If something in your life has ended — or is ending — and the next thing has not yet arrived, you are not lost. You are in the in-between. Modern culture has almost no language for the long, strange middle part of any real transition — the part anthropologists like Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner called liminal, from the Latin word for threshold. Older cultures built rituals around it. We did not. So when you find yourself between jobs, between relationships, between identities, between the person you have stopped being and the one you have not yet become, there is no cultural structure waiting to hold you. Of course it feels unbearable. You are doing, alone and unsupported, a thing human beings were never meant to do alone.

Guided by Abi Beri — Integrative Somatic Therapist and Nervous System Specialist (Dublin, Naas, Newbridge & online) — this is a roughly hour-long somatic talk on the in-between. It explains what is actually happening in your nervous system, why the body reads uncertainty as danger, the “false floors” we reach for to escape the discomfort, and a practical, ancient definition of faith as the willingness to take the next honest step on ground you cannot yet see.

For anyone between two lives. You are not lost. You are crossing. Looking for a somatic therapist for life transitions in Dublin, Naas, Newbridge or online from anywhere in Ireland or the world? More at somatictherapyireland.com and blissfulevolution.com.