Notes on Beginning Again

I have spent the last decade doing deep work in careers, callings, and community building. But I truly learned what it meant to navigate a liminal space when my own life was upended in a matter of forty-eight hours. Two days before my wedding, the future I had spent years planning completely evaporated.

The image at the top of this page was taken several months later—when I made the conscious choice to go on my honeymoon alone. Standing in that landscape by myself, I realized what it truly felt like to look at a sprawling loss: a life partner, a second family, and my entire sense of direction. Having moved to a new state just weeks prior to start a new institutional role, I had to face the ultimate question of who I was supposed to be when the external structures of my life were stripped away.

Because there is no public blueprint for navigating profound structural and emotional upheaval, I chose to lean into an intentional vulnerability. I shared my transition openly—not to seek pity or place blame, but to normalize the messy reality of starting over.

The response changed the trajectory of my work. Quietly, my inbox filled with devastating, beautiful, hidden stories from others. Stories of quiet divorces, sudden organizational layoffs, and deep personal crossroads that never grace an Instagram feed. It became clear to me that hardship is never meant to be carried in isolation or shame, and that the modern reality rarely gives us the vocabulary to navigate the spaces between who we were and who we are becoming.

Being vulnerable and creating spaces for human connection is the bedrock of my methodology. Over the years, as friends and colleagues have faced their own divorces, career terminations, or life upheavals, I have consistently been the first person they reached out to—because they know I understand the anatomy of the messy middle without judgment.

I built Liminal Space Studio to be the precise sanctuary I needed during my own transition. Whether we are structurally redesigning your career architecture or holding space for a major personal threshold, you do not have to cross it alone. We will steady your pace, look honestly at the data of your life, and design what’s next, together.