Standing at the Threshold

On healing, intuition, and becoming a Transition Doula

This essay is a little more personal than usual. It’s part reflection, part announcement — a glimpse into the questions I’ve been carrying and the new path that’s unfolding because of them.

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I am almost physically healed from the necrotizing fasciitis that upended my life in July. My body is stronger every day, but the deeper healing is ongoing. I’ve gone through so many different iterations of finding meaning in this episode of my life.

I keep coming back to the same question: Why?
Why do you, Universe, keep giving me such dramatic challenges?

I am listening. I am honing my intuition daily. I try to trust the whispers. But it seems that I don’t get gentle nudges — I get kicks in the ass that propel me in the direction I’m meant to go. And each time, I am stretched to a new edge.

And if I’m honest, I know that in some ways I’ve asked for this. When I prepare for a plant medicine journey, I enter with the prayer: Show me what I need to know to accelerate my growth and purpose. I don’t ask for comfort — I ask for truth. I ask for intensity. And life has been generous in answering that prayer, even when it comes in ways I never expected.

No matter what the situation — illness, heartbreak, reinvention, or even the rare blissful peak — I always seem to find myself at the extremes. And I’m learning that this is not coincidence. It’s my calling.

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Becoming a Transition Doula

We often hear the word doula in the context of birth: someone who is present, grounded, devoted, and fully there for you during one of life’s most intense passages.

But transitions aren’t only about births. They happen whenever life delivers a rupture — a health diagnosis, a job loss, a relationship ending, a move, or even the quiet sense that something more is waiting for you just around the corner.

That’s why I am embracing this new identity: Transition Doula.

This is not time spent bouncing ideas off your mom or your best friend. This is devoted, intentional support — someone walking with you through the in-between, helping you hold your center as you discover what’s next.

Intensity has been my greatest teacher. What once felt like punishment, I now see as initiation. As your Transition Doula, I bring that understanding with me — not to shield you from intensity, but to help you meet it, metabolize it, and emerge from it more aligned with who you truly are.

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A Few of My Own Thresholds

I know what it feels like to stand in the in-between. Some of the thresholds I’ve walked include:

• Career – Leaving behind a 20+ year career in nonprofit leadership to follow the pull of my intuition into the unknown.

• Health – Moving through illness and recovery that required me to completely reset how I lived and worked.

• Place – Uprooting my life to follow callings across states and countries, landing in the Blue Ridge Mountains and in Costa Rica.

• Relationships – Releasing a marriage, friendships, and versions of myself that no longer fit — while learning to choose truth over pretending.

• Identity – Saying yes to the wild call of becoming an entrepreneur, creator, and guide when the safer path would have been to stay the same.

Each of these crossings taught me what it means to honor the threshold, and why no one should have to navigate it alone.

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What I Offer

I’ve shaped three containers for this work:

🌒 Threshold Session – A single 90-minute deep dive for those in the storm of change, who need clarity and grounding right now.

🌕 The Passage – A short-term container (3–6 sessions) to walk with you as you move through a particular transition with more trust and less fear.

🌔 The Integration – Ongoing monthly support for those who have crossed the threshold and want to anchor into their new life with clarity and strength.

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An Offering for My Community

Because you’ve been with me on this journey — reading, listening, walking beside me — I want to honor that.

✨ For current subscribers and my email list, I’m offering 20% off any of these packages booked in September. ✨

This is my way of saying thank you for trusting me, for showing up, and for believing in your own transformation.

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If You’re Standing at the Threshold…

Whether you are in the thick of a health challenge, grieving the end of a relationship, considering a career leap, or simply feeling that something new is calling you, I would be honored to walk with you.

To learn more or book a session, visit www.goddessintraining.online or reply directly to this email.

Because thresholds are not meant to be crossed alone.

With devotion,
Sarah
Your Transition Doula