, like a health crisis, job loss, or the death of a loved one, and it’s no wonder we often feel unprepared.
 
This BloomBook is your guide to anticipating and preparing for life’s storms with steadiness and purpose. Drawing from the WellBalance model of Positive Wellbeing, it blends research-backed insights with reflective stories, poems, affirmations, and journaling prompts to help you:
 
Recognize why even “good” changes can feel disruptive.
Build resilience before the storm by diversifying your sources of wellbeing.
Balance the grief of what’s ending with the hope of what’s beginning.
Rediscover your sense of identity and meaning through growth.
Move forward with greater confidence, compassion, and clarity.
 
Inside, you’ll find inspiring practices to help you cultivate readiness, honor both loss and renewal, and step into change as a threshold into your next chapter, rather than a collapse of the life you’ve known.
 
Whether you’re facing a milestone you’ve long anticipated or a disruption you never expected, this BloomBook offers a pathway to transform uncertainty into resilience, and endings into new beginnings.