Exploring our perceptions is a great thing, and it can leaves us feeling vulnerable as old ways drop away and it takes time for the new ways that evolve to feel comfortable and familiar. I agree that it is a time of feeling especially vulnerable, 'naked', and it's good to talk about it when it happens. It's possible to slow the pace. Sometimes I've requested we slow the pace just because I'm in a place that I like, and I want to stay there a while. Maybe it's a need, too!