https://www.vanessacouto.com/onliminality daily 0.75 2025-12-16 https://www.vanessacouto.com/onliminality/the-mafioso-at-the-threshold monthly 0.5 2025-12-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/ce15a222-ea63-4d5c-b54a-91d32f97604e/photo-1560684033-2a9ff3d2a03e.jpg On Liminality - The Mafioso at the Threshold There’s a moment in every threshold where we can simply say no. The call to change arrives—through crisis or opportunity, loss or unexpected opening—and we can refuse it. Sometimes that refusal brings such sweet relief. “I don’t have to deal with this today.” “Maybe things aren’t that bad.” “I can make this work a little longer.” But here’s what we underestimate: Resistance is a brilliant negotiator. It studied at the university of You. It knows your every vulnerability, your highest values, your deepest fears. It speaks fluent “reasonable” and can make staying stuck sound like the wisest choice you’ve ever made. This internal mafioso knows where all the bodies are buried—all your weak spots, your secret shames, your buried dreams. It knows that other time you tried to change and failed. 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Make it stand out The Choice of Hercules with Virtue/Areté to his right, and Vice to his left - Annibale Carracci (1596) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/88dd4e04-c88d-4b96-9e05-752e28ec8f64/photo-1718536469858-654c9e745bf1.jpeg On Liminality - Seeing Red: Honoring Mars in a Time of Courage* - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.vanessacouto.com/onliminality/sleeping-with-the-enemy-and-other-planetary-affairs monthly 0.5 2025-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/2ce2fa83-46e4-458b-865d-6db59a0f44c5/Venus_and_Mars_National_Gallery.jpg On Liminality - Sleeping With the Enemy (and Other Planetary Affairs) - Make it stand out Venus and Mars - Sandro Botticelli - c 1485. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/c7a8e49b-6e77-4ae9-8008-05bb9f4d3950/Ford_Madox_Brown_-_The_Last_of_England_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg On Liminality - 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McKeller - John Singer Sargent (circa 1917-1920) Door One: The Body As It Is Through this door, desire comes without negotiation or “if only” clauses. It’s raw, unflinching, a truth the mind can’t disguise for long. In a culture that teaches women to curate themselves for the male gaze, monster romance says: your body is not a project. It’s already the prize. Embedded tropes: Beauty and the Beast Dynamic, Primal / Instinctual Desire, Size / Power Difference Beauty and the Beast Dynamic: One partner is visibly monstrous, the other human. The transformation isn’t his appearance — it’s her acceptance of herself and of him. He doesn’t need to become a prince; he stays deliciously monstrous. Primal / Instinctual Desire: His attraction is immediate, overwhelming, rooted in a knowing older than reason. Through his desire, she reclaims her own body and senses — a rewilding of the self. Size / Power Difference: His physical power is a metaphor for his capacity to hold hers. 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A Podcast - Having your VISA Declined at the Threshold - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/90f805e1-5cfc-4568-9109-19716544e943/Jessiemarie.png Romancing the Threshold - A Podcast - Having your VISA Declined at the Threshold - Guest Bio: Jessiemarie Duplessis is a certified relationship facilitator, event coordinator, and self-described "sex witch" who brings profound curiosity and tender irreverence to every threshold she helps people cross. With experience ranging from library sciences to adult retail, she's spent years meeting people in their most vulnerable moments—whether they're seeking the perfect book or the perfect vibrator. Her gift lies in asking the questions that crack people open, gently challenging the stories we tell ourselves about our bodies, desires, and capacity for transformation. Currently, she weaves her various practices into creating containers where humans can explore what they're actually seeking beneath what they think they want. 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She is best known for her courses in Celtic Shamanism, which have been offered both in person and through a wide audience at the Shift Network. Her novel and shamanic handbook, Up A Tree, was published in 2014. She lives and practices in Connecticut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67bcfbfb35a75437c151a0ed/e5d1347f-6308-4640-8b55-4e7419970d92/TheHungrySea_1600x2560.jpg Romancing the Threshold - A Podcast - Breaking the Spell of Separation: A Celtic Shaman's Guide to Romancing Uncertainty - Her latest book: Tess Lynch has always preferred to walk an unconventional path and does not mind being set apart from the pack. But, when she loses her husband and 10-year old son, Declan, in a tragic accident, she suddenly finds herself without the support a tragedy of this magnitude requires. While her gift in helping others, through shamanic healing, strangely increases in the aftermath of these deaths, midwifing herself through her own grief and anger becomes almost impossible. 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