Significant psychological change necessarily involves struggling with struggle. Change is often experienced like Gulliver cutting the ties that bind him to the ground in Lilliput. Change is often experienced like freeing oneself from a self-imposed prison cell. Behavior is purposeful. Much of the purpose is unconsciously determined.
Conscious fears mask partial unconscious wishes.
Change is often experienced as if one were on a complex psychological scavenger hunt where each clue is felt to be an increment of change. Change can be transforming, like the process which enables a caterpillar to eventually transform into a butterfly. Change is often experienced like a flower unfolding. Change is moving from compulsively or impulsively reacting to acting from within. Anything worth accomplishing is as difficult as it is rare.