Who are we when the roles, labels, habits, and expectations that once defined us begin to fall away? In this episode, I explore identity through recovery, psychology, and personal transformation. I look at the difference between the self we inherit, the self we perform, and the self we gradually choose. Recovery is not only about leaving substances behind. It can also mean confronting the roles that kept us trapped and discovering who remains when those roles no longer fit. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

In this episode of The Liminal Threshold, I explore the first leg of my three-part framework: Meaning, Identity, and Initiation.

Drawing on Viktor Frankl, logotherapy, recovery, and my own experience, I examine the existential vacuum, the “craving beneath the craving,” and the ways meaning can emerge through creation, love, responsibility, and our attitude toward suffering that cannot be changed.

Recovery here means more than recovery from addiction. It can mean rebuilding after grief, illness, divorce, trauma, career loss, or the collapse of an identity that once organized our lives.

Meaning does not always arrive as a grand purpose. Sometimes it begins with the next response: write the page, attend the meeting, make the call, care for another living being, feed the dragon.

Meaning asks why. Identity asks who. Initiation asks how we cross from what we were into what we are becoming.

This episode begins with the first question. 

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.

That is the territory of this podcast.
The Liminal Threshold is about transformation, but not the polished, marketable kind. Not the kind where a person pretends everything is fixed because they changed a few habits and found a better slogan. I am interested in the deeper work: the inner passage, the symbolic life, the hard-won meaning that comes from walking through uncertainty without turning back.

Books by Brett Iskra
The Search for Meaning in Recovery
The Roles We Live
The Osiris Pattern
 

My Amazon Author Link here.