Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.