What do I do when a life transition forces me to question everything I believed?

This is the hardest part of any real transition, and Sor Juana lived it. She entered the convent partly to pursue intellectual life, but the institution's rules about what women could know and say eventually forced her to question her own complicity, her safety, her ethics. That's when things get dangerous—not in a physical way necessarily, but intellectually, spiritually. When a transition cracks your worldview open, you have options: you can slam it shut again and pretend nothing changed. You can sit in the discomfort and actually think. The second one is harder and necessary. If you're in a new job and realizing the values you thought the organization had are actually corrupt—that's a belief crisis. If you're moving into a community and seeing systemic inequities you never noticed before—that's a belief crisis. If you're in a relationship that's forcing you to admit you've accepted things you shouldn't have—that's a belief crisis. Don't rush to resolve it. The questioning itself is the work. Sor Juana kept questioning even when it cost her. She wrote, she argued, she refused easy answers. You don't have to have new beliefs figured out yet. You just have to stay honest about what you're no longer willing to believe. That's enough. That's everything.