04/06/2026
Liminal Space: There is a quiet stage of life that does not have a clear name. It returns every now and then. It is the space between who you were and the life you are building, but have not fully arrived to yet.
From the outside, it can look like uncertainty. Too many moves, too many ideas, too many changes, too many questions. From the inside, it often feels like standing in the middle of your own forest, slowly deciding what stays, what goes, what gets decomposed, and what you want to build anew with your own roots.
In this stage, you may find yourself thinking about home more deeply. Not just where you live, but where you return to. Where your things live. Where your mind can rest. Where your creativity can spread out. Where you can hear yourself rest, breathe, feel, and think. Home becomes less about location and more about permission to exist in your own awareness, time, and space.
You may also start to realize that many of the decisions in front of you are not really about jobs, cities, or relationships. They are about how you want to live. How much space you need. How much independence you need. How much quiet you need. How much movement you need. How much meaning you need in your work. How much beauty you want around you. How often you want to start over. How often you want to return.
This stage can feel confusing because there is no clear path and no one can tell you what the right answer is. You are no longer following a map. You are slowly drawing one, sometimes in pencil, sometimes in ink, sometimes erasing entire sections and starting again.
Trust that as you create, destroy, and redesign within this space, nothing has gone amiss outside of you. You are not late. You are not lost. You are in the part of life where you begin to build a life that actually fits your soul.
With Intention, Sarafina
