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🌱 Developmental Edge

We all have an edge where something new is trying to emerge.

A developmental edge is the living boundary between how you currently make sense of yourself and the world and the next, more spacious way that is trying to emerge.

It’s not a problem to fix or a skill to master. It's the place where your current capacities start to feel insufficient, and something new is quietly asking to unfold.

At a developmental edge, you’ll often notice:

Mild tension, friction, or vulnerability
A sense of “I can’t quite do this the old way anymore”
Aliveness mixed with uncertainty
Patterns that no longer fully work, but haven’t released yet

From a human development perspective (e.g., Robert Kegan’s work), an edge marks the shift from being identified with a way of operating to slowly being able to relate to it. What once ran you starts to become something you can hold with awareness.

In Unfolding terms:

A developmental edge is not crossed by effort or improvement, but by presence, contact, and allowing.

When met with curiosity rather than force, the edge naturally becomes the doorway through which new capacity, clarity, and freedom emerge.

Share whatever feels true if you feel called to.

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