The Space I Had. The Space I’m Creating.
Field Notes from the Liminal – Entry 06
This one’s personal. Before I tell you what I’m building next, I need to tell you about what I went through to get here.
There’s something new I’m building.
But before I tell you about it, I want to share a bit of the story behind it.
Because this didn’t come out of a brainstorm.
It came out of a season that nearly unraveled me.
There was no roadmap.
No five-step plan.
Just the slow, unraveling realization that something I had built, something I had poured myself into, was coming to an end.
At first, I didn’t have words for it.
Just a tightness in my chest. A persistent fatigue.
A knowing in my gut I kept trying to logic my way out of.
I didn’t need advice.
What I needed were people who could sit in the fog with me.
People who weren’t afraid of silence, or of the time it took for words to surface.
And somehow, I had that.
A small handful of people who didn’t try to save me or steer me.
They asked the right questions, then waited - sometimes days, sometimes weeks - for the answers.
They reflected what they saw with compassion and precision.
They held space without trying to fill it.
They didn’t flinch when I said, “I think I’m done.”
And they helped me stay with that truth, even when everything in me wanted to run.
Their presence helped set a tone that allowed me to navigate this transition with integrity, truth, and love.
I look back now and realize how rare that was.
How necessary it was.
Because when you’re that close to the thing you’ve built…
When your identity is braided so tightly into the work…
You lose your ability to see clearly.
You mistake fear for wisdom.
Urgency for clarity.
You start grasping for resolution - any resolution.
And the people around you?
They make all the difference.
That’s why I’m creating something new.
Because some leaders don’t have a circle like that.
Some are navigating the middle alone.
Liminal Lab is a six-month space for leaders in transition.
A place to be seen clearly, even when you can’t see yourself.
To be held with honesty and care.
To be reminded that you don’t have to rush.
And that you’re not the only one in the fog.
I’ll be sharing the full details next week.
If this already hits close, trust that.
You don’t have to do this alone.