Have you ever wondered what might happen if you abandoned the endless expectations and tasks on your to-do list?

In this week’s episode, I explore what it really means to release urgency, honor our capacity, and create space for others to show up for us.

Together, we’ll look at:

• Why releasing the pressure to do everything can open the door to unexpected support
• How stepping back from a project can actually expand your reach
• Why tending to your own needs and pleasure makes your giving more sustainable and abundant

If you’ve been feeling the weight of “holding it all together,” this episode is an invitation to pause, soften, and consider: What could I set down, even just for now?

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Tele Darden is a somatic coach, teacher, and facilitator with an international reach who supports visionary practitioners to bring their most authentic, embodied medicine into the world. She's been in practice since 2007, accumulating thousands of hours of body work and holding space as a coach.

I first got to cohabitate a space with Tele when I was training with Brigit Viksnins of Alchemical Alignment. Tele’s presence was so grounding, so intuitive, and so wise. She is a living example of her belief that well-resourced practitioners can become wellsprings of healing for all that seek them.

I’m thrilled to invite Tele to Threshold Moments. Please enjoy this conversation where we explore:

• Aligned timing and moving slowly
• Cultivating presence while moving fast
• Why Tele returned to school after being a teacher for a decades
• Hitting the “is this it?” moment in mid-life
• What to do when things feel stable but stale
• Centering devotion in hard times

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"What happens when we meet the body where it is with safety, presence, and layered support?"

In this episode, I’m offering a grounded, relational explanation of what the nervous system is — not just in scientific terms, but in terms you can really feel.

Tune in as we explore:

• 3:40 The science of the nervous system
• 7:10 Polyvagal theory
• 14:00 Regulation vs overwhelm
• 20:45 How the body keeps the score
• 22:00 Dysregulation and outdated patterns
• 30:00 Softening your protective mechanisms

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In a world that praises endless achievement and self-sacrifice, Amina AlTai has emerged as a voice of profound clarity, showing us that ambition can be regenerative instead of extractive, rooted in community rather than supremacy culture.

Her work calls us to remember that our nervous systems, relationships, and self-worth are often tangled in how we pursue success. She teaches us to recognize the traps of toxic ambition as well as how to build something more sustainable, dignified, and truly life-giving.

Today we welcome Amina AlTai back to the podcast to discuss her new book The Ambition Trap. Tune in her to hear us discuss:

• How supremacy culture upholds hustle culture
• Global High Intensity Activation and syndromal physiology
• The power of speaking slowly
• Ways to build momentum and choose urgency intentionally
• Healthy ambition vs Painful ambition
• Learning to speak out with layers of support
• Codependency, boundaries, and reclaiming agency

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• Listen to Amina’s Podcast Amina Change Your Life
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Welcome, dear listeners. Today I’m delighted to welcome my friend Jennifer Racioppi back to the podcast.

Jennifer is a speaker, coach, astrologer, and the author of Cosmic Health. In this conversation, we commune with the stars to learn what the forecast for 2025 will look and feel like, as Jen weaves her understanding of life into her astrological insights.

We also explore the concept of "shame-based ambition," where one's drive is fueled by the need to prove worth through constant outward accomplishment, and discuss why taking slow action from a heart-centered place is more nourishing for your nervous system.

Tune in to learn more about:

• How Mars retrograde will impact our transition from 2024 to 2025
• Attending to our needs without relying on external achievements
• The critical role of community support in navigating emotional traps
• Balancing fiscal responsibilities with self-care
• Why slowing down is almost always the answer

Let’s start of 2025 small doable steps. Join me in Resourced, my four-month program that begins in January. I can’t wait to support you.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

• 051 - Jennifer Racioppi: Resilience and Self-Liberation

Happy holidays, dear listeners. Today’s episode is a gift to everyone who’s parenting through the holidays.

Whether you’re parenting your children, yourself, or even your parents, this episode is a reminder that you’re not alone in the stress of this season. I also offer a few small doable things you can do to support your family in moving through the upcoming weeks feeling safe, calm, and joyful.

I hope you’ll tune in for a half-hour of nervous system support during this busy time. Then click here to learn more about my four-month Nervous System Healing program for moms who want to bring more magic into their lives and homes. We begin in January. Join us.

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Welcome, dear listeners. Today, we continue our exploration of nervous system healing with a lesson on the reticular activating system (RAS) and the power of curiosity.

It’s important to tend to the RAS, because it helps us break limiting beliefs by learning to ask better questions and manifest new possibilities. And we can learn to engage the RAS by crafting “show me” statements and embracing the power of wonder and awe.

These are practices we’ll explore in this 30-minute episode and that I’ll be teaching in-depth in my upcoming 12-week program, Resourced.

I hope you’ll tune in then click here to learn more about this four-month Nervous System Healing program for moms who want to bring more magic into their lives and homes. We begin in January. Join us.

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Your body knows exactly what you need. But it can be hard to hear what it’s saying and to heed its wisdom and warnings.

So in today’s episode, I’m sharing practicals tools for embracing your body as your “no-BS GPS” and creating the layers of support you need to know the direction your soul wants to go and to find the capacity and courage to follow it.

If you’re craving a more authentic, pleasurable, easeful life, please tune in to this episode and then join me in Resourced, my four-month Nervous System Healing program for moms who want to bring more magic into their lives and homes.

Resourced begins in January. I can’t wait to support you in 2025.

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Welcome back to Threshold Moments. Today we’re continuing our exploration of nervous system resilience with the transformative power small doable pieces.

Sometimes when we feel overwhelmed or find ourselves in a trauma response, we slip into all-or-nothing thinking. But typically all we need to do is take one step forward to create nourishing momentum.

Brigit Viksnins calls this "small doable pieces." And in this episode, I share how this practice works and a few ways that small doable pieces have transformed my business, my parenting, and my life.

So if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, underwater, or unable to move forward, I hope you’ll tune in to learn:

• The interplay between the nervous system and trauma responses
• How all-or-nothing thinking can leave us stuck in a freeze state
• The medicine we find in small doable pieces
• How to de-stack hard habit & patterns
• Why I choose to speak slowly & how it helps

Because, when we take small doable steps over time, it can change the way we feel, the way we think, and what we believe.

And if you’d like to practice small doable pieces together, please join me in Resourced, my four-month program that begins in January. I can’t wait to support you in 2025.

• 029 - Brigit Viksnins: Alchemical Alignment
• 060 - Kate Northrup: From Scarcity to Plenty

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Welcome, dear ones. Today I am resharing one of my favorite practices from 21 Days of Untapped Support — Right Distance.

Right distance is about transitioning from all-or-nothing thinking to nuanced choice. We can cultivate right distance in our relationships, our workplaces, our creative projects, and our online presence.

Join me as we explore—

• How to release all-or-nothing thinking & play with the in-between
• The relationship between right distance, right relationship & right timing
• Examples of cultivating right distance with work, people & social media
• How to find right distance when you end up in a misaligned position
• “I wonder” prompts for new possibilities

And if you’d like more support in practicing right distance as you cultivate nervous system resilience, please join me in Resourced, my four-month program that begins in January. I can’t wait to support you in 2025.

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