Lori Williams | A Liminal Space Coaching

Tag: belonging

  • Overcoming Religious Trauma: The Theology of Self-Trust

    Self-distrust doesn’t arrive all at once. It gets installed — quietly, systematically, by systems that need you not to trust yourself in order to keep you close.

  • Are We Human or Are We Dancer?

    Are we living from something true and rooted in us, or are we moving to someone else’s rhythm without even knowing it? I spent years dancing to a beat that wasn’t mine — convinced it was leading me home. This is what I learned about systems that use our deepest needs to keep us in…

  • The People Who Stay: Why Friendship Is the Love Story We Keep Missing

    **Slug:** the-people-who-stay-friendship-love-story — **Excerpt:** We were taught that romantic love is the answer — the thing that will complete us, save us, prove our worth. But what if the most nourishing love story of your life has been unfolding quietly beside you all along, in the people who simply stayed? This is a post about…

  • What If I’d Driven Away? Learning Self-Compassion When You Can’t Forgive Your Own Choices

    What if one different choice could have changed everything? Through the lens of a moment sitting outside a church in a minivan, this post explores what it really means to stop punishing yourself, listen to the parts of you that are exhausted, and discover that self-compassion — not self-criticism — is the only way forward.…

  • The Robin on the Fence

    What if nothing is missing at all? What if everything we’re searching for is already here, and we simply can’t see it because we keep looking somewhere else? Inspired by Francis Weller’s In the Absence of the Ordinary, this post is an invitation to slow down, notice what’s right in front of you, and consider…

  • Part 2: How Environment Shapes Us—From Worm Theology to Finding Ourselves

    How can I know what parts of me are shaped by my environment? And what parts of me are who I really am? As an adopted child who later joined an evangelical church, I’ve learned that worm theology doesn’t just teach you about God—it teaches you who you’re supposed to be. And unlearning that is…

  • Beyond the Bubble: What Two Halftime Shows Taught Me About Belonging

    I’m not a football fan, but I watched the Super Bowl for the halftime shows. What I saw revealed something far more important than entertainment: two visions of belonging in America. One triggered memories of my evangelical past—the thin bubble of shared beliefs that burst when I stepped outside the lines. The other showed people…

  • The Ground Beneath My Feet

    All I’d ever done was pretend—first in the family that raised me, then in the church. I didn’t even know I was pretending. Then I finally faced the truth, and people were talking about me. What followed was almost a decade of wandering. But what I’ve found in peer support groups isn’t another savior—it’s shared…

  • Navigating the Cracks

    I’ve been trying to understand what I’m feeling when I look at social media these days. Confusion, fear, anger, and so much grief over where we are as a country right now. It feels like walking across a frozen pond with cracks, wondering when we might fall through. But I’m learning that beneath the surface…

  • Finding Joy and Hope Beyond the Emotional Highs: A Journey from Manufactured to Authentic

    After losing the intoxicating emotional highs of church community, I discovered that true joy and hope aren’t dramatic peaks to chase, but subtle moments that accumulate like stalactites—building lasting strength one drop at a time in the darkness.