"There are times in life when nothing makes sense anymore. It feels like you're in a new season of your life, but the writers have clearly gone on strike and left you with no script. You're not even sure what genre it is: Drama? Comedy? A documentary on existential suffering? You wake one morning and unfortunately realize something silently unraveled while you weren't looking."
"Familiar roles and landscapes dissolve, old stories begin to lose power, and you wonder who is staring back in the mirror. You can't go back, and you can't yet go forward. Who you once were is no longer an option, and you don't yet know who you're becoming. If this sounds familiar, know that you're not broken. You're in a threshold; a messy, living in-between season where the old begins to fall away and something new is taking shape."
A living threshold is a psychological and spiritual in-between time between chapters of life. Old roles, stories, and ambitions can dissolve, leaving disorientation, restlessness, and simultaneous craving for comfort and novelty. Life may appear normal externally while an unnamed inner stirring reorganizes identity. Threshold experiences often follow loss, heartbreak, change, uncertainty, or awakening after numbness. The surface experience feels chaotic, confusing, and untethered, while the psyche quietly rearranges priorities and sense of self. Culture often fails to teach staying with this process, favoring motion and output over tolerance for mystery. The threshold is not brokenness but a formative, living transition.
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