Threshold Moments

Sarah Tacy
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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, fear, and possibility. Therefore this podcast is also about companionship because being accompanied and witnessed on the way through can be the most essential layer of support our nervous system and psyches can receive during a time of uncertainty and reclamation. I started this podcast because I deeply honor the full cycle or transformation, not just the sparkly ends. I think it's inspiring. And, it lets us know we're not alone on this journey home. My hope is that you will feel that in your bones: you. Are. not. Alone. You are in great company.

  1. 1d ago

    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 more spaciousness in your days, this episode offers both inspiration and practical wisdom for releasing urgency and finding your own rhythm — no matter how hectic your life may feel. ⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, sign up for my free 3-day nervous system workshop — Opting Out of Urgency — happening live on Zoom September 10-17. RSVP here: https://www.sarahtacy.com/opting-out-of-urgency Connect with Sarah Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week. Connect with Ginny Muir Follow Ginny on Instagram @ginnymuir Subscribe to Ginny's newsletter Listen to Ginny's past episode of Threshold Moments: The Ripeness of Midlife

    138 - Ginny Muir: How to Slow the Pace of Your Life

  2. Aug 25

    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." While this response once served an important survival function, many women now find themselves trapped in cycles of hyper-responsibility, people pleasing, urgency, resentment, and exhaustion. Sarah unpacks why the female nervous system often defaults to tending, managing, soothing, and caring for others before caring for ourselves—and why healing isn't about becoming detached or uncaring. Instead, it's about building the capacity to return to yourself first. Through personal stories, nervous system insights, and practical examples, Sarah explores what it means to move toward a new paradigm: I'm okay when I'm okay. We can care about others, without abandoning ourselves. In this episode: Why women are wired toward "tend and befriend" The nervous system roots of people pleasing Hyper-social behavior and hidden freeze responses Why urgency and burnout are often connected The difference between caring and over-identifying What happens when your child's pain activates your own wounds Practical nervous system tools for emotional regulation Clean anger, boundaries, and self-trust Why healing isn't about becoming unaffected Moving from reactivity to sovereignty Connect with Sarah Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week.

    137 - I'm Okay When I'm Okay: Rewriting the Female Nervous System

  3. Aug 18

    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 living from right now, with a grace that makes a listeners body settle. In this deeply honest and expansive conversation, Sarah sits down with writer, speaker, coach, and beloved internet friend Ruthie Lindsey to explore the thresholds that have shaped her life—and the wisdom she's found on the other side of them. Ruthie shares the story behind the pain narrative that defined much of her public identity: a devastating car accident at seventeen, a wire accidentally left in her brainstem, years of chronic pain, addiction to approval, the collapse of a marriage, spiritual deconstruction, nervous breakdowns, and the long journey of learning who she is beyond what she's survived. This may sound devastating, but somehow Ruthie lifts us all up during her story telling. She gives us home and holds up a light for anyone navigating their own threshold. Together, Sarah and Ruthie explore belonging, identity, chronic pain, somatics, spirituality, relationships, and the tender process of becoming more fully human. They discuss the difference betaween healing and fixing, why some thresholds never fully end, and how life can become richer, simpler, and more meaningful when we stop waiting to arrive somewhere else. This conversation is filled with laughter, honesty, and the kind of wisdom that can only come from living through what once felt impossible. In this episode: Growing up addicted to approval and external validation The emptiness that followed becoming homecoming queen The car accident that changed the course of Ruthie's life Living with chronic pain and redefining healing Why pain can become a portal rather than an obstacle Spiritual awakening, deconstruction, and Richard Rohr's concept of order, disorder, and reorder Learning to descend more fully into the body through somatics Letting go of identities built around suffering Finding joy in ordinary moments, sunsets, plants, and neighborhood cats How Ruthie met her partner Eric and the healing power of being deeply seen The role of relationships in co-regulation, repair, and transformation Why thresholds aren't always about reaching the other side About the Guest Ruthie Lindsey is a somatic coach, speaker, and author of There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing. After surviving a near-fatal car accident at seventeen and navigating decades of chronic pain, Ruthie has devoted her life to helping others reconnect with themselves through compassion, embodiment, and self-trust. Through coaching, retreats, writing, and speaking, she guides people through life's thresholds with humor, honesty, and a deep belief that every part of us belongs. Connect with Sarah Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week. Connect with Ruthie Lindsey Ruthie Lindsey - www.ruthielindsey.com Join Ruthie on Instagram, where she shares reflections on how to fall more in love with your life. Learn more about events she is hosting and teaching at this year. Read her longer writings on Substack - it's a space for deeper thoughts on healing, relationships, and being human And if her work resonates with you, she invites you to work with her!

    136 - Ruthie Lindsey: When Obstacles Become Portals

  4. Aug 11

    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 something has fallen away, but what comes next hasn't fully arrived. Through stories of leaving a successful business, navigating parenthood, grief, identity shifts, the pandemic, and years of rebuilding, she reflects on what can be learned in the uncomfortable space between endings and beginnings. If you're in a season of uncertainty, waiting, or wondering when the next chapter will finally emerge, this episode is an invitation to trust the process of becoming. Please pass this along to someone who could use the metaphor of "the gap." In this episode: Why Sarah decided to share her own threshold stories The metaphor of losing baby teeth and growing adult teeth Letting go of a business, identity, and old ways of being What the "gap" years taught about boundaries, resilience, and self-trust The hidden gifts that emerge during seasons of uncertainty Why small steps matter more than certainty Trusting the timing of what is trying to emerge in your life Connect with Sarah Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week.

    135 - The Gap: What Happens Between Who You Were and Who You're Becoming

  5. Aug 4

    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 closely to what wants to emerge. Since their last conversation, Sara has experienced a profound period of transformation. She stepped away from a thriving business, deleted social media, got married, moved to France, navigated grief, and entered perimenopause—all while learning to trust a slower, more sustainable pace. Together, Sarah and Sara explore Internal Family Systems (IFS), intuition, nervous system regulation, entrepreneurship, self-trust, and why healing often looks far less dramatic than we imagine. They also discuss the cultural differences between American productivity and the French art de vivre—the art of living—and how learning to value rest, pleasure, and spaciousness can become its own form of healing. If today's episode resonates, go back and listen to witness the earlier threshold where this journey began. 065 - Sara Avant Stover: Navigating the Depths of Heartbreak In this episode: Why Sara dismantled a successful business Finding stability through unexpected seasons Internal Family Systems (IFS) and healing the inner critic Learning to trust the next right step Moving through fear without bulldozing yourself Perimenopause and changing capacity The French art of living versus American productivity culture Why slowing down often accelerates healing Living with uncertainty and self-trust Creating a relationship with urgency that serves life instead of running it ⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, sign up for my free 3-day nervous system workshop — Opting Out of Urgency — happening live on Zoom September 10-17. RSVP here: https://www.sarahtacy.com/opting-out-of-urgency About the Guest Sara Avant Stover (she/her) is the author of three books; an intuitive business strategist; expert in women's spiritual leadership; and a Level 3 Certified Internal Family Systems Practitioner. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum Laude from Columbia University's all-women's Barnard College, she had a cancer scare, moved to Thailand, and embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. Since then, she's gone on to uplift tens of thousands of women worldwide. Through her work with spiritual women entrepreneurs, she creates transformative containers that blend practical business strategy with deep inner healing work. Sara has been featured in The New Yorker, Yoga Journal, The Huffington Post, Newsweek,  and on ABC, NBC, and CBS. She lives in France, and is online at SaraAvantStover.com. Connect with Sarah Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm. Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week. Connect with Sara Avant Stover Visit Sara's Offerings Subscribe to elle-même, Sara's Substack Follow Sara on Instagram Tune into Sara's Podcast

    134 - Sara Avant Stover: Life Beyond Urgency

  6. Jul 28

    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 convinced that what's happening now will last forever, that there are only bad options available, or that we need to fix everything immediately. Orientation helps widen our perspective and reconnect us to what's true, stable, and supportive in the present moment. Through stories of parenting, personal transformation, and an unexpected boating mishap off the coast of Maine, Sarah shares how orienting can help us move from panic and overwhelm into possibility and grounded action. Whether you're navigating a major life transition, feeling stuck in uncertainty, or simply looking for practical nervous system tools, this episode offers a simple practice that can help you find your footing. In this episode: What "orientation" means in nervous system work Why activation narrows our perspective The surprising wisdom of a gap-toothed child How life transitions often mirror natural cycles A real-life story of losing steering at sea Learning to identify layers of support during uncertainty How childhood experiences shape what we perceive as danger Moving from all-or-nothing thinking into possibility Practical ways to orient to safety, support, and stability A closing prayer for widening perspective and trusting ourselves Connect with Sarah Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week.

    133 - Orienting: The Nervous System Tool That Changes Everything

  7. Jul 21

    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 cost of suffering in silence, emotional perfectionism, people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, grief, recovery, and the journey back to self-trust. Vasavi shares her personal story—from childhood bullying and addiction to recovery, relationships, loss, and ultimately finding the freedom that comes from radical self-honesty. She offers practical tools for moving through rumination, regulating emotions, navigating conflict, and accessing what she calls the "Feeling, Friend, and Sage" voices within. This conversation is an invitation to stop abandoning yourself, start listening to your inner wisdom, and discover the clarity that emerges when you finally say it out loud. In This Episode, We Discuss: Why suffering in silence keeps us disconnected from ourselves The difference between rumination and healthy processing How speaking out loud can help regulate emotions Emotional perfectionism and conflict avoidance Learning to identify and interrupt old patterns The connection between voice, nervous system regulation, and self-trust Healing people-pleasing and validation-seeking behaviors Grief, identity shifts, and reclaiming personal power The "Feeling, Friend, and Sage" framework for self-awareness Why clarity grows when we stop emotionally babysitting others About the Guest Vasavi Kumar is a Voice Trainer, Therapist, and Founder of The Out Loud School — a training ground helping entrepreneurs sell, speak, and show up on camera without shrinking. She is also the author of Say It Out Loud and a former TV host with 16 years of entrepreneurship behind her. Her work sits at the intersection of identity, voice, and revenue. Clients come to Vasavi when they're done being the best-kept secret in their industry, and leave knowing exactly how to say it out loud. Resource: Stop Watering Yourself Down On Camera: https://www.vasavikumar.com/training Connect with Sarah Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week. Connect with Vasavi Learn more about Vasavi Resource: Stop Watering Yourself Down On Camera

    132 - Vasavi Kumar: Finding Your Voice & Reclaiming Your Truth

  8. Jul 14

    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. When we enter fight-or-flight states, our gaze often becomes fixed, our attention narrows, and our ability to perceive new options decreases. This episode offers three simple practices designed to help expand awareness, support nervous system regulation, and create a greater sense of safety and possibility. You'll learn: Why the brain filters the vast majority of incoming sensory information How stress affects visual perception and attention The connection between peripheral vision and nervous system regulation A calming eye-palming practice to reduce sensory input How widening your visual field can shift emotional and mental perspective A simple eye, head, and vestibular reset that promotes orientation and presence These practices can be used throughout the day, especially during periods of stress, overwhelm, screen fatigue, or when you feel stuck in repetitive thinking patterns. Take a breath, expand your view, and discover how changing what—and how—you see can influence the way you feel. Connect with Sarah Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt Learn more about Sarah's work Join Sarah's email list If this episode resonated and you're wanting deeper support, come join us inside Juice — Sarah's monthly membership where we practice this work together in real time. This is a space to build capacity, stay connected, and integrate what you're learning—week by week.

    131 - Vision and the Nervous System: Three Practices To Help Expand Awareness
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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, fear, and possibility. Therefore this podcast is also about companionship because being accompanied and witnessed on the way through can be the most essential layer of support our nervous system and psyches can receive during a time of uncertainty and reclamation. I started this podcast because I deeply honor the full cycle or transformation, not just the sparkly ends. I think it's inspiring. And, it lets us know we're not alone on this journey home. My hope is that you will feel that in your bones: you. Are. not. Alone. You are in great company.

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  • Creator
    Sarah Tacy
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    140
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2023
  • Show Website
    Threshold Moments

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