The Unfiltered Human On The Fringe - Episode - 47 - The Liminal Self

The Unfiltered Human On The Fringe - Episode - 47 - The Liminal Self 🌒

We spend much of life in between, caught in thresholds where the old has dissolved and the new has not yet formed. Anthropologists call this liminality, the “not-yet” spaces that disorient, unsettle, and transform us.

In this episode, we explore:

⚖️ Between Worlds — what it means to live suspended, ambiguous, and open to possibility.

💔 Grief as Threshold — mourning as a liminal passage where love, loss, and transformation intertwine.

⏳ The Waiting Room of Life — time distortion, anxiety, and what waiting teaches us.

🌀 Identity in Suspension — when roles dissolve and the self feels fluid, fragile, and fertile.

👣 Personal Reflections — childhood thresholds, early encounters with death, and disorienting transitions.

🧠 Psychological Insights — van Gennep’s rites of passage, Turner’s communitas, Winnicott on transitional spaces, and grief psychology.

🌱 Practices & Prompts — how to live inside the not-yet without rushing to escape.

The liminal self reminds us that transformation is rarely linear; it unfolds in the in-betweens, where uncertainty becomes the womb of becoming.

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