Threshold Witch

10/25/2025

I use muscle testing to guide most of my decisions. It’s not that it takes the place of choice, it just helps me get to clarity. Usually it’s a finger method, but sometimes it’s hard to get clear, you know?

Here’s a tried and true method that doesn’t rely on being clear or any skill at muscle testing!

How do you make your decisions?

When your intuition won’t give you a straight answer, turn off your brain and leave it to chance.

07/21/2025

From doubt to certainty - one person’s story of learning to trust their muscle testing: “Muscle testing gives you access to that. To the wisdom of your own soul, spirit, and cells. Reliable, accurate, clear, sovereign access. So you can stop wasting time and energy wondering and confused. So you can take action or wait for your moment with confidence.”

Read the story here: https://thresholdwitch.substack.com/p/what-if-your-body-knows

07/11/2025

Do you gobble your food?
Do you read, scroll, or watch something while you eat?
Do you sit down with your family, partner, or friends and have great conversation—sharing the little yay!s and oof, that’s hards of your day?

Well, I do all those things.

I know they say that paying attention to your food as you eat—chewing slowly, savoring the textures and aromas, appreciating the colors, breathing, not distracting yourself with screens or conversation—does all kinds of good things for your digestion. It activates the parasympathetic “rest and digest” system. Enhances nutrient absorption. Helps you register satiation. Supports a healthy gut biome.

All the stuff we know we need.

And still, after the first bite, I often barely taste it.

The Tangle of Eating
Eating is such a complicated, loaded part of life for me, and probably for most people. What to eat and what not to eat? How much to eat? When to eat, or not eat? What to eat together, and what to never eat together? Organic? Local? Home grown? Travel miles? Fair trade? Juicing, fasting, raw, oh my!

I once spent 45 minutes standing in front of the wall of chocolate bars at my local co-op, considering all the options, reconsidering, reading labels. Tears streamed down my face and I finally left, paralyzed, heartbroken, and emptyhanded.

I’ve made my peace with the organic/conventional dichotomy, the environmental and justice “options”, the virtue signaling, the foodie in me. And shopping, cooking, eating have become a little less stressful.

But lately, something new has come into my awareness...

Continue reading on my Substack: https://thresholdwitch.substack.com/p/how-to-eat-like-the-earth-is-alive

07/10/2025

After I left engineering, I began asking the question I couldn’t shake: What am I here to do?
I asked it all the time. It felt like hunger, thirst—homesickness.

I asked it during sessions with Kory, my healer and mentor. We even cleared blocks around receiving the answer.
Still, I waited. I listened. I tried to trust that the knowing would come.

And one day in early January 2005, it did.

I was reading Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch—the second book in the series. In it, Neale asks God:

“What is the best kind of education model for children?”

God replies:

“Waldorf.”

Then he goes on to explain why. But that word stopped me in my tracks—WALDORF—it was like a neon sign switched on in my brain.
I didn’t think it. I didn’t reason my way to it.
I just knew:

This is my path...

Read the rest of the post on my Substack: https://thresholdwitch.substack.com/p/part-3-your-longing-is-what-will

07/05/2025

Hey friends, I’d like to reframe something that I’ve been seeing and hearing in memes and other places: mocking and denigrating people for trying to monetize something that they’re good at or passionate about.

The problem is not that people are trying to monetize these things, the problem is that our society is not structured in a way that people are supported monetarily doing what they love. You’re supposed to go to work for someone else doing something you don’t love and that is killing your soul and then have hobbies to relieve the monotony and despair that your life is.

I see these people, probably lots of you reading this, as heroes and revolutionaries and radicals, who are bucking the system, or repurposing the system, as best they can to begin to create the world as it should be.

Thanks to all of you who take the leap of faith to rework this messed up system, and live a life of meaning and joy!

Happy Independence Day!

07/04/2025

Question: How do I begin the process of listening to myself and healing?

You are already beginning. Your question signals to your subconscious and your body that you are ready to heal and ready to listen. And the listening is the most powerful healing. Think of how relieved you feel when you finally feel heard about something really important to you. That is how all your wounds or wounded parts feel when you listen to them.

Is there something that’s been pinging you? A tree or plant that’s attractive to you that you could sit under and talk to? Or a desire to take a bath with candles or rose petals? Or a meditation class or group? Or now that you are asking you might see a modality that resonates - sound healing or automatic writing or dream work. You can start anywhere.

And listen to your parts. Listen to your thoughts - do you have self talk that puts you down or talks you out of things you’d like to do. These thoughts are protecting you from something. Probably something that was a danger in the past, but since it isn’t actually dangerous in the present it is only limiting you. But have compassion for yourself and those outdated parts. They helped you survive something and if you listen to their stories, they can heal and become allies in the present.

Listen and feel, let those old feelings that you weren’t safe to feel at the time out. Give them to the earth, or tell them to a tree, or write them in your journal and ask your angels and guides to help you release them.

Blessing on your path. You are at the beginning of a beautiful, arduous, possibly long journey, but you are not alone. And it will be worth it.

07/04/2025

Part 2: The First Yes
I didn’t mean to become intuitive. I just wanted to eat garlic bread again.

After leaving engineering, I entered a strange kind of in-between.
I’d stepped away from the world that made sense to my family, but I hadn’t yet landed in anything solid.
I was listening, but didn’t know to what.
I wasn’t trying to be a healer. I wasn’t trying to be anything.
But something was beginning.

At the time, I had food allergies—wheat, dairy, garlic, eggs, the list was long—pretty much everything that had been part of my diet. I was vegan and on an elimination diet, so I pretty much subsisted on rice and broccoli.
A friend mentioned a practitioner who worked in her building named Kory.
He worked with acupuncture, NAET, muscle testing, and something called “Healing from the Body Level Up.”
I had no idea what any of that meant, but something in me said: Yes. This.

So I went.

And it worked.

My symptoms began to shift. One by one, I got back the foods that I loved. I realized at some point that I wasn’t afraid of food anymore, afraid of eating and feeling terrible.
But it wasn’t just physical. We worked on emotional stuff too. And spiritual stuff.
Whatever I brought in—and I always, every week, I brought a list, scrawled on a tiny sticky note—for each item he would muscle test what modality to use and we would clear it.

Past life grudges. Karmic vows and contracts. Curses and seductions. Fibers and tangles.
We’d use colors, drawing, affirmations, incantations.
We’d ask my divine angels and guides to clear things.

It was wild.
And again, it worked.

Triggers and traumas that had always been part of my life began to soften and fade.

One day in a session, Kory said gently, as if it were the most normal thing in the world:

“You know you can talk to your guides yourself, right?”

I stared at him.

He explained. Everyone has guides.
They don’t interfere. They don’t override free will. But they’re always listening.
If you ask for help, they’ll offer it.

My science-y mind reared up its ugly head - it was not having it.

“Just try it,” he said. “Talk to them like they’re in the room.
You don’t have to believe. Just… act as if.”

Well, I never miss an opportunity to try something that seems impossible.

So that night, I did...

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I didn’t mean to become intuitive. I just wanted to eat garlic bread again. But gifts come in strange packages sometimes.

07/02/2025

I sat down to write a welcome email for my Substack - Things You Can't Put on a Resume - and this came out instead.

The Shift Is Here—and You’re Part of It
A welcome and an invocation for those walking the edge of the seen and unseen.

We, you and I, but also the world, are shifting away from the Materialism worldview because it doesn't actually reflect our lived reality, and it isn't good for the planet.

“Materialism is a worldview that considers matter as the fundamental substance of reality, and that all phenomena, including consciousness and mental states, can be explained by physical processes.” - Google AI

A sea change is coming, and you and I are part of it.

We know that there's more than what we can sense with our five senses, more than science can confirm. We know that the Earth is alive—that plants and animals and stones speak with their own voices and language. That we can sense the future. That we can change the past. That we receive messages from the spiritual realm through synchronicities—a song playing at the grocery store, a bumper sticker, the fragment of a conversation of a stranger.

We know that our mindset, our intentions, and our expectations create the world that we live in. We know that if/when enough of us radiate pure love, we will heal all the woes of humanity and wounds that we've inflicted on our beloved Mother Earth.

Whether it's the viral spread of Telepathy Tapes, or the growing blanket distrust of the media and the pharmaceutical/medical industry, or the grassroots passion of the No Kings marches, we see that the world around us is changing to mirror the hard-won changes we have made in ourselves.

This Substack is devoted to the devotion of animism, the magic of synchronicities, the alchemy of personal growth, the blessing of the guidance and support we cannot deny.

I will share the wild, unpredictable, uncanny, profound moments of one life—mine—that is dedicated to human spiritual evolution and ascension for the Earth and those dedicated to that path. I will share the mundane magic that I practice and discover anew every day. I will share the things I could never put on a resume, but that were always between the lines if you looked hard enough.

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06/28/2025

Something In Me Remembered
What if your gifts don't match your family's worldview? How trail work in Alaska and a quiet voice inside began to unravel the role I'd been trying to fit into.

I grew up in a family of engineers, atheists, realists. Science was our world view, even our religion. It was just The Way Things Are. What could be seen and proven - that was Real. And it was safe and comfortable

And yet—maybe you’ve known this longing too: I wanted to live in a world that felt more alive, MORE real than the flat one I could see with my eyes. A world with magic.

Read the full post:
https://thresholdwitch.substack.com/p/something-in-me-remembered

06/11/2025

The Void.

I, in quick succession, got three synchronicities around “the void.”

The first one was some reference to “screaming into the void.” I didn’t pay much attention to it because it was the first.

The second was laying on the couch and suddenly a book title caught my attention that I hadn’t seen before. Maybe my partner got this book, I don’t know, but suddenly I feel very interested in reading the title, which I have to squint to do because I don’t have my glasses on.

Finally, the blurred text resolves into “Touching the Void.”
Interesting. That’s two.

And shortly thereafter I am...

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(synchronicities calling me into release)

06/09/2025

I pulled one thread and ended up unraveling a whole sweater, so to speak.

Day 9 of Chani Nicholas’ Breakthrough Course invited us to reach out and listen to our inner critics—the part that scoffs at our hope, shrinks from possibility, braces against disappointment. If you don’t know, Chani recently offered a free 28-day guided course on her app to support having a breakthrough in some area of your life (Thanks Chani! I am loving the course!). My partner and I are doing it together, and it’s been a wild ride.

So anyway, I didn’t have to look far. I’m very familiar with that voice.

Chani called it the inner critic. I know it as something else: the loyal soldier.

I’ve used that name for a long time. It comes from those stories of Japanese soldiers who were trapped on forgotten islands in the Pacific for decades after World War II ended—still carrying out their orders, still surviving, because no one told them the war was over.

That’s how this part of me operates. Fiercely protective. Not wrong. Just out of time.

I recognized her voice as the one who surfaced when I first moved to Durango and dared to step publicly into my work as a healer.

Read the whole piece here:

When the war is over, but parts of you are still fighting.