Threshold Moments

What Changes When You Become Resourced? Real Stories From Inside the Program
What actually changes when you stop simply learning about your nervous system and begin practicing a different way of being?
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah does something a little different: she shares the words and stories of women who have gone through Resourced.
These aren't polished success stories. They're reflections from women navigating real lives—businesses, relationships, parenting, health challenges, limited bandwidth, and moments when old patterns would normally take over.
You'll hear stories of women who have:
stopped rushing from obligation to obligation and created more space to choose how they respond
become less reactive—and experienced less shame when reactivity does happen
changed the way they navigate conflict with partners and children
developed a new relationship with time
found the capacity to set and repair boundaries they already knew needed to change
used small, doable nervous system practices in the middle of everyday life
benefited from Resourced even when they couldn't attend live or didn't have the bandwidth to do everything perfectly
Sarah also takes you inside the structure and intention behind Resourced—why repetition, feedback, support, and slowing down matter when you're trying to create patterns that actually become embodied.
Because the goal isn't to make life stop being hard.
It's to build a steadier nervous system foundation so that when life gets hard, you have more capacity, more choice, and more freedom inside of it.
In this episode, you'll hear:
Real stories and reflections from Resourced participants
Why nervous system regulation can change the way we experience urgency
What "resourcing first" can look like in work, parenting, relationships, and boundaries
Why you don't need perfect attendance—or perfect circumstances—to benefit from the work
How the Daily Drips help reinforce the work through small, repeatable practices
Why Sarah designed Resourced around repetition, feedback, support, and integration
What becomes possible when nervous system work moves from something you know to something your body can actually access
Ready to go deeper?
If Opting Out of Urgency has helped you recognize the ways urgency may be shaping how you work, relate, make decisions, or move through your life, Resourced is where we take this work deeper.
Resourced is a nervous system repatterning journey designed to move you from learning and supported practice into integration in your everyday life.
Enrollment for Resourced is open until October 22.
And if you haven't finished Opting Out of Urgency yet, you still have time. Replays are available through September 22.
Connect with Sarah
Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system reset to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm.
Resourced - A nervous system repatterning experience designed to help you build capacity, create more choice, and move through your life with greater agency instead of urgency.
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What happens when the life you built — the career, the identity, the pace, the version of you who could hold it all — no longer works?
In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah sits down with Emily Evans, a former Resourced student and founder of The Wander Years, to talk about functional burnout, identity shifts, nervous system work, and what it looks like to enter the "fertile void" without rushing to figure out what comes next.
Emily shares how she walked away from a decade-long career she loved after her body began sending signals she could no longer ignore. What followed wasn't an immediate reinvention. It was years of slowing down, letting identities fall away, learning to follow small "micro yeses," and discovering who she was when she stopped measuring herself by her output.
They also talk about Emily's recent trip to Mongolia, where she experienced a powerful real-life moment of trusting her body, honoring a clear no, and realizing just how much had changed.
Sarah and Emily explore the difference between urgency and sustainable aliveness, the discomfort of not knowing what comes next, the importance of play and joy, and how slowing down can create space for a version of ourselves that has been there all along.
Emily also shares how her own season of wandering eventually inspired The Wander Years — a space for women over 40 to connect, travel, move, read, play, and discover what might emerge when they don't have to have everything figured out.
In this episode, Sarah and Emily talk about:
What functional burnout can look and feel like
When your body starts telling you what your mind hasn't acknowledged yet
Leaving a successful career without knowing what comes next
Why slowing down doesn't always immediately create clarity
The "fertile void" and learning to stay with the unknown
Following micro yeses instead of needing the whole plan
Separating worth from productivity and output
How Resourced supported Emily during a major identity transition
Boundary repair, fawning, and feeling seen instead of ashamed
The moment in Mongolia when Emily trusted her body's no
Letting go of the need to be liked, perform, or manage everyone else's experience
Midlife, changing identities, and meeting a new version of yourself
Tracking joy, play, novelty, and connection
How Emily's own wandering led to the creation of The Wander Years
Ready to go deeper?
If Opting Out of Urgency has helped you recognize the ways urgency may be shaping how you work, relate, make decisions, or move through your life, Resourced is where we take this work deeper.
Resourced is a nervous system repatterning journey designed to move you from learning and supported practice into integration in your everyday life.
Enrollment for Resourced is now open.
And if you haven't finished Opting Out of Urgency yet, you still have time. Replays are available through September 22.
Connect with Sarah
Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system reset to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm.
Resourced - A nervous system repatterning experience designed to help you build capacity, create more choice, and move through your life with greater agency instead of urgency.
Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt
Learn more about Sarah's work
Join Sarah's email list
Connect with Emily
Emily Evans is the founder of The Wander Years, and Wander Women Social Club - a travel-inspired community for women 40+ to reconnect with friendship, fun, adventure, and themselves as they navigate a new era of life. Through small-group travel and meaningful connection, The Wander Years invites women to embrace the freedom of not having everything figured out - and to discover what comes alive when they give themselves permission to wander.
Follow The Wander Years on Instagram.
You can also find Emily's writing on her Substack, This Late Bloomer, where she shares real stories about starting over at 50, blooming late, and remembering who you actually are.

What if the goal of nervous system work isn't to become calmer—but to become more alive?
In this special episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah is joined by Kate Northrup for a conversation originally recorded during an Instagram Live about Opting Out of Urgency in 2025.
Kate shares how Sarah's work helped her begin unraveling a deeply ingrained pattern of running her business on adrenaline, and together they explore what becomes possible when we stop treating urgency as the only way to get things done.
Sarah shares why urgency can be so difficult to step away from—especially when it has been rewarded with success—and why opting out isn't about abandoning ambition, productivity, or the things that matter to us. It's about bringing agency and choice back into the equation.
They also explore why nervous system regulation doesn't always mean "calming down," what can happen when unexpressed fight-or-flight energy gets stuck in the body, and how creating the right outlets for that energy can lead to more clarity, creativity, joy, and aliveness.
And when you find yourself caught between "I must" and "I can't," Sarah introduces another possibility: the Sacred Third—the option we often can't see until our systems have enough support to recognize that another way exists.
In this conversation, Sarah and Kate explore:
Why urgency can feel necessary—even when it's exhausting us
The difference between urgency and agency
Why nervous system regulation isn't synonymous with being calm
How urgency can be an expression of fight-or-flight energy
Why your body may respond before your conscious mind creates the story
The role of expression, movement, and nervous system "outlets"
What Sarah calls the tension field between familiar patterns and a new way of being
The Sacred Third and finding possibilities beyond "I must" or "I can't"
Why supporting yourself before the to-do list is finished can actually change your relationship with time
What it can look like to build a life and business from life-force energy instead of adrenaline
As Kate says in this conversation, this work isn't simply a nice addition to our lives—it can become foundational to how we work, relate, choose, and move through the world.
Ready to experience this work for yourself?
⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, sign up for my free 3-day nervous system reset — Opting Out of Urgency — happening live on Zoom September 10-17. RSVP here: https://www.sarahtacy.com/opting-out-of-urgency
Connect with Sarah
Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system rest to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm.
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What if the thing you think is driving your growth is actually urgency?
In this Mini Musing, Sarah explores one of the sneakiest patterns of urgency: how easily it can disguise itself as dedication, productivity, ambition, or the desire to grow.
Sarah shares a personal example of catching herself in urgency while preparing for her upcoming work—and realizing that the feeling of "I have to do this now" was making it harder to access creativity, choice, and clarity.
She also explores the difference between urgency and agency, why moving quickly can cause us to repeat old patterns, and how stepping away from the problem—even briefly—can change what we are able to see.
The goal isn't to eliminate speed or become slow all the time. It's to develop more choices about how we move, so that urgency isn't making the decisions for us.
In this episode, Sarah explores:
How urgency can disguise itself as growth and dedication
Why moving fast can cause us to repeat familiar patterns
The difference between urgency and agency
How to recognize when you've lost a sense of choice
Why small pauses can change our perception and creativity
Moving between fast, medium, and slow rhythms
How nervous system regulation creates more possibility
Why small, doable pattern interrupts are more sustainable than all-or-nothing changes
What it means to ask, "What is the next right step?"
⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, sign up for my free 3-day nervous system workshop — Opting Out of Urgency — happening live on Zoom September 10-17. RSVP here: https://www.sarahtacy.com/opting-out-of-urgency
Connect with Sarah
Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm.
Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt
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In this episode of Threshold Moments, Sarah Tacy sits down with her dear friend, breathwork practitioner and coach Jeannine Yoder, to trace the origins of Opting Out of Urgency—including the moment Jeannine first spoke the phrase that would become the name of Sarah's workshop.
Jeannine Yoder is a New York Times–featured feminine leadership coach, breathwork teacher, and Broadway-trained performing artist. For over 15 years, she has trained coaches, healers, and facilitators while guiding transformational breathwork experiences, retreats, and private sessions rooted in nervous system regulation, somatic healing, embodiment, and ritual. She is the founder of Huntress House, a sacred studio for feminine awakening in Easton, Connecticut.
Jeannine shares how urgency once functioned as the fuel source of her life. Coming from a childhood where her nervous system learned to respond to a lack of safety, she became exceptionally good at identifying problems, mobilizing quickly, achieving, and creating solutions. But over time, that pattern became a cycle of desire, intensity, achievement, depletion, exhaustion, and then finding something new to mobilize around.
The surprising part? Even after her external circumstances became safer and more stable, her nervous system didn't automatically slow down.
Together, Sarah and Jeannine explore what it means to opt out of the internal experience of urgency—not necessarily to move slowly, do less, or give up ambition, but to stop manufacturing pressure in order to feel alive.
They talk about:
Why urgency can feel like safety, motivation, and even creativity
What it feels like to have nothing urgent to solve
The difference between genuine energy and the feeling of "I need to handle this so I can finally relax"
Why opting out of urgency can feel disorienting before it feels peaceful
How black-and-white thinking keeps us locked into urgency
The power of finding a "sacred third" instead of choosing between two extremes
How co-regulation can help us access choices we can't see when we're activated
Why our relationships can change when we stop responding from old patterns
Learning to leave things unfinished without feeling unsafe
The practice of "exhale first, and then respond to what actually needs me"
Why creating spaciousness can allow grief, desire, and other feelings to surface
How small, digestible steps can help us build capacity for a different way of living
At the heart of the conversation is a simple but radical question:
Can I have a beautiful, meaningful, creative life without manufacturing pressure in order to feel alive inside?
And perhaps an even deeper one:
Who am I when nothing urgently needs me?
⭐️ If you enjoy this episode, sign up for my free 3-day nervous system workshop — Opting Out of Urgency — happening live on Zoom September 10-17. RSVP here: https://www.sarahtacy.com/opting-out-of-urgency
Connect with Sarah
Opting Out of Urgency — A free 3-day nervous system workshop to help you move beyond urgency and reconnect with your energy, clarity, and rhythm.
Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahtacyt
Learn more about Sarah's work
Join Sarah's email list
Connect with Jeannine Yoder
Follow Jeannine on Instagram