The in between can look like so many things, but at its core it’s the space that opens up after you’ve gained clarity and before your external world has fully reorganized around it. It’s the overlap between who you’ve been and who you’re becoming. And most of the time, you’re not there by accident. You’re there because you told yourself the truth about what you want. You’re there becausee you chose growth over comfort. You decided that your time, your energy, and your presence are worth protecting.

I keep picturing how many thoughts like this pass through us every day and disappear. How often we think of someone with tenderness and let it float by, unspoken. And I keep imagining what would happen if more of those thoughts turned into action, if they actually reached the person they were meant for. People moving through their weeks receiving small reminders that they live in someone else’s awareness. That they matter enough to be remembered mid-day, mid-life, mid-chaos.

Your joy may highlight places where someone else feels constrained. Your confidence may activate someone else’s self-doubt. Your freedom may press against someone else’s unexamined rules. That doesn’t make them bad people. And it doesn’t mean you need to become smaller. It might just mean that not everyone knows how to make room for that level of aliveness!

Many people come to therapy believing that if they can just understand why they are anxious, reactive, or stuck in a pattern, they will finally feel better. And most of us already have plenty of insight.