So you're somewhere in the middle…

You’re not where you started, not where you thought you'd be by now and maybe not quite where you're even going. Just somewhere in between.

Maybe something ended, something changed… you're waiting, or rebuilding, or maybe the life you thought you wanted doesn't feel like the life you want anymore. Or maybe you can't explain it at all. You just know something is shifting, and it feels like you’re experiencing the dark night of the soul as characters do in your favorite novelS.

You've gone back to the things that always worked before and they aren't working now. You're trying to force the season to turn and it won't. You're begging God in your prayers and nothing seems to be moving.

So what if, instead of rushing to get out of the middle, you learned how to work it?

I KNOW YOU DON’T WANNA HEAR THIS BUT, THE MIDDLE ISN'T WASTED TIME…

It's a season, and seasons have purpose. Valley seasons can feel uncomfortable, confusing, lonely, and disappointing. They can also be where we become more honest, where our priorities change, where old identities fall away, and where we finally hear ourselves think. They're often where we discover what we actually want, because God, life, and circumstances have slowed us down long enough to notice what we've been too busy to see.

The middle is where the shifting happens. Work the Middle is an invitation to stop treating your in-between season like something you need to hurry through. For thirty days we're going to explore it, question it, journal through it, and pay attention to it. We're going to look for the blessings hidden inside it, and find out who you're becoming because of it.

WELCOME TO WORK THE MIDDLE

(such a cheeky title I know , I couldn’t help myself when it popped in my head…but…if you’ve read my books, you shouldn’t be blushing)

Over thirty days you'll name the season you're in, recognize the shifts happening around you and within you, and reframe the valley as a season with purpose. You'll release what doesn't belong in your next chapter, receive what this season has to teach you, and reimagine what comes next.

This isn't about forcing yourself to have a five-year plan by September 30. It's about becoming present to the life you're actually living, because sometimes the question isn't "what's next?" Sometimes it's "what's happening right now?"

30 DAYS OF SEPTEMBER…

For the month of September, you'll move through four stages of the middle.

Week One: Name the Middle.

Week Two: Work the Middle.

Week Three: Shift With It.

Week Four: Honor the Middle.

THIS IS ABOUT MORE THAN JOURNALING…

Your journal is the foundation, but Work the Middle isn't sitting at home answering thirty prompts. All month you'll receive Middle Work, real experiences that take what you're finding on the page and put it into your actual life.

You may be invited to take yourself somewhere you've never been, or to spend an afternoon in silence. To have the conversation you've been avoiding, or return to something you used to love. To make something with your hands, make space in your home, write a letter, take yourself on a date, walk somewhere without your headphones, or sit with a question instead of rushing to answer it.

These aren't productivity assignments. They're invitations to pay attention.

Best of all, you’ll realize you’re not alone, you’ll be in community.

WHAT YOU GET

Your 30-day digital journal. Daily prompts, reflection exercises, and activities built around the Work the Middle framework. Print it or write in it on your device.

Four live virtual community gatherings. We come together each week to move through a stage together. These aren't Zoom classes. Think guided reflection, storytelling, journaling, and honest conversation, with retreat energy. There's room to slow down, think, write, and be heard.

Middle Work. The real-life experiences that move all of this off the page.

A private community. You'll spend September alongside other women in their own middle seasons, with a place to reflect, encourage, and be reminded that you're not the only one here.

Your Middle Map. A living record of the changes, lessons, losses, desires, and discoveries surfacing in this season.

Your Middle Declaration. At the end you'll write a declaration honoring what this season taught you and who you're becoming because of it.

The closing experience. On the last day of September we gather to close the season on purpose and honor the work you did.

HOW IT RUNS

Work the Middle runs September 1 to 30, 2026. We meet for four live gatherings weekly, and each one runs about seventy-five minutes depending on how many participants we have and how conversations flow. Outside of those, plan on fifteen to thirty minutes a day with your journal.

Everything happens on Zoom and in a private community space. Every gathering is recorded and stays up through the end of the experience. All you need is something to write with.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN

Read that again. You don't have to know exactly what you're doing next, or have your dream career figured out. You don't have to know whether you're staying or leaving, what the next relationship looks like, what your business becomes, or where you're going to live. You don't need a perfect vision board.

You just have to be willing to pay attention to where you are, because clarity doesn't always come from thinking harder. Sometimes it comes from staying present long enough to notice.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF

You're in a season of transition, and something in your life doesn't feel the way it used to. You're questioning what you want, grieving an old version of your life, starting over, waiting for something to change, or feeling stuck in place. Maybe some of your old dreams don't fit anymore.

You want clarity, but not from another program telling you to hustle harder. You believe there might be purpose in the pauses, the pivots, the detours, and the valleys. Or you just have a feeling that something is shifting.

QUESTIONS

What if I can't make the live gatherings? Come when you can. Every gathering is recorded and posted within a day, and the journal, the Middle Work, and the community carry you the rest of the month.

Do I have to be a writer? No. This is journaling, not craft, and nobody is grading your sentences. If you can be honest with yourself on paper, you can do this.

Do I have to share what I write? Never. Sharing is always invited and never required. Some women will talk every week, and some won't say a word all month and will still leave different than they came.

Is this a Bible study? No. It's led by a woman of faith, and faith comes up the way it comes up in real life. You don't have to believe what I believe to belong in this room.

What if my middle isn't dramatic? It doesn't have to be. Some middles are a divorce or a diagnosis or a closed door, and some are just a quiet sense that something stopped fitting. Both belong here.

How much time will this take? Fifteen to twenty minutes a day, plus about seventy-five minutes once a week if you come live.

Can I join after it starts? Enrollment closes August 30. We move through this together in real time, and starting together is part of what makes it work.

Do you offer refunds? All enrollments are final..

WHAT YOU'LL WALK AWAY WITH…

Language for this season. Right now when someone asks how you've been, you say "FINE," because the real answer takes forty minutes and you don't have the words yet. By September 30 you will. And you'll stop feeling crazy.

Proof that you've been moving. You pray and hear nothing. You watch everyone else's life go forward while yours sits still. Your Middle Map will show you thirty days of evidence that things were shifting the whole time you felt stuck.

Permission to stop apologizing. To your mother, to the friend who asks what's next, to yourself at two in the morning. This season isn't a failure of yours to explain away.

Clarity about what you actually want now. Which won't be what you wanted before. You'll learn the difference between a dream you still want and one you're only holding so the years don't feel wasted. Setting that one down isn't quitting. It's relief.

A record you'll read for years. A year from now you'll open it and meet the woman who didn't know yet, praying for things you already have.

Your declaration. Written, dated, and yours, for October when you forget and January when it gets hard again.

Women who knew you here. Not the polished version telling the story after it turned out fine. This one, who doesn't know how it ends yet.

What you won't have. A five-year plan. An answer about whether to stay or go. You may reach September 30 with none of that, and I won't promise otherwise.

What you'll have is the ability to live in the not-knowing without it stealing your peace. Because you were never going to think your way out of this season. You were going to have to walk through it, and this is thirty days of not walking through it alone.

Enrollment closes August 30.

Work the Middle. Don't rush the valley. Work it.

Payment is one time and will not be a subscription.