Be Your Own Transition Expert: Part 2 – Accessing Your Inner Wisdom
- carolmastrofini
- Dec 9, 2025
- 4 min read
Editor’s Note: First published in July 2025, this updated version includes new insights and expanded guidance to support you in accessing your inner wisdom during transition.
In Part 1 of this series, we explored Shutting Out the Noise during transition. We looked at recognizing and reducing the external advice, expectations, and internal doubts that make it hard to hear your own voice during times of change.
But quieting the noise is only the first step. Once you create space for your own thoughts, the deeper question appears:
How do you actually access your inner wisdom — the steady, grounded insight that already lives within you?
This post explores what it truly means to access inner wisdom, listen deeply to yourself, and reconnect to what matters most. It’s about hearing the voice that often gets buried beneath fear, expectations, and the pressure to “do it right.”
It’s about moving beyond all the “shoulds” so you can rediscover the clarity that’s uniquely yours.
✨Why Accessing Your Inner Wisdom Matters in Workplace Transition
Transitions stir up uncertainty—questions about your next step, anxieties about the unknown, and even bursts of excitement about possibility. In the middle of all this, your inner wisdom becomes your most reliable guide. It helps you make choices rooted in your values, not in pressure or panic.
But connecting with that wisdom isn’t automatic. It requires intention, quiet, and the willingness to trust that you do know more than you think you do.
The Age of Experts (And Why We Stop Listening to Ourselves)
Trusting your own wisdom is harder than ever in a world where “experts” tell us how to eat, work, lead, parent, and even rest. Everywhere you turn, someone insists they have the formula for success. And the message is always the same:
“Follow my path. I know better.”
After enough exposure, you start to question your own clarity. Your instincts feel too quiet, too unproven, too small to matter.
This constant noise conditions us to outsource our decision-making. We do so even when the so-called “right answer” doesn’t fit our lives. We defer to other people’s strategies—even when they don’t align with our values, goals, or unique circumstances.
Accessing your inner wisdom becomes an act of reclaiming your own authority. Not by rejecting expertise, but by rediscovering your own voice in the midst of it.
A Helpful Lens: David Whyte and the Marriage With Ourselves
Author and poet David Whyte describes three essential “marriages” of life:
1️⃣ Marriage with another
2️⃣ Marriage with work
3️⃣ Marriage with ourselves
He writes that the third, the marriage with ourselves, is the one we most often neglect.
To live a meaningful, aligned life, he says, we must “inhabit” that marriage by listening to the voice we most often overlook: our own.
That is the heart of accessing inner wisdom.
🔍The Value of Finding Your Own Answer
Clients often ask:
“What do you think I should do?”
“What would you do in my situation?”
It’s a natural impulse. We all want certainty. We want someone confident to hand us a path we can trust.
But in coaching, and in life, the best answer is always the one you uncover.
Because it reflects your values. Your goals. Your circumstances. It’s the answer you’ll be willing to stand behind, even as new information emerges or plans shift.
There is no single “correct” answer for big transitions. There is only the answer that aligns with who you are today and evolves with you tomorrow.
Accessing your inner wisdom is what makes that clarity possible.
⏭️How to Begin Accessing Your Inner Wisdom
Even though you know yourself better than anyone else ever could, hearing your own clarity often requires intentional space.
Here are simple starting points:
✅Pause to Reflect
Step back from input—no scrolling, no asking for opinions. Just sit quietly with your own thoughts. Even a few minutes a day creates enough stillness for your inner wisdom to surface.
✅Focus on What Truly Matters
Ask yourself: “What do I want to prioritize in this transition?” Write down themes that come up—energy, balance, growth, stability, meaning.
✅Look Back to Move Forward
Think about a past transition you handled well. What strengths did you rely on? What part of you knew what to do?
These small practices help you reconnect to the insight you already have.
📍How Guided Exploration Helps You Access Inner Wisdom
Self-reflection is powerful but sometimes you need deeper structure and support.
That’s where Guided Exploration coaching comes in.
A coach helps you:
✔️ Clarify What You Truly Want
Through questions tailored to your unique situation, you uncover values and priorities you may not have named yet.
✔️ Create a Focused, Supportive Space
This dedicated, judgment-free space amplifies your inner wisdom. It becomes easier to hear yourself when the noise is filtered out.
✔️ Turn Insight Into Aligned Action
Coaching helps you translate “I think this matters” into “Here’s what I’m going to do next.”
Guided Exploration strengthens your ability to trust your inner wisdom and to take the next step with confidence.
🗝️Your Inner Wisdom Is Your Greatest Resource
Accessing your inner wisdom isn’t about finding the one perfect answer. It’s about uncovering what’s right for you.
With the right tools and support, workplace transitions become moments of clarity rather than confusion. They become opportunities for alignment, growth, and renewed direction.
You already have the insight you need. You’re learning how to hear it.
👣Take the Next Step Toward Clarity
If you’re ready to move from uncertainty to grounded confidence, a Free 15-minute consultation is a great place to start.
Together, we’ll explore what your transition is asking of you and how to reconnect with the wisdom you already carry.
👉 Schedule your consultation here.
What’s Next: Trusting Your Expertise
Now that you’ve explored how to access your inner wisdom, the next step is learning how to trust it.
Stay tuned for Be Your Own Transition Expert Part 3: Trusting Your Expertise, where we’ll explore how to overcome self-doubt and stay grounded in your decisions.
