Up: [[How to Handle the In-Between Times]] Related: [[Patterns in Life Writing]] Created: 2026-02-22 Sometimes you’re in a liminal space and you don’t know it. All you know is that you feel lost, maybe a little or a lot depressed. I always feel better once I realize that I’m actually in a time of transition and that how I’m feeling is both completely normal and actually exciting because it signals that a new beginning is around the corner. In his excellent book, *The Way of Transition,* [[William Bridges]] asks three powerful questions (p. 91-92). Try them first with a transition you’ve already been through because it’s easier to have perspective on something that has already happened and that you obviously successfully managed. 1. If that time were a course in the school of life, what would the course be called? What was its subject matter? 2. What did you need to *unlearn* for that course? As in, what habit, goal, value, piece of your reality did you need to let go of? 3. To the extent that you made an ending by unlearning something, and you lived through the subsequent neutral zone, what new chapter was waiting in the wings, ready to make its entrance as a new beginning? Once you’ve gone through these questions for a past transition, think about a title for the present chapter of your life; what you’re meant to be learning; what you need to let go of or unlearn, and what unlived life is backstage waiting to make its entrance, should you choose to allow it.