Language helps us understand things. The more precise our language, the more clearly we can see what we're experiencing and the less alone we feel in it.

 

Over the last few weeks, many people I’ve been working with have described this feeling of being in between change. Not in the past, not in the future, but in this weird place of inbetweenness.

 

There's a word for this: liminal space.

 

Liminal spaces are thresholds: emotional, mental, metaphorical, and physical. They're the moments when we're transitioning from one state to another, when the old patterns have loosened but the new ones haven't quite formed yet.

 

Right now, many of us are standing in one. The world is changing quickly in ways we can't yet fully see. A new year is approaching. Old certainties feel shaky. It makes complete sense if you feel uncertain, or anxious, or even excited about what might emerge.

 

Sometimes, being understood is everything. When someone describes feeling suspended on a threshold (not quite here, not quite there), you might offer them these words: "It sounds like you're in a liminal space."

 

Naming it doesn't solve it, but it does something important: it reminds us that this in-between feeling is deeply human, completely normal, and something we all move through. You're not stuck. You're in a liminal space. And that's exactly where you're supposed to be right now.