“It’s crazy for me to\u00a0talk about life pivots without acknowledging that this is the biggest of them all,” Jessica said.<\/p>\n
“We had that 10 years together and had just assumed that there was the future forever. So the extent to which that has shaped me is just extraordinary.”<\/p>\n
For Jessica, the grief was incomprehensible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I would never have imagined it and there’s no silver lining\u2026 there’s absolutely nothing that makes it okay in any way,” she said.<\/p>\n
“But that clich\u00e9 around being grateful and leaning into the good things for me is just so powerful.<\/p>\n
“Just realising you have to take life and really grab it and squeeze everything good it gives you, ’cause you just don’t know what’s around the corner.”<\/p>\n
Grief, said Jessica, was like “recalibrating a compass.” And work became her anchor. <\/p>\n
“That gave me some stability and routine through the period where I was re-orientating,” she said.<\/p>\n
These days, Jessica works as a management consultant for Deloitte; a job she’d held for more than seven years.<\/p>\n
Listen to the full episode of The Pivot below. Post continues afterwards.<\/p>\n
Entering the rat race came with an adjustment period, but Jessica treated it like a voyage.<\/p>\n
“The first few weeks of a sea voyage are often going to be very tough,” she said. “You might be a bit seasick and getting your sea legs, getting used to bad sleep cycles\u2026\u00a0 And I think I probably did approach starting at Deloitte with that same mentality of that it’s going to be a tough first few months\u2026 the important thing is it’s going to get better.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It’s crazy for me to\u00a0talk about life pivots without acknowledging that this is the biggest of them all,”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-263635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}