Mini Series Ep2: The In-Between
🌸 Episode 2
The In‑Between: Living in the Space After Burnout and Before Clarity
After everything stopped, life didn’t magically become peaceful. It became strangely empty. My days were suddenly full of rest, TV, and long stretches of time I didn’t feel present for. I didn’t feel like the woman who built a school and coached authors. I didn’t know who I was at all.
In this episode, I share the blurry middle season: the diagnoses of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia, the mix of relief and grief that followed, and the quiet fear that this “blob” version of me might be all that was left. I talk about the tiny glimmers that began to show up — new hobbies, fragments of energy, the realisation that my school was still running without me.
If you’ve stepped back and feel lost in the silence, wondering who you are without the hustle, this episode is a soft place to land.
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Key Takeaways
How it feels to live in a long stretch of “not who I was” and “not yet who I’m becoming.”
The relief and ache that came with finally having names for what my body was going through.
What it meant watching my school continue without me at the centre.
The role that stillness, hobbies, and tiny sparks of joy played in my healing.
Permission to see the in‑between not as failure, but as a necessary part of becoming.
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