Threshold Moments
by Sarah Tacy
Threshold Moments is a podcast about people who follow their hearts to lead their most authentic lives. Along the way they will cross over some thresholds in which it is clear that what once worked, no longer works. The next version is awaiting. The path is unknown, and safety structures will fall away.Once a week, you can expect to hear from incredible guests about the moments that forever changed them. They'll share their messy middles, the things they can now laugh at in retrospect, the lessons they've learned along the way, and the freedom they've found by following the pull. You'll hear about a variety of navigation tools: Some of my guests rely on breathing, fitness, or hot/cold therapy.Some track the moon, their menstrual cycles, their mind set, or sensations in their bodies. Others attune to nature, their spiritual team, and/or dreams.Others use psychedelic medicine and or psychotherapy. No matter the tools, threshold moments tend to be ripe w/ heartbreak, excitement
Episodes
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148 - Re-Earthing: Nervous System Healing Through Nature
What if reconnecting with nature isn't about going somewhere outside of ourselves, but remembering that we are nature? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah welcomes psychotherapist, mindfulness teacher, forest therapy guide, and author Julie Brams for a conversation about our relationship...
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147 - Nervous System Healing & Mountain Medicine: Peru Part 1
What happens when a trip you've been dreaming about for two years begins with unexpected challenges, physical illness, and an invitation to surrender? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah begins sharing the lessons and experiences from her recent journey to Peru. After saying a…
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146 - Behind the Resourced Launch: Business, Boundaries & Sacred Reciprocity
What does it actually look like to opt out of urgency while running a business, launching a program, raising a family, and navigating life's unexpected challenges? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah takes you behind the scenes of her recent Resourced launch, sharing the highs, the...
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145 - Reclaiming Yourself in Love
What happens when you stop trying to make love happen—and start becoming more fully yourself? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah sits down with relationship expert Christine Hassler for a deeply personal conversation about love, surrender, control, and the protective strategies that can...
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144 - When You Come Back to Feeling
What happens when life looks good on the outside, but you can't actually feel it? In this episode, Sarah reads one of her personal essays, "I Could Have Been on That Boat and Felt None of It," and reflects on a season when she had so much of what she thought would make her feel better—but still...
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143 - What Changes When You Become Resourced? Real Stories From Inside the Program
What Changes When You Become Resourced? Real Stories From Inside the Program What actually changes when you stop simply learning about your nervous system and begin practicing a different way of being? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah does something a little different: she shares the...
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142 - From Functional Burnout to Resourced: Learning to Trust Yourself Again
What happens when the life you built — the career, the identity, the pace, the version of you who could hold it all — no longer works? In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah sits down with Emily Evans, a former Resourced student and founder of The Wander Years, to talk about functional...
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141 - Replace Adrenaline with Sustainable Motivation
What if the goal of nervous system work isn't to become calmer—but to become more alive? In this special episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah is joined by Kate Northrup for a conversation originally recorded during an Instagram Live about Opting Out of Urgency in 2025. Kate shares how Sarah's work...
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140 - When Urgency Disguises Itself as Growth
What if the thing you think is driving your growth is actually urgency? In this Mini Musing, Sarah explores one of the sneakiest patterns of urgency: how easily it can disguise itself as dedication, productivity, ambition, or the desire to grow. Sarah shares a personal example of catching herself...
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139 - Jeannine Yoder: Opting Out of Urgency: What Happens When You No Longer Need Pressure to Move
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy sits down with her dear friend, breathwork practitioner and coach Jeannine Yoder, to trace the origins of Opting Out of Urgency—including the moment Jeannine first spoke the phrase that would become the name of Sarah's workshop. Jeannine Yoder is a...
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138 - Ginny Muir: How to Slow the Pace of Your Life
Today I'm welcoming back my friend Ginny Muir for a conversation about what it really takes to step out of urgency culture. After a big life transition and international move, Ginny discovered how to slow her pace, honor her capacity, and build a life rooted in presence. If you've been craving…
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137 - I'm Okay When I'm Okay: Rewriting the Female Nervous System
What if the root of overwhelm, urgency, and burnout isn't that you're doing too much—but that your nervous system learned that your safety depends on everyone else being okay first? In this episode, Sarah explores one of the most common patterns she sees in women: "I'm okay when you're okay."…
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136 - Ruthie Lindsey: When Obstacles Become Portals
What if the hardest things you've lived through are invitations into your life? Ruthie has survived what most bodies are never asked to hold. I wanted the details, and she gives them. What I did not expect was how present she stayed while telling me. No performance of having healed. Just a woman...
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135 - The Gap: What Happens Between Who You Were and Who You're Becoming
This week is a little different. Instead of interviewing a guest, Sarah shares a deeply personal reflection adapted from her newsletter. This one was called, The Gap. Inspired by her daughter's missing tooth and ever-widening empty space in her smile, Sarah explores the seasons of life when...
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134 - Sara Avant Stover: Life Beyond Urgency
How do you know when it's time to let go of a version of yourself that once worked? In this rich and deeply reflective conversation, Sarah sits down with returning guest Sara Avant Stover to discuss the seasons of life that require us to slow down, dismantle old identities, and listen more…
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133 - Orienting: The Nervous System Tool That Changes Everything
What do a child's missing tooth, a broken steering wheel in the middle of the ocean, and nervous system regulation have in common? In this Mini Musing, Sarah explores one of the most foundational nervous system tools: orientation. When we're activated, our world tends to shrink. We become…
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132 - Vasavi Kumar: Finding Your Voice & Reclaiming Your Truth
What happens when you stop outsourcing your worth and finally learn to trust your own voice? In this deeply honest conversation, Sarah sits down with voice trainer, author, and podcast host Vasavi Kumar to explore the transformative power of speaking your truth. Together they unpack the hidden…
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131 - Vision and the Nervous System: Three Practices To Help Expand Awareness
In this solo episode of Threshold Moments, we explore the powerful relationship between vision and the nervous system. Most of the sensory information entering our brains is visual, yet stress can dramatically narrow our field of awareness, creating both physical and psychological tunnel vision....
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130 - Kristin Burgess: Truth, Grief, and the Courage to Rebuild
In this deeply expansive conversation, Sarah Tacy sits down with creative director and co-founder of the Prism House, Kristin Burgess, to trace the long arc of a relationship that began at the very start of Kristin's wedding planning career and unfolds into a story of identity, creativity,...
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129 - Nervous System Work Isn't Boring: Finding the Juice in Healing
When people hear nervous system work, they often imagine something slow, dry, or even boring. But what if healing wasn't about forcing yourself to sit still—and what if regulation could actually feel alive? In this solo episode, Sarah Tacy demystifies nervous system work and shares why slowing…
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128 - Kate Nguy: The Calendar That Changed Everything: Cyclical Living, Burnout, and Raising Hormone-Literate Kids
What if understanding your menstrual cycle could transform not only your relationship with yourself—but your parenting, partnership, and entire household? In this deeply practical and eye-opening conversation, Sarah sits down with women's hormone health practitioner Kate Nguy to explore how…
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127 - What If 75% Was Already Done?
What if more is supporting you than you realize? In this mini-musing, Sarah reflects on an art installation she encountered over twenty years ago that transformed the way she understands effort, support, and nervous system regulation. Inspired by an assignment asking students to notice what was...
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126 - Therese Jornlin: What Happens When You Stop Protecting Yourself From Life
In this deeply reflective conversation, Sarah Tacy sits down with Therese Jornlin to explore a life shaped by threshold moments—those irreversible openings that change how reality is perceived and lived. Therese shares her early experiences of profound awakening following the sudden death of her...
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125 - Tolerance & Truth: The Threshold of Perimenopause
What if losing tolerance isn't a problem, but an invitation to be more sensitive to our truths? And, if we do take active measures (through hormone support or nervous system work) to improve our range of tolerance, can we use that to stay steady in our selves while standing up for what really...
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124 - Amina AlTai: Existential Crisis and Staying with the Dream
What happens after the dream comes true? OR when your dream didn't quite come true, but other beautiful realities appeared that you could not have imagined? And what happens when success still asks more of your nervous system, your body, and your spirit than you expected? In this deeply…
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123 - Wendy Snyder Q&A: Parenting Without Shame
In this heartfelt Q&A episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy and parenting educator Wendy Snyder dive deeper into the realities of parenting sensitive, strong-willed, and emotionally expressive children. Through live coaching conversations with members of the Juice community, Wendy shares...
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122 - Wendy Snyder: When Parenting Breaks You Open
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy sits down with parenting educator and family life coach Wendy Snyder to explore a transformative shift in how we understand children's behavior, nervous system regulation, and the dynamics of power in the parent-child relationship. Wendy introduces…
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121 - Dana B. Myers: The Art and Magic of Allowing
In this rich and playful conversation, Sarah sits down with returning guest Dana Meyers—former founder of Booty Parlor, author, tarot reader, ritualist, and self-described "business witch"—to explore what unfolded after selling the company she built for 20 years. For over twenty years, she has...
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120 - Elisabeth Kristof Q&A: Staying Regulated During Expansion
What happens when you are no longer in crisis, but you are not yet fully yourself? Most nervous system conversations start at the bottom — trauma, shutdown, survival mode. This one starts in the middle. That in-between place where you have done real work, you can see the progress, and somehow it...
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119 - Elisabeth Kristof: Somatics & Nervous System for Wealth
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy sits down with Elisabeth Kristof, founder of Brain-Based Wellness and Neuro Somatic Intelligence (NSI), and co-host of the podcast Trauma Rewired. Together, they explore the intersection of applied neurology, somatic practices, and nervous system...
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118 - Kaitlyn Carlson Q&A: Planning for Support
In this special Q&A episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy is joined by financial strategist Kaitlyn Carlson for an honest, grounded conversation with members of the JUICE community. Kaitlyn Carlson is the founder of Theory Planning Partners a wealth building firm. She brings experience from...
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117 - Kaitlyn Carlson: Money, Power, and Your Heart
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy sits down with wealth strategist and financial planner Kaitlyn Carlson for a deeply personal conversation about identity, integrity, and redefining success. Kaitlyn Carlson is the founder of Theory Planning Partners who once upon a time advised…
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116 - Q&A with Kate Northrup: The Intersection of Money & Energy
Today, Kate Northrup returns to Threshold Moments for a live Q&A exploring money, energy, and the deeper patterns shaping how we show up in our work and lives. In this grounded and eye-opening conversation, we explore the internal and external shifts required to move beyond scarcity, and how…
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115 - Kate Northrup: Being a Conductor of Wealth
Today, Kate Northrup returns to Threshold Moments for a powerful kickoff to Season 4. Kate Northrup is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and body-based financial educator who helps conscious humans build wealth without burning out. Blending practical money strategy with nervous system awareness...
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114 - Amber Lilyestrom: Little Big Beautiful Things
Today Amber Lilyestrom returns to Threshold Moments to share her new poetry collection Little Big Beautiful Things. Amber is a globally recognized business mentor, a best selling author, a poet and a keynote speaker known for her groundbreaking work in business energetics and strategy. She's also...
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113 - Deep Roots & Rich Soil: The Gift of Thresholds
Today's episode is for you if you're in the midst of a threshold and wondering how you'll make it through. When certain parts of our identity are stripped away, we go into the fertile void. In that space, we may not be able to find the rhyme or reason why it's happening, but I promise that the...
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112 - Awe is the Love Language of the Nervous System
I once heard from a teacher that awe might be one of the first reflexes we have as babies: eyes wide, breath held in wonder, taking in the world for the very first time. I haven't found a study to prove it, but it feels true—the impulse to point, to name, to exclaim, "Look at that! And that over...
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111 - I Want Calm! (or do I?)
Many of my clients come to me craving calm — slower mornings, quieter children, less chaos in their day-to-day. That sense of peace is a beautiful goal, but I also like to remind them: calm alone isn't the full picture of nervous system regulation. In this episode, we explore the pendulum between...
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110 - Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons: Preparing for Rich Transitions
This week, Elizabeth Zelinka Parsons is here to prepare us for the threshold of career transitions and retirement. Elizabeth is a retirement transition expert, lawyer, and the author of Encore: A High Achiever's Guide to Thriving in Retirement. With over two decades of experience in professional...
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109 - I Want Expansion!
So many of us crave expansion — more capacity, more visibility, more money, more love. But expansion without contraction is like inhaling without exhaling. It's not sustainable. In this episode, I explore why growth requires both — the up-wave and the down-wave. And I offer the acronym PRISM as a...
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108 - Siri Baruc Thornton: The Humanity of Healing
Welcome back to Threshold Moments. Today I'm joined by Siri Baruc Thornton for a heartfelt conversation about what it means to allow ourselves to be fully human while we heal. Siri is a healing artist, retreat producer, and founder of sage + blush wellness. With over 30 years of experience in...
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107 - Maura Moynihan: Participating in the Call of Your Heart
"Everything can be used as a portal inward and into the infinite. When we begin to get curious and lean in, providence meets us right there and the veil lifts." Dr. Maura Moynihan is a chiropractor, cranial sacral practitioner, and Revelation Breathwork teacher. She coaches women to consciously...
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106 - Why Small Steps Matter
We live in a culture obsessed with big leaps and overnight success. But real transformation doesn't come from dramatic shifts. That's because: Small steps are not a consolation prize. They're the bridge between stuckness and possibility. In this episode, we explore why small steps matter and how...
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105 - Resourced Alumni Speak Up
Today, I'm sharing reflections from alumni of my group program, Resourced. Hear from Joy, Viktória, Katie, Colleen, and Ginny — five women who joined me last fall to reclaim their pace, power, and relationships through nervous system re-patterning. Along the way, I share mini musings on how to...
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Bonus - Sovereignty and Sacred Interdependence Meditation
Today marks the final day of my free Opting Out of Urgency program (you can still catch the replays here). To celebrate, I'm sharing a special bonus episode: a guided meditation on sovereignty and sacred interdependence. Settle in, listen with your body, and enjoy this invitation to return to…
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104 - Ginny Gill: From Urgency to Devotion
Today on Threshold Moments, I'm joined by my good friend Ginny Gill. Ginny is a gifted breathwork practitioner, professional space-holder, and veterinary oncologist. She also moves through life as a mother, wife, daughter, sister, forever learner—and most recently, as a participant in my…
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103 - Opting Out of Urgency
Welcome back to Threshold Moments. In this mini musing, I reflect on what it takes to step out of urgency culture and into a pace that feels more grounded and alive. Together, we'll explore stories and tools for shifting from "all or nothing" thinking into resonant pacing, finding the sacred…
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102 - Ginny Muir: How to Slow the Pace of Your Life
Today I'm welcoming back my friend Ginny Muir for a conversation about what it really takes to step out of urgency culture. After a big life transition and international move, Ginny discovered how to slow her pace, honor her capacity, and build a life rooted in presence. If you've been craving…
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101 - The Space Between Doing it All and Chaos
Have you ever wondered what might happen if you abandoned the endless expectations and tasks on your to-do list? In this week's episode, I explore what it really means to release urgency, honor our capacity, and create space for others to show up for us. Together, we'll look at: Why releasing the...
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100 - Tele Darden: Aligned Timing and Tools for Thresholds
Tele Darden is a somatic coach, teacher, and facilitator with an international reach who supports visionary practitioners to bring their most authentic, embodied medicine into the world. She's been in practice since 2007, accumulating thousands of hours of body work and holding space as a coach.…
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About this show
Threshold Moments is a podcast about people who follow their hearts to lead their most authentic lives. Along the way they will cross over some thresholds in which it is clear that what once worked, no longer works. The next version is awaiting. The path is unknown, and safety structures will fall away.Once a week, you can expect to hear from incredible guests about the moments that forever changed them. They'll share their messy middles, the things they can now laugh at in retrospect, the lessons they've learned along the way, and the freedom they've found by following the pull. You'll hear about a variety of navigation tools: Some of my guests rely on breathing, fitness, or hot/cold therapy.Some track the moon, their menstrual cycles, their mind set, or sensations in their bodies. Others attune to nature, their spiritual team, and/or dreams.Others use psychedelic medicine and or psychotherapy. No matter the tools, threshold moments tend to be ripe w/ heartbreak, excitement
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