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# The Messy Middle Is Holy Territory
- URL: https://connect.aaronembrey.com/the-messy-middle-is-holy-territory/
- Published: 2025-11-23T19:39:30.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-28T20:39:01.000Z
- Description: That awkward place where we struggle to show up, incomplete and in-progress, while we’re still figuring things out (as we go).
- Author: Aaron Embrey

It’s easy to end up here...

Not at the beginning (where my idea is still full of curiosity and possibility). 

AND *definitely* not at the end, where I can finally look back to reflect and make sense of everything... the good, bad, and in-between.

 I’m still here, in the fricking, messy middle. *Again.* 

What an uncomfortable, uncertain, *liminal* place...

This is the part where *we’re not who we were*, but *we’re ALSO, not yet who we’re still becoming,* either... 

***You know, that awkward place where we sometimes struggle to show up, half-formed, incomplete, in-progress, while we’re still figuring things out (as we go).***

For a long time, I thought being in the middle meant I was... *behind*... or broken. Or still uninformed and too green to share what I was learning or creating.

I felt like I needed to wait until I had it *all together* before I could finally, feel confident enough be seen in my expertise. 

*Before I “deserved” to take up space.*

But here's what I'm learning: ***The middle is where all of the real work lives.***

Where we meet ourself in real time. 

Where we discover what we’re made of, taking that first, courageous, creative step (even *before* we know the exact way).

Somehow, we learn, the messy middle is THE pivot point of our paths/projects/process. 

***It’s a portal for our projects.*** 

***And a required step for the process of BECOMING...***

The moment JUST before things start to shift into place... where the old stories finally fall away and the new ones can finally start to take root...

## Lately, I've been living here, *in the thick of my own* [*becoming*](https://aaronembrey.com/wild-becoming/?ref=connect.aaronembrey.com)*...* 

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Working from the dark, deep uncertainty of “what if..”. 

Designing from the liminal space between *what was* and *what will be*...

Yes, it’s (SUPER) uncomfortable, but I find that it’s also... *honest*?

And for me, it’s where *real* transformation happens, if I can just... let it.

I'm *slowly, surely* learning to trust that **creative clarity** doesn’t happen before we take **creative action**. BUT it does show up WITH our commitment to **creative action**...

If you're in your own messy middle right now,. THIS is *exactly where your work will take root.*

**We don’t have to wait until we’re “ready” or “finished” to be seen.**

Maybe our awkward, middle places and spaces... *ALL the uncertain, unfinished, in-progress spaces*... are *exactly* where we’re supposed to show up the MOST (maybe, it’s exactly when & where showing up will have the the most impact on our creative ideas, projects, process, and selves/identities).

***I would love to hear from you and see you and more from inside your messy middle! Please share your incomplete ideas and in-process projects with me if you have a minute.***  
  
#wildbecoming  
#showyourmess  
#showmeyourmessymiddle