You don't have to rush through life's transitions…
Moving Through the In-Between
"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
-Joseph Campbell
The life that is waiting for us usually requires passing through something first. Not around it. Not over it. Through it.
Most of us were never taught to do that well. We live in a culture that celebrates doing more, becoming more, moving faster, and quietly penalizes anyone who slows down long enough to feel the weight of what's changing. We're wired for resolution, rewarded for resilience, and judged for taking too long. So when life shifts beneath us, we rush… past the grief, past the uncertainty, past the very questions that could reshape us.
And, the transitions we skip don't disappear.
They accumulate. The endings we don't honor, the grief we don't allow, the questions we outrun… they follow us into the next chapter, and the one after that.
I know this firsthand. For years, frequent moves made me efficient at starting over, packing up, showing up, beginning again. I moved from one chapter to the next without pausing to grieve what I was leaving, or even to name it. I wasn't completing anything. I was escaping the in-between by staying in motion.
Then one transition refused to be rushed. What felt like loss slowly became an opening… to live with more intention, more honesty, and a clearer sense of who I was becoming.
That work continues. And it's better shared.
Life's transitions, chosen and unchosen, aren't detours from our story. They are our story. And the people who navigate them most meaningfully aren't the ones who move on fastest. They're the ones who pause long enough to grieve what's ending, sift through what still holds meaning, and wait, sometimes uncomfortably, for new direction to emerge.
That in-between space is the most important place you'll ever stand.
Whether you're facing a career pivot, a relationship ending, a health reckoning, retirement, or simply the sense that the life you've been living no longer quite fits, the in-between deserves more than a quick pivot. The transitions we honor tend to write better chapters than the ones we simply survive.
Wendy Williams and I invite you to join us in a six-week What Now? Life Transitions Circle beginning April 6. This Circle is a six-week experience for people ready to move through life transitions with more depth and less self-abandonment.
Together, we'll explore:
What is this transition asking me to release, and what still belongs to me?
What have I been carrying without realizing it?
What wants to emerge, if I give it space?
This is not a program for rushing through hard things. It's a circle for moving through them with intention and grace.
If you're somewhere in a life transition, you don't have to navigate it alone.
Learn more and reserve your spot.
"We are not the one story we tell about ourselves. We are all the stories we tell."
— Bruce Feiler, Life Is in the Transitions
