"I'm the same person, and my life will go back to being the way it was." "This is just a blip," we tell ourselves when circumstances rock our world. Most people fight like crazy to keep their identities from dissolving. It's the time when we lose our identity and are left temporarily formless: person soup. The first phase of change is the scariest, especially because we aren't taught to expect it. The strategies for dealing with change depend on the phase you're experiencing. You'll go through these phases, more or less in order, after any major change catalyst (falling in love or breaking up, getting or losing a job, having children or emptying the nest, etc.). Psychological metamorphosis has four phases. The best way to minimize trauma is to understand the process. I don't know if this is emotionally stressful for caterpillars, but for humans it can be hell on wheels. You may change marital status, become a parent, switch careers, get sick, win the lottery.Īny transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. But even after you're all grown up, your identity isn't fixed. You've probably already changed from baby to child to adolescent to adult-these are obvious, well-recognized stages in the life cycle. All of us will experience metamorphosis several times during our lives, exchanging one identity for another. Humans do it, too-not physically but psychologically. If you've ever been through a major life transition, this may sound familiar. But in that glop are certain cells, called imago cells, that contain the DNA-coded instructions for turning bug soup into a delicate, winged creature-the angel of the dead caterpillar. If you were to look inside the cocoon early on, you'd find nothing but a puddle of glop. In fact, the first thing caterpillars do in their cocoons is shed their skin, leaving a soft, rubbery chrysalis. I figured if I were to cut open a cocoon, I'd find a butterfly-ish caterpillar, or a caterpillar-ish butterfly, depending on how far things had progressed. I assumed they weave cocoons, then sit inside growing six long legs, four wings, and so on. I used to think I knew how some caterpillars become butterflies.
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