“…and as you do, perhaps you will feel yourself slip into that next stage – the neutral, or wilderness zone. It’s the hardest phase to hang out in, as it is necessarily unstable. You are no longer your old self, but not yet new either. It feels like waiting, absence, disorientation. We often fail to give ourselves adequate time here – we rush to re-stabilize. But it is in this neutral, interim place where we experience the renewal necessary to begin again…”

Rev. Haley is the minister of the Foothills Unitarian Church in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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