Hey there, friend—
Have you ever felt like you’re doing “all the right things” on your personal growth journey—but something still feels… off?
Maybe you’ve worked with coaches, journaled for years, learned to sit with your emotions, and cleared out patterns you didn’t even know you had—and yet…
There’s still a quiet ache.
A sense of not-quite-there.
A foggy “what now?” lingering under the surface.
What I’ve seen—over and over again in my two decades of guiding women through inner transformation—is that we move through seasons of inner work.
Not in a straight line.
Not in a checklist.
Not in an organized symphony.
But in cycles. Spirals. Rhythms.
And if you’re unaware of which season you’re in, you’ll likely judge yourself for being “behind”… when you’re actually right where you need to be.
Let’s explore these seasons together—and help you locate yourself inside your own becoming.
✨ Season One: Healing Hidden Wounds
This is the season of deep tending.
You’ve hit a wall with the coping strategies that used to work—achievement, caretaking, perfectionism, emotional avoidance—and suddenly, it’s all breaking open.
You’re feeling your feelings more than ever.
You’re uncovering old memories, family dynamics, nervous system responses.
You’re not just reading about healing—you’re in it.
This season can look like:
Releasing suppressed emotions
Beginning trauma-informed work or shadow integration
Feeling raw, tender, or disoriented
What you need most in this season: safety, compassion, slowness.
This is not the time to rush ahead or force breakthroughs. It’s the time to root down, gather your tools, and let your body and psyche rewire themselves in relationship with your truth.
🌸 Season Two: Reconnection + Identity Recalibration
You’ve done a good amount of healing. You understand your patterns. You’ve even released some old ones.
But now… you’re between worlds.
You no longer relate to the old version of yourself.
You’re outgrowing identities that once defined you—mother, wife, achiever, helper, people-pleaser, good girl.
But you haven’t yet stepped fully into the new you.
This is The Identity Gap—the in-between.
It’s not resistance. It’s not self-sabotage.
It’s the sacred recalibration of who you actually are, without all the layers you’ve been taught to carry.
This season can feel like:
Restlessness or confusion
Loss of ambition or clarity
Questioning everything that used to feel certain
What you need most: Permission to pause. Honest reflection. Safe mirrors.
This is where community and mentorship matter deeply. You’re becoming—but you don’t have to do it alone.
🌟 Season Three: Inner Mastery + Expansion
You’re ready to embody your truth.
But not from the old, performative energy of hustling or proving.
This time, you’re leading from essence.
You want your work, your relationships, your creativity, your decisions to flow from deep alignment—not force.
This season may look like:
A pull toward purpose-aligned leadership or legacy work
Rewriting how you relate to power, pleasure, and personal agency
Navigating expansion without burning out
What you need now: Devotion. Discernment. Structure to hold the bigness of your becoming.
This is the work of mastery—not perfection, but anchored embodiment.
So… What Season Are You In?
Pause. Breathe. Reflect.
Are you tending to pain that’s been buried for years?
Are you floating in the in-between of who you were and who you’re becoming?
Are you preparing to expand into more of who you already are?
None of these are “better” than the others.
Each is essential. Sacred. Necessary.
The key is to honor the season you’re in, rather than forcing yourself into a chapter you’re not ready for.
Want to Explore This More?
This is the kind of conversation we’re having regularly inside my private Facebook group, WITHIN by Tris Thorp—a space I’ve created for women who are walking these exact phases of the journey.
 In May, I’ll be releasing a full masterclass inside the group on The Identity Gap—what it really is, how to know if you’re in it, and how to move through it without collapsing back into old patterns.
Come be part of the conversation now—because your next season starts with seeing where you are today.
👉 Click here to join the group
You’re not moving through this alone.
With grace and truth,
Tris
An International Bestselling Author, Lifestyle and Leadership Coach and speaker, Tris Thorp is one of today’s leading experts in the field of personal growth and leadership development, specializing in emotional healing, women’s empowerment and shadow work.
Having spent a decade traveling the world, being trained by and sharing the stage with Dr. Deepak Chopra in the field of social emotional learning, consciousness and mindfulness-based practices, Tris has a real gift for integrating the ancient spiritual teachings with modern-day science and mindfulness to help people all over the world let go of their past and create an empowered new future.
During her tenure at the Chopra Center, Tris apprenticed under the Chopra Center’s co-founder Dr. David Simon, co-facilitating the Healing the Heart and Emotional Freedom workshops alongside him. Prior to his passing in 2012, Dr. Simon appointed Tris as the person to carry on his teachings in the field of emotional healing. In addition, Tris was fortunate to be mentored by the late Debbie Ford prior to her passing in 2013, which is where she continued her extensive studies of the unconscious mind and concepts of the persona and shadow. After the loss of her two mentors, Tris went on to become certified through the Ford Institute as a coach specializing in Shadow Work and reconciling mental and emotional issues stemming from past experiences. She continues to share the gifts of emotional healing and facilitating this work in the footsteps of her former mentors.
Tris is the International bestselling author of Healing Your Heart: Rewrite Your Story with Awareness and Intention. A guide book to understanding your emotions, how we create our story and workable tools and techniques to heal from the past, Healing Your Heart stewards you through the process of releasing mental and emotional baggage, forgiving yourself and others, setting and enforcing boundaries and consciously communicating your needs in a loving and effective way so you can be who you’re meant to be, do the things you want to do and have all that you deserve to have in this life.
Tris is also the co-author of bestseller Mental and Emotional Release® with Dr. Matt James. Written in a language both professionals and non-professionals can understand, Mental and Emotional Release® offers real life case studies, an overview of MER and its foundation, step by step scripts to follow, and clinical efficacy studies comparing MER to other therapies.
Clearly in her dharma, Tris’s passion and dedication to gently guide people on their inward journey through personal growth is evident in her work as a Lifestyle and Leadership coach, Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release and workshop facilitator. She teaches various courses on leadership development, personal empowerment, social emotional learning and higher states of consciousness – both in online courses and her certification programs, live workshops, VIP retreats and 1-1 clients.
Tris Thorp is Board Certified by the Association of Integrative Psychology as a Trainer of Mental and Emotional Release ®, Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, Hypnosis, and Mental and Emotional Release ®, a Certified Reiki Master, and an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance.
Tris is devoted to inspiring and empowering others to cultivate and maintain mindfulness-based lifestyle practices that lead to greater clarity, purpose and fulfillment. Through one-on-one coaching, online programs and live events, Tris specializes in helping people to fully release negative emotions, limiting beliefs and unconscious patterns, enabling them to make quantum leaps into the life they are truly meant to be living.