Threshold Moments

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 quietly keep us from the connection we desire. Christine shares her own journey from heartbreak, divor...

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 felt flat, exhausted, and disconnected from herself. She shares her experience of recognizing functional...

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 words and stories of women who have gone through Resourced . These aren't polished success stories. The...

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 burnout, identity shifts, nervous system work, and what it looks like to enter the "fertile void" without ru...

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 helped her begin unraveling a deeply ingrained pattern of running her business on adrenaline, and tog...

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 in urgency while preparing for her upcoming work—and realizing that the feeling of "I have to do this...

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 New York Times–featured feminine leadership coach, breathwork teacher, and Broadway-trained perform...

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 u...

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...

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 expan...

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 successfu...

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 tra...

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...

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, recove...

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 abil...

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 we...

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 insid...

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 througho...

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 u...

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 d...

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 perim...

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...

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,...

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, sh...

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. T...