At Summer’s End
A short reflection on the feelings I've been circling since May and thoughts for anyone in the in-between.
The Threshold
The Threshold is a podcast for women navigating midlife, healing, and the in-between. Hosted by Angie Schaffer — threshold guide and a woman walking her own midlife crossing — these conversations and reflections are for the woman who feels something shifting. Something ending. Something not yet arrived. You haven’t found this by accident. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Staying Alone with Myself
This week I had four days completely alone… no plans, no one to perform for, nothing to manage but myself. What I found in that silence wasn’t loneliness. It was her. The little girl underneath everything, the one I’ve spent most of my life managing around instead of actually sitting with. In today’s episode, I talk about what it means to stay with yourself when no one is watching. Not fixing, not…
The Ache is the Map
I used to think I needed a map before I could move. Turns out, the ache itself was the map all along. This week I’m sharing something that surfaced in real time during a moment where I felt disagreement in my body before I could name why, and followed it instead of the easier agreement. That small moment traces back to something much bigger: the mid-thirties version of me who felt like a thousand…
Nashville, Italy and the Marriage Portal
Nashville almost cost us. Not in the way you’d think. This episode is about the marriage portal, the moment two people who love each other are asked to change together, not just separately. It’s about the old shame of wanting transformation and claiming it was worth the cost, and how that same shame showed up again in Italy, this time aimed at us instead of just me. It’s about watching my…
The Parent I Swore I’d Never Become
The tone. The words. The moment of recognition. A honest look at inherited patterns and the slow work of choosing something different.
The Contrast I’m Living In
Nashville. Italy. The senses coming online. What it feels like to stand inside a question with no answer yet and why that’s not a failure, it’s a threshold.
The Woman Who Stopped Numbing
I used to think the wine was unzipping me. Loose, fun, likable and I thought that was the real Angie finally showing up. It wasn’t. It was hiding in plain sight. In this episode I’m sharing the three experiments that changed everything: the sixty days sober, the year of no shopping, the thirty days off social media. And what I found waiting on the other side of each one. If you have a chosen vice…
The Woman Who Came Back
I came back from Italy different. Not just emotionally… something that had gone quiet became loud again. In this episode, I shares what I found my way back to, the story of Nash, and what it means to stop leaving the most important parts of yourself out.
The Permission Slip
In this episode, recorded just days before stepping onto a plane to Italy, Angie talks about the permission slip we’ve all been waiting for. The one that would finally make it okay to want the expansive life, to go toward the dream, and stop deferring the long vision.
The Threshold of Going
Standing at the edge of something you’ve always been pointed toward is its own kind of passage. There is guilt. There is leaving. There is the strange vertigo of the long vision finally arriving. In this episode, recorded just before Angie left for Italy, she explores what it means to choose to go anyway — and what it says about the woman you are becoming. When you hear this, she will already be…