Conversations At The Threshold

Taylor Holliday

Conversations at the Threshold is a podcast for women who are ready to stop people-pleasing, trust themselves more deeply, and choose a life that reflects who they truly are. Through honest storytelling, embodied practices, and grounded spiritual wisdom, each episode invites you to reconnect with your body, honor your desires, and move through life’s thresholds with greater self-devotion, presence, and sovereignty.

  1. 7 Oct

    Discovering What Lives On The Other Side Of Grief with Kyla Gagnon

    In this episode, Kyla Gagnon shares her threshold of losing her mother at 20 years old and how years spent surviving, suppressing emotion, and searching for “more” eventually led her into somatic healing, conscious connected breathwork, and a deeper relationship with herself. In this conversation, we explore: The threshold of grief and how emotional suppression can become a long-term survival strategyHow somatic work and conscious connected breathwork can reconnect us to emotions we’ve spent years avoidingWhy emotions are not “bad,” and how anger, grief, fear, and sadness carry important informationWhat lives on the other side of grief, and how allowing ourselves to fully feel can create space for pleasure, aliveness, and expansionA simple breathwork practice for moments of overwhelm, anxiety, and nervous system activationWhy healing is not meant to become another endless loop of self-fixing, but a doorway back into fully living Connect with Kyla Gagnon Podcast: RECLAIMED → https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/reclaimed-with-kyla-gagnon/id1727444142 Instagram: @breathworkwithkyla Free Gift: The Healing Loop Reset → https://www.kylagagnon.com/reclaimed-move-out-of-healing-loops-and-into-your-life?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleARneLlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafoEAXpAqq1AIuiqMHnoJBBMPQq7akrY_YKLE9vRCgieEZumX6s3Upij1z_Cw_aem_cg6XkCWKMTasxcRwmgAzkw Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  2. 28 Sept

    When The Threshold Finds You with Arianne MacBean

    In this episode, Arianne MacBean explores her lived experience of thresholds—moments of grief, initiation, and transformation that cannot be forced, only met. In this conversation, we explore: • The “tectonic” threshold of grief following the death of her mother and how loss became an initiation into the unseen • A powerful somatic and mystical experience in a cave in Crete and the embodied encounter with the “hum” of the Earth • The difference between forcing ritual and allowing transformation to unfold in its own timing • How micro-shifts and internal reframes can reshape identity, relationships, and lived experience • The practice of self-trust, embodied intuition, and learning to listen to inner knowing Reflection: Where in your life are you being asked to soften your need to force clarity—and instead trust that something deeper is already unfolding within you? Connect With Arianne: Website: https://www.synergysomaticpsychotherapy.com/ Instagram: @synergysomatics Substack: @writebig The Big Show Co.: https://www.thebigshowco.com/ Free Gift: Tough Shit Playlist - angry feminist music for when you just need to rage by DJ Dy → https://www.synergysomaticpsychotherapy.com/tough-sht Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  3. 22 Sept

    How To Break Free from Burnout and Return To A Slower, More Intentional Life with Olaiya Land

    In this episode, Olaiya Land explores her current threshold of divesting from patriarchal, capitalist systems and returning to a slower, more intentional, and human way of living rooted in pleasure, connection, and embodiment. In this conversation, we explore: • The threshold of releasing productivity-driven conditioning and reclaiming time and energy in a system that profits from burnout • The tension between desiring a slower life and navigating the realities of living within capitalism • How social media impacts the nervous system, and the power of stepping away to create space for real connection • Redefining self-worth beyond productivity and reclaiming inherent worthiness • Returning to creativity, play, and nature as pathways back to the body and a more regulated, grounded way of being • The power of small, consistent practices and self-compassion in creating sustainable, embodied change Connect with Olaiya Website: https://wearelionesse.com/ Instagram: @wearelionesse Free Gift: Body Bliss Practice → https://wearelionesse.kit.com/bodybliss Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  4. 8 Sept

    You Are Bigger Than Your Emotions with Mel Gutierrez

    In this episode, Mel Gutierrez shares a deeply personal story from a moment of emotional collapse and awakening during her college years when she reached a breaking point and received an unexpected inner message that shifted her understanding of herself forever. In this conversation, we explore: • What it means to be in emotional overwhelm without becoming consumed by it • The realization that you are bigger than your emotional state • The cultural conditioning that teaches us to distrust or suppress emotional experience • How learning to stay present with emotion can transform the way we move through life Reflection: What would shift if you allowed your emotions to arise without judgment? Connect with Mel Gutierrez: Website: blog.melgutierrez.com Free Gift: Step Out of Trauma and Into Power (5-day mini-course) → https://smarterbodies.ac-page.com/step-into-power Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  5. 31 Aug

    Coming Out, Belonging & the Courage to Be Seen with Meera Mohan-Graham

    In this episode, Meera Mohan-Graham shares the threshold of publicly coming out alongside her husband, a trans man, and how crossing that threshold opened the door to a deeper unraveling around belonging, self-abandonment, visibility, and learning how to fully be herself. In this conversation, we explore: The threshold of coming out and the fear, freedom, and uncertainty that can come with telling the truthHow marginalized people learn to negotiate with reality in order to survive, belong, and stay safeThe hidden cost of “staying small” and what we lose when we abandon parts of ourselves to be acceptedWhy being fully seen often requires risking misunderstanding, rejection, and discomfortThe ongoing process of unlearning survival patterns and reconnecting with our own instincts, truth, and voiceWhy thresholds are rarely an ending point, but instead the beginning of a deeper becomingThe questions that can change everything: What is it that I truly want? and What is what I’m doing now costing me? Connect with Meera Mohan-Graham Website: https://www.meeragraham.com Instagram: @meeramograham Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meeramograham Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  6. 24 Aug

    When The Old Life No Longer Fits with Annalyn Cruz

    In this episode, Annalyn Cruz explores her lived experience of thresholds, leaving the familiar, answering a deeper call, and navigating the identity shifts that come with choosing yourself in a new way. In this conversation, we explore: The threshold of leaving a stable career to fully step into purpose, and the courage it takes to trust the unknownHow past versions of ourselves resurface during moments of growth, asking to be seen, heard, and integratedThe unraveling of perfectionism and hyper-independence, and learning to receive support without losing your sense of selfThe grief that comes with releasing old identities, paths, and expectations, and why it’s a necessary part of transformationThe “oh sh*t” awakening moment when you realize your life no longer fits, and the power of choosing differentlyReclaiming self-trust by shifting from “what if it doesn’t work out” to “what if it does”The importance of community, support, and ancestral connection when navigating life’s thresholdsThe practice of celebrating your wins and recognizing the abundance already present in your life Connect with Annalyn Website: https://groundedinwisdom.co/ Substack: https://annalyncruz.substack.com/ IG: @groundedinwisdom Free Gift: Awaken To Your Spark Clarity Session Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  7. 17 Aug

    Allowing Desire To Be Your Compass with Jenna Ward

    In this episode, Jenna Ward shares the threshold that transformed her life: the realization that the life path she had followed no longer felt aligned. What began as a quiet ache for more became a journey back to her body, her desires, and a deeper way of living rooted in embodiment rather than achievement. In this conversation, we explore: The threshold of realizing that success, achievement, and doing everything "right" may not lead to fulfillmentHow disconnection from the body can show up as dissatisfaction, numbness, illness, or a longing for something moreThe role of desire as a source of wisdom and guidance rather than something to suppress or dismissWhy following your desires often requires untethering from external validation, approval, and the scripts you've inheritedPractical ways to connect with your desires through values, embodiment, and moving meditationCreating rituals that support transitions, boundaries, and greater presence in daily lifeConnect With Jenna Ward Instagram: @jennawardco Website: jennaward.co Free Gift: Self-Coaching Through Embodiment Mini Training + Workbook → https://jennaward.co/self Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

  8. 13 Aug

    Self-Devotion Series: Why Self-Devotion Matters

    In this episode, Taylor Holliday explores what self-devotion truly means and why it isn't about becoming someone new, but about learning to stop abandoning yourself. Through personal stories of reconnecting with her body through dance and supporting a client in releasing guilt and embracing the present, she shares how shifting the way we relate to ourselves can transform our relationship with our bodies, emotions, and desires. Taylor introduces the practice of Somatic Spellwork as a way to reconnect with your body through movement, expression, and presence. In this conversation, we explore: Why self-devotion isn't about fixing, improving, or becoming someone different, but about building a more compassionate relationship with yourselfHow many of us learn to relate to our bodies as projects to manage instead of places of wisdom, trust, and belongingThe difference between living from external expectations and living from the truth of what your body is communicatingThe practice of Somatic Spellwork and how intuitive movement can help you reconnect with your body, release what no longer serves you, and express what feels trueWhy presence, self-compassion, and embodied awareness are the foundation of building deeper self-trustHow creating simple daily rituals of self-devotion can help you return to yourself, honor your desires, and make choices that feel aligned with who you truly are Continue Your Self-Devotion Journey Your relationship with yourself is built one choice at a time. Desire Daydream is a free guided meditation and desire-mapping practice to help you reconnect with what you want and make space for your deepest desires. Listen to Desire Daydream → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/reconnect-with-desires Inner Oracle is the perfect place to begin. This guided ritual will help you deepen your relationship with your intuition and learn to trust what you already know is true for you. Explore Inner Oracle → https://taylorhayesholliday.com/inner-oracle Self-Devoted is my six-month one-on-one coaching experience for people who are ready to stop second-guessing themselves, reconnect with their bodies, emotions, and intuition, and create a life that feels alive, expansive, and undeniably theirs. Join the Self-Devoted Waitlist → https://taylorhayesholliday.aweb.page/self-devoted-coaching

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Conversations at the Threshold is a podcast for women who are ready to stop people-pleasing, trust themselves more deeply, and choose a life that reflects who they truly are. Through honest storytelling, embodied practices, and grounded spiritual wisdom, each episode invites you to reconnect with your body, honor your desires, and move through life’s thresholds with greater self-devotion, presence, and sovereignty.