The Edge Is the Beginning
where integration begins
What feels like an ending is often where the new begins.
There are moments when everything feels like it’s falling apart—old ways of knowing, old ways of being, even the stories you’ve told yourself about who you are.
These moments don’t announce themselves as thresholds.
They arrive with fatigue, disorientation, and a quiet ache you can’t quite name.
It’s tempting to call this collapse.
But what if it’s the first breath of something new?
Becoming doesn’t always feel expansive.
Sometimes becoming feels like contraction.
Like confusion.
Like something dying.
But beneath that unraveling, something else is stirring.
It’s the trembling before the shift, the moment before the root splits to reach the light.
You are not lost.
You are on the threshold.
And the shape of what’s next is already forming in the dark.
Integration doesn’t begin once you’ve crossed.
It begins right here—at the edge, in the unknowing, in the moment you’re willing to stop running from what no longer holds you.
This is not the end.
This is the opening.
And even if you can’t name it yet, something in you already knows: the edge is the beginning.
Questions for my Akashic Records:
What part of my life feels like it’s ending—or no longer fits the way it used to?
Where am I mistaking unraveling for failure instead of emergence?
What am I afraid might happen if I allow myself to fully stand at the edge?
What small signs suggest that something new is already beginning within me?
The Becoming Begins Here
There’s a sacred intelligence in the edge, pulling you toward what’s real. Not with force, but with an ache too deep to ignore. When you stop trying to resolve or explain the discomfort, you begin to feel the invitation beneath it. You are not being asked to leap. You are being asked to stay.
To stay here—without answers, without the safety of the known—and still believe that becoming is possible. Life often speaks not in certainty, but in rhythm. And the rhythm of becoming often begins in the quiet, tender space where you thought everything was ending. But nothing is ending. Something is arriving.
Let yourself be here. Right here. With worried hands, with soft breath, with no map but your own soul’s heartbeat. You are standing at the edge. You are already in motion. Let this truth be the ground you stand on.
This Akashic Records practice comes from Cheryl’s workbook:
Stand Where the Truth Scares You:
10 Akashic Records Practices to Stay Present at the Edge of Emergence
Available in Cheryl’s Bookstore
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