The Messy Middle: A Waiting Room, Not a Place to Live (Ep. 04)
Something ended. Something hasn't begun. And sometimes nothing happened at all: you just stopped recognizing the person you are today. Brian calls that stretch the messy middle, and this week he asks Michael the hard question: what is it, really?
Michael's answer is "thrashing": the season when the things you used to identify with stop resonating and nothing has replaced them yet. Brian brings back the book from his Big Sur retreat, the caterpillar in the cocoon, and the uncomfortable truth that for a while you're just goo. They talk about the grief in it, why the universe won't let you rush…
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