Romancing the Threshold
A Podcast
Romancing the Threshold explores the art of courting life's transitions with the curiosity of lovers.
Instead of rushing through uncertainty, what if we approached change like a courtship—with patience, play, and genuine fascination?
Through conversations about stories, from myth to romance novels, astrology and the landscape of transformation, we learn to fall in love with the in-between.
Each episode invites you to romance your own thresholds, discovering that the liminal spaces we fear might be the most fertile ground for becoming.
Breaking the Spell of Separation: A Celtic Shaman's Guide to Romancing Uncertainty
Celtic shaman Jane Burns reveals a revolutionary understanding of spiritual reciprocity: ancestors depend on living descendants to heal what they couldn't complete in life, helping spirits seek partnership not worship, and both worlds have genuine stakes in our collective evolution. Drawing from ancient Celtic wisdom, she illuminates how threshold spaces—those uncomfortable in-between moments we typically rush through—are actually portals where magic pools and transformation becomes possible. Most profound is her teaching that we exist in permanent threshold, constantly suspended between potential and fear, which is why the Celts deliberately courted liminal moments: standing with one foot in water and one on shore, celebrating twilight as powerfully as dawn, knowing that transformation is always a collaborative dance between worlds, never a solo battle.
The Bestiary of Unearthing
A solo episode closing out a transformative year. After cataloging 50 monsters across 125 romance novels, seven creatures emerged as threshold guides through grief and reclamation. These aren't just steamy reads but medicine for anyone exhausted from being the emotional regulator, the perpetually useful one. At its heart: the Beauty and the Beast truth that we need witnessing without performance—monsters who see us whole without needing our usefulness as currency. An invitation to recognize the guides waiting in your own threshold seasons.
What Story Are You Telling at the Threshold?
Rune reader and elder Ingrid Kincaid explores how every threshold demands sacrifice and why the stories we tell about change shape our experience of it. We discuss the gift of the liminal space, why resistance to change closes our curiosity, and why we need elders to step forward (not aside) to translate ancient wisdom for modern crossings. For anyone wanting to meet life's transitions as sacred exchanges rather than obstacles to overcome.
When the Avalanche Reveals the Valley
When an avalanche buries your world, what gets revealed? Author Ella Larson explores how catastrophic change becomes fertile ground for transformation when met with curiosity rather than white-knuckled fear. Drawing from her Hidden Folk series and her own move to Norway, she illuminates why being truly seen is both the price and gift of belonging—and how love transforms us from separate entities into something larger.
Walking to the Edge of Desire: My Husband Reads Romance
For our wedding anniversary week, Jason stepped into my world of romance novels—book boyfriends, monster lovers, and all—to share his grounded take on desire, trust, and crossing thresholds together.
Crossing the Threshold: On Liminality, Descent, and Becoming
Thresholds are pauses that ask us to release what’s past and step into what’s becoming. In this conversation with Brian Clark, we explore descent, beauty, and curiosity as companions for the crossing.
The Art of Falling in Love with the In‑Between
I’m so delighted to share the very first episode of Romancing the Threshold. This podcast has been brewing at the hearth for a long time, and now the doorway opens.