Romancing the Threshold
A Podcast
Romance novels are doing the most serious psychological work in fiction right now, and almost nobody is talking about why.
Romancing the Threshold explores romance novels as threshold medicine: the shadow work disguised as pleasure, the collective dreaming hidden in genre fiction.
Through solo episodes and conversations with romance authors, host Vanessa Couto brings depth psychology, myth, and archetypal astrology into the stories millions of women are consuming without knowing why they can't stop.
The door says romance. The room holds something deeper.
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.