Stuck

3 Why Do I Get Stuck?

DOI: 10.4324/9781003157458-3

Attachment … is the result of the activity of behavioral systems that have a continuing set goal, that of maintaining a specified relationship.

John Bowlby¹

[There is] … a particular circumscribed form of melancholia that we often experience when individuals, organizations, or belief systems that we lean on or are dependent on for emotional support are withdrawn from us.

Jerry Harvey²

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

C.S. Lewis

Jenna moved to Washington, DC in October of 2018 after finishing graduate school. She was like many of the people who joined her consulting company – she was new to the company, new to the industry, and new to the area. On her first day of orientation, ...