How Many Disruptions Happen Over a Lifetime?

Disruptions Are Inevitable

We’ve been focusing on disruptions for the past several weeks. Career loss. Divorce. Illness. Burnout. Identity shifts.
Not minor bumps. Not quick fixes.

Bruce Feiler calls these major transitions lifequakes—massive personal upheavals that reshape your world.

🔹 According to Feiler’s research, we experience 3 to 5 of them across our lifetime.
🔹 Each one lasts, on average, 5 years from start to integration.
🔹 They break old patterns—and often invite us into something more true.

What makes lifequakes hard isn’t just the external change—it’s the internal disorientation.
We don’t know who we are anymore.

Why This Matters

Most of us weren’t taught how to navigate big personal transitions.
We were taught how to set goals, stay productive, and carry on.

But lifequakes don’t care about your timeline or your calendar.
They ask us to slow down.
To let go.
To listen.
To reimagine.

When we resist them, we suffer more.
When we meet them with curiosity and care, we transform. These are the moments that make us.

And they often more often than you think.

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