Ep 102 - THE IN-BETWEEN: The Phase Everyone Tries to Escape (And Why You Shouldn’t)

In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the often-misunderstood phase of transformation known as the in-between space. This is the stretch of time after an internal identity shift has occurred, but before the external reality has caught up. The moment many people believe they are stuck, doing something wrong, or missing a step, when in truth something far more important is happening beneath the surface.

Sara explains why reality does not respond to urgency, effort, or intellectual understanding, but instead responds to integration. She unpacks how change must move through the entire system (mindset, nervous system, body, and identity) before results can sustainably arrive.

This episode offers reassurance for high performers, overachievers, and entrepreneurs who feel the discomfort of pause after expansion, and it invites you to reframe silence, plateaus, and pauses as recalibration rather than delay, and to recognize that the becoming phase is not empty time.

The pause you’re experiencing is not a failure — it’s a recalibration preparing you to hold more.

Sara shares more about;

• The in-between space occurs after an identity shift, not before the result
• Integration is embodied, not intellectual — knowing is not the same as being
• Rushing the pause prevents you from holding what is trying to arrive
• You attract from identity, not desire
• Silence, plateaus, and slowing down are signs of nervous system recalibration

Sara illustrates how passion fades before it renews, how old identities crumble before new ones stabilize, and why patience is a required skill for sustainable growth.

If you’ve been tempted to push harder, rush the process, or abandon the path altogether, this conversation invites you to soften, stabilize, and trust what is integrating within you.

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