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 between 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.

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.”

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.

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.

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 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.

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, partnership, motherhood, and personal truth.

What begins as a nostalgic return to Kristin planning Sarah’s wedding quickly opens into a much larger exploration of thresholds—those quiet, often disorienting moments where life asks us to outgrow who we’ve been.

Kristin reflects on the early days of building her wedding business while working full-time, the instinctive trust that shaped her creative path, and the evolution from wedding design into storytelling for brands through The Prism House. Along the way, she shares how motherhood, partnership, and creative expansion reshaped everything she thought she knew about capacity, identity, and leadership.

The conversation deepens as Kristin speaks candidly about burnout, over-functioning, and the long process of shifting out of survival-driven patterns shaped in childhood. She names the moment she began to move from constant doing into creative clarity—and how that shift quietly changed her marriage, her work, and her sense of self.

A pivotal part of this episode is Kristin’s time in a remote A-frame in Vermont, a self-imposed retreat that became a turning point for reflection, grief, and truth-telling. From there, she shares the unfolding of a major life transition, including divorce, the complexity of love, and what it means to choose alignment even when it disrupts everything familiar.

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 down isn't the opposite of vitality—it's the pathway to it. Drawing from her weekly movement class inside Juice, Sarah walks through the practices that help women move from depletion and over-functioning into greater expression, stability, and joy.

From lubrication and balance work to playful release, receiving, and community, she explains why nervous system healing doesn't have to be serious to be transformative.

Sarah also explores why many of us resist slowing down, how our default patterns lead to burnout, and why small, doable steps matter more than getting it "right."

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 chronic stress, the invisible mental load, and nervous system dysregulation impact women's hormones throughout midlife.

Kate shares her personal journey through burnout, perimenopause, grief, and overwhelm, and how those experiences led her to create a radically different way of living—one that honors the natural rhythms of the female body instead of fighting against them.

Together, Sarah and Kate discuss cyclical living beyond the clichés, including the color-coded family calendar that helps Kate's children understand her changing needs, supports healthier communication at home, and teaches body literacy from an early age.

This episode is a powerful invitation to stop treating yourself as a machine and start listening to the wisdom your body has been offering all along.

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 “75% done without their effort,” this episode becomes an exploration of the unseen forces that sustain us every day. In a world where we are often asked to do more than we feel is possible, widening out to include all that is being done without our effort can be wildly stabilizing.

Through stories of lint in the dryer, changing seasons, organ systems, pregnancy, spring growth, and the intelligence of the natural world, Sarah invites listeners to widen their perspective beyond survival mode and hyper-responsibility.

When we live as though everything depends entirely on us, our nervous systems tighten, our stress increases, and our perception narrows. But when we begin noticing the “unearned majority” — the countless processes already unfolding without our management — something in the body softens.

This episode is a gentle reminder that while responsibility is real, we are not alone in carrying 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 father at age 15, describing a piercing sense of love, continuity, and the dissolution of fear around death. From there, her life unfolds as a series of inner calls that eventually lead her to Calcutta at age 21, where she lives and serves alongside the Missionaries of Charity.

In Calcutta, Therese encounters the raw edges of human suffering and devotion—an experience that strips away narrative, identity, and mental certainty. What remains is presence, service, and an embodied confrontation with what it means to be alive in a world of profound disparity.

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 matters?

In this mini-musing, Sarah explores the deeper meaning of “tolerance” through the lenses of perimenopause, nervous system regulation, relationships, hormones, breathwork, and emotional truth. As many women move through midlife and begin noticing less patience for what once felt manageable, Sarah asks an important question: are these shifts something to support so they don’t feel so hard, or a threshold to really to listen to? Or, perhaps is there a sacred third where we can find support and keep our sensitivity to truth.

This conversation weaves together the science of estrogen, CO2 tolerance, nervous system capacity, relational dynamics, and emotional authenticity; all pointing toward a deeper inquiry about truth, integrity, and what happens when our bodies stop helping us override ourselves.

Rather than framing increased sensitivity as dysfunction, Sarah invites us to consider how support, regulation, and greater capacity might help us attune more honestly to our lives instead of bypassing what’s real.

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 reflective third conversation with returning guest Amina AlTai, Sarah and Amina explore the tender realities of life after a major threshold, from launching a bestselling book to navigating burnout, ambition, existential questioning, and the ongoing practice of staying resourced in an overwhelming world.

Amina shares honestly about the hidden emotional terrain of book launches, the pressure of metrics and expectations, and how she had to embody the exact teachings from her book The Ambition Trap throughout the process. Together, Sarah and Amina unpack nervous system care, rest, recovery, identity, over-responsibility, and the ways many of us are quietly asking: “What is the point of all of this?”

This conversation is both grounding and expansive, a reminder that we do not have to hold the entire world alone, and that there are ways to remain deeply engaged without abandoning ourselves in the process.

Amina first joined Sarah in season one for a heartfelt conversation on burnout, codependency, and the hidden ways ambition can disconnect us from ourselves. She returned in season three to explore regenerative ambition, nervous system healing, and redefining success in a culture driven by urgency and overwork. If today’s episode resonates, go back and listen to witness the evolution of Amina’s work—and the deeper layers of these conversations unfolding over time.

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 practical tools and compassionate reframes for navigating co-sleeping, separation anxiety, power struggles, “bossy” behavior, emotional regulation, and parenting as a team.

Together, they explore how children’s behaviors are often forms of communication, not proof that something is wrong, and how parents can shift from fear, rescue, shame, and control toward connection, encouragement, and empowerment.

This conversation is filled with wisdom for parents learning how to regulate themselves while raising children who challenge, mirror, and deeply transform them.

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 a radically different framework for parenting strong-willed children; moving away from punishment, shame, and control, and toward connection, compassion, and what she calls “democratic firm and kind parenting.”

Together, Sarah and Wendy unpack what it really means when a child resists, pushes back, or escalates—and how those moments can be seen not as defiance, but as communication.

They also explore how parenting becomes a mirror for our own nervous system patterns, why repair matters more than perfection, and how breaking generational cycles often requires both courage and practice in real-time, imperfect moments.

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 built brands, led communities, and helped people reconnect to their joy, intuition, and personal power.

In this episode I sat down live with my Juice members (a nervous system reset- movement membership) for a Q&A conversation with Elisabeth Kristof. She is the founder of Neurosomatic Intelligence, co-host of the Apple Top 100 podcast Trauma Rewired, and one of the leading voices applying neurology to complex trauma resolution. Elisabeth has been working in neuro and movement based therapies since 2007, and what she brings to this conversation is both the science and the lived humanity of it.

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 rehabilitation for personal growth and healing.

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.

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.