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Spiritual Matters: Liminal Space

About thirteen years ago, I left a long-standing career, giving two months’ notice, to be more available at home and to find something that newly made my heart sing. In the beginning, I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I often figured I had time to decide. Sometimes, however, I felt frazzled and frenzied to quickly figure out what road to take.

This space of being in-between the old and starting something new is called liminal space. It can be an incredibly uncomfortable time where we waft between a calm knowing and a scary space of questioning and getting busy for the sake of busy.

Liminal space can be about a career change, but it can be about so many other things, including an illness (yours or a loved one), a death, a natural catastrophe, a heart’s desire, like wanting to live somewhere else and so on. There are endless possibilities of liminal spaces.