Threshold Moments

Hello, dear ones!

Today we're talking with Elena Brower, a woman who has profoundly impacted my life due to the integrity with which she lives her own.

Elena is a mother, mentor, artist, teacher, bestselling author and host of the Practice You podcast. Her first poetry collection, Softening Time, comes out today!! Please do yourself a favor and grab a copy or two!

Together, we discuss the powerful nature of weaving self-care into our daily lives, respecting and honoring our children, choosing solid partners, end of life reflections, and love. Join us.

Join us to learn about:

• The importance of having a deeply supportive partner
• The profound nature of men's circles
• Parenting children with their humanity and autonomy in mind
• The difference between repressing and re-patterning anger
• Holding space for healing
• Honoring ourselves and our deceased loved ones through the grieving process
• Opening ourselves up to perspectives that differ from our own

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Welcome, friends. Today I've invited my dear friend Therin Pohley to join me for a conversation about the seasonal shifts our bodies undergo in the Spring.

Therin is an esthetician who has a profound passion for self-care and whole body wellness. She has a distinctive and extensive knowledge thanks to her 20 years in the beauty and wellness industry. And she thrives on demonstrating to customers how intuitive skincare can be when we live in harmony with nature.

Together, Therin and I explore how this season invites a natural detox and why the skin can be a reflection of the inner and outer world. Therin also shares some of her favorite, simple practices for spring, including making nettle tea and lymphatic massage. And we reflect on the meaning of the spring-like saying — two steps forward, one step back.

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Welcome, friends. Today I'm talking with Nitika Chopra about something over 130 million Americans struggle with — living with chronic illness.

Nitika is a certified life coach, wellness entrepreneur, founder of the Chronicon event, and a motivational lifestyle guru. It is her life's purpose to teach radical self-love and help people with chronic illnesses thrive.

In this conversation, we explore what it means to really live with chronic illness, Nitika's relationship with God, and even a bit about divorce.

Join us to learn about:

• The emotional component and social challenges of chronic illness
• How a connection with God helped Nitika through her toughest times
• How Nitika's understanding of intuition changed through divorce
• Managing your energy levels when you have a chronic illness
• The frustration of feeling like you can't show happiness if you want to be believed

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Welcome, friends. In today's episode, I'm reflecting on creating the conditions for more easeful nervous system regulation and how we know that healing is happening.

I talk about the Activation Map by Peter Levine, which was updated into the "Three Directions Map," by Brigit Viskins to include looping. When activation occurs we may have the ability to distract and sooth back down to stabilization, the first direction. We may find ourselves looping in dysregulation, the second direction. Finally, there may be a possibility to go higher into activation without looping and come all the way down to the other side toward completion, integration, and extinction; this is the third direction.

Creating conditions can help support us to move through the entire process. Creating conditions and integrating these new patterns may happen in small pieces over time.

Join me as we explore our somatic experiences and the power of pause, choice, community, distance, self-care and boundary repair as conditions for well-being.

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• 010 - Mini Musings: Preparation
• 001 - Michael Leary: The Power of Your North Star
• 013 - Tamika Schilbe Cole: The Truth About Truth Aches
• Peter Levine, In An Unspoken Voice
• Alchemical Alignment with Brigit Viskins
• Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
• Polyvagal Theory from Dr. Stephen Porges
• Tele Darden

Welcome, friends. Today we bring you Tamika Schilbe Cole for a discussion about her new book TruthAches: Everything You Need to Know About Speaking—and Living—Your Truth.

Tamika is an author, yoga instructor, and psychotherapist in private practice specializing in anxiety, trauma, betrayal, injury recovery, chronic illness, speaking difficult truths, spiritual support (multi-faith), and pandemic grief, loss, and trauma.

In this conversation, we explore the depths and shallows of truth aches—what they are, how they impact us and our relationships, and how we can live more embodied and honest lives.

Join us to learn about:

• The work of improving our honesty
• How speaking our truth is the gateway to deep intimacy in our relationships
• How truth aches can be contagious
• Striking when the iron is cold
• Bee stings and liver function

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Welcome, friends. In today's episode, I'm reflecting on the importance of taking our teachers and ourselves off the pedestal.

I talk about my experiences as a yoga teacher, the grief of realizing our gurus are fallible, and a lesson I heard from Elizabeth Lesser over 13 years ago— that we're all just bozos on the bus.

Join me as we release our heroes and come back to ourselves, so we can embrace paradox and step into the whole story.

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• Learn more about Self-Awakening Yoga with Don & Amba
• Episode 2 - The Cycle of Awareness

Welcome, friends. Today we bring you Jackie Gallo.

Jackie has walked many paths. All of them have something to do with filling a gap between a very system-based protocol and a more human-based exploration. Currently, Jackie is the Director of Education at Roots, a place-based micro school that she created during the pandemic and continues to expand on every year.

In this conversation, we explore the thresholds of giving birth, starting businesses, and being fully vulnerable in our relationships.

Join us to learn about:

• Jackie's journey moving to Maine to become a midwife
• How to step into being vulnerable and witnessing each other
• Remembering our resource-rich communities
• Where Jackie's business ideas come from
• How she transitioned from renting a yoga space to running a school
• Having the audacity to ask for support (link in bio to make a $5 donation or more if the spirit moves you)

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Hello, everyone! Today, I will be talking about the Five Point Sequence, with a focus on the first point: Preparation.

How does your past inform how you currently build preparation into your life?

In this episode, I talk about the power of having a coherent preparation pattern, and how through somatic work we can go back on the timeline (timeline repair) and update and rewire patterning toward something that feels supportive and cohesive.

In the end, I share my inquiry around biohacking for longevity. What is hyper-preparation (over-efforting control and forgetting to live life while you have it now), and what is coherent preparation? To support these thoughts I offer two poems, one by Max Ehrmann and the other by David Whyte.

In this episode you'll learn:

• [02:10] The Five Point Sequence by Ray Castellino and used in Alchemical Alignment

• [05:40] Building Preparation into life

• [10:33] Trauma physiology and preparation.

• [15:03] Doing timeline repair to rewire and update patterns in the nervous system.

• [17:10] Is biohacking for longevity hyper preparation or just preparation?

• [21:44] Desiderata, by Max Ehrmann.

• [25:34] What to Remember When Waking, by David Whyte.

• [30:26] Takeaways from this episode.

Quotes:

• "Not just thinking that I should be able to go from one thing to the next thing to the next. Preparation might even be a pause, 'I'm going to take a pause. I'm going to notice my resources before I walk into that room, I'm going to notice my feet on the ground. I'm gonna broaden my surroundings. I'm going to notice my breath...'" -Sarah Tacy [07:40]

• "So if as a child, you felt unsafe when one shot when one parent came home, you probably became a pro at reading the room." -Sarah Tacy [14:00]

• "When we get wrinkles, we get grays, and as our bodies become less agile, these are steps towards our big let go." – Bryan Kest [18:27]
• "The more of the reserve we have, the better off we are." – Peter Attia [19:01]

• "You are a child of the universe." – Max Ehrmann [24:10]

• "What you can plan is too small for you to live." – David Whyte [26:43]

Connect with Sarah:

• Website: sarahtacy.com
• 21 Days of Untapped Support https://sarahtacy.com/21-days/
• Lean for Nervous System Support: https://sarahtacy.com/lean/

Hello, everyone! Today, we bring you Linda Sivertsen.

Linda and I talk about finding our own way to do the things we're pulled to do, trusting in our visions, and feeling the ache. Linda also gets into having grown children, her journey out of Hollywood, growing through motherhood, and the mission to save the wild horses.

Let's dive in!

Linda Sivertsen is an award-winning author; a New York Times bestselling co-author, TEDWomen talker (on the topic of Time Debt), and former ghostwriter who midwife's books at her popular writing retreats in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. She's the co-creator of Your Big Beautiful Book Plan with Danielle LaPorte, and The Beautiful Writers Group.

In this episode you'll learn:

• [05:45] Feeling the ache.
• [08:56] Following our own paths.
• [10:16] Trusting the visions.
• [17:47] When somebody reflects your dream back to you.
• [22:39] Leaving Hollywood to live off the grid.
• [28:21] Having grown children.
• [33:01] Grandkids.
• [39:51] The creative's frustration.
• [44:46] Meeting Martha Beck.
• [49:46] Her father's blessing.
• [53:32] Creating a support system.
• [54:45] Allowing ourselves to make errors.
• [58:58] Saving the horses.

Quotes

• "There's no right way to do it." – Linda Sivertsen [10:11]
• "Your writing is for something bigger." – Linda Sivertsen [20:40]
• "Whatever your dream is, it will find you." – Linda Sivertsen [25:43]
• "Friends don't let their friends create alone." – Linda Sivertsen [54:13]

Connect with Linda:

• Website: bookmama.com
• Facebook: Linda Sivertsen
• Twitter: @LindaSivertsen
• Instagram: @linda_sivertsen

• Beautiful Writers Podcast

• Beautiful Writers: A Journey of Big Dreams and Messy Manuscripts by Linda Sivertsen

Connect with Sarah:

• Website: sarahtacy.com
• 21 Days of Untapped Support https://sarahtacy.com/21-days/
• Lean for Nervous System Support: https://sarahtacy.com/lean/

Resources:

• Donate to help save the wild horses.
• #alpinewildhorses on Instagram.
• #alpinewildhorsearmy on Instagram.

Hello, everyone! Today I will be talking about creation and destruction, as we unpack the question — Where is there health within this pairing and where is there dysfunction?

In this episode, I also explore the relationship of existence and exile within groups and how group ecosystems create opportunities for healthy dynamic mutual growth and dynamic mutual destruction. And the inquiry at the end is about finding our sovereignty while being a part of an ecosystem. In this episode you'll learn:

• • [02:30] Creation and Destruction.
  • [03:00] Disempowerment Triangle: Victim, Perpetrator, and Savior
  • [03:34] Slow health for creation and destruction.
  • [04:01] Medium health for creation and destruction.
  • [05:09] Fast health for creation and destruction.
  • [05:39] Existence.
  • [08:08] Sharing in groups & group dynamics.
  • [10:25] Taking the path of sovereignty. The path to sovereignty is to exist no matter another's response to us.
  • [12:23] The Empowerment Triangle.
  • [13:15] It's no longer an all or nothing. There's a sustainable middle place.

Quotes:

• "As we grow more into our authentic selves, and as we grow in our capacity to be stable as somebody says something or does something that might normally exile us, we are growing in our capacity to be in this tension field. We can exist even as somebody else is having hard feelings that might be towards us, something about our very existence that might trigger them. We have the capacity to exist anyway. And that this is part of the path of sovereignty." – Sarah
• "Destruction doesn't have to be of my whole self, it does not have to be of my existence, but it can be of parts of myself that could be updated." – Sarah
• "We are working to be our sovereign selves in the face of great difficulty in which another person is not working on their awakening. We choose to do so anyway." -Sarah

Connect with Sarah:

• Website: sarahtacy.com
• 21 Days of Untapped Support https://sarahtacy.com/21-days/
• Lean for Nervous System Support: https://sarahtacy.com/lean/