Welcome to The Space In Between.
I started this space after returning home from a season away, convinced that I would simply pick up where I had left off.
I quickly discovered that life doesn’t quite work that way.
While I was away, life at home continued. People changed. Friendships found new rhythms. Familiar spaces shifted. But I had changed too—perhaps in ways that were not immediately visible to the people who had known me before I left.
I found myself caught somewhere between the person people remembered and the person I had become—or, more accurately, was still becoming.
That is The Space In Between.
It is the space between leaving and returning.
Between holding on and letting go.
Between old friendships and changing relationships.
Between ambition and contentment.
Between belonging somewhere and wondering whether you still do.
Between who you were, who you are, and who you are slowly becoming.
I don’t write from a place of having figured it all out. Quite the opposite.
This is a place to ask questions, sit with uncertainty, reflect on experiences, and make sense of the strange, beautiful and sometimes uncomfortable process of becoming.
Some reflections will be deeply personal. Others may wander into work, travel, friendship, faith, leadership, identity, places I’ve encountered and lessons I’m still learning.
Mostly, though, this is a record of finding my footing again—without assuming that finding my way means returning to exactly where I started.
Perhaps you have found yourself in a space in between too.
If so, welcome.
— Irene
Who I was. Who I am. Who I’m becoming.