The In-Between Is Not a Detour. It’s Curriculum.
The in-between can look like failure from the outside. You left the job. You paused the plan. You don’t have the clean narrative yet.
But the in-between isn’t empty.
It’s full of information.
It shows you what you were tolerating. It shows you what your body has been trying to say. It shows you which parts of your life were held together by performance, not peace.
I know this because I lived it. I didn’t write The Exit Strategy as a brand concept. I wrote it as a reminder: the space between no longer and not yet isn’t a failure. It’s a portal.
Identity grief is real
Sometimes the grief isn’t about a person. It’s about a version of you. The teacher. The achiever. The helper. The one who always had it together.
When you stop abandoning yourself, some identities can’t come with you and that loss deserves language.
The curriculum of the in-between
The in-between teaches you:
what you actually need
what you can no longer pretend is normal
what kind of community is real
what kind of work is sustainable
what kind of life is livable
The practice that holds you
That’s where Abandoning Self-Abandonment comes in:
Reveal. Release. Reclaim. Re-root. Radiate.
This isn’t self-help as performance.
It’s self-honoring as infrastructure.
