The Neutral Zone is the uncomfortable space between who you were and who you are becoming. It feels like confusion, loss of certainty, even failure. But this in-between phase is not regression. It is incubation. Identity loosens, clarity dissolves, and something deeper begins quietly reorganising beneath the surface.
In 2006, I was lying in a hospital bed in St Thomas’ Hospital in London, staring out over the Thames and the Houses of Parliament. A great view for tourists but a a strange place to be processing the fact that my large intestine was about to be removed.
No one gets out of this life alive. At some point, each of us will face transitions we never asked for, often arriving without warning. While we can’t avoid these moments, we can choose how we meet them. With the right perspective, challenge can become opportunity, and even the hardest changes can be navigated with grace.
