5 INCREDIBLE THINGS I'M LEARNING IN THE IN-BETWEEN

I've been thinking lately about liminal periods - that space in between when we are waiting for something to happen, shift or unfold.

- WRITTEN BY SHERRY PARKS

It's described as the period when one is neither fully in the previous state nor fully in the next. There is uncertainty, change, and potential growth during these periods.

I feel like I'm in one of these phases with my business. I’m still coaching and love it, and there is still a part of me that believes something new is coming. My coach says there are three seasons in life: Creation, Maintenance, and Destruction. We create something fabulous, then we maintain it, and then it gets destroyed—ready for something new. I feel like I'm in a destruction phase right now with my business. Not that I’m quitting coaching, just that I’m preparing for something new to be born (created) and to do that, what was currently present needs to be set aside.

As I sit here with this phase of my business, I've been reflecting on other times in life when I've felt this same kind of in-between — times when the ground beneath me was shifting, and I wasn’t sure what would come next.

First, was the period when my mom was sick with cancer. She was in that phase where she'd quit treatments, and we weren’t sure what was going to happen. I mean, we knew what the doctors said, and we also knew that miracles could happen, and the sheer will of a person impacts all of it.

Both my sister and I felt frozen in time. Like we couldn't move forward or back. We were suspended in the in-between — awkward, uncertain, and unable to move forward or back.

More recently, there is a health diagnosis that I've gotten. One where there are a lot of questions and waiting. The initial lab test came back abnormal. The doctor then wanted to do a biopsy, but didn’t find anything to biopsy. Now, I'm waiting for the one-year mark to get the original test done again.