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The Sacred Threshold Session
The Sacred Threshold Session
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The Sacred Threshold Session
Spiritual & Energetic Support at the Threshold of Life and Death
There are moments in life when someone we love stands at a threshold.
Their body may be deeply compromised. They may be nearing the end of life, moving through serious illness, or existing in that mysterious space where no one truly knows whether they are preparing to leave or whether something within them is still choosing life.
These moments can be extraordinarily sacred.
They can also be frightening, painful, confusing, and emotionally overwhelming for everyone involved.
The Sacred Threshold Session is a prayerful, spiritual and energetic offering for individuals who are at or near this threshold—and for the families who love them.
My role is not to decide whether someone should live or die.
It is not to call someone out of the body.
It is not to keep someone in the body.
And it is never to impose my will upon the soul.
Instead, I enter into a deeply prayerful state and stand, energetically and spiritually, at the threshold.
From that place, I pray.
I listen.
I work with the energetic field.
And I ask that the highest and most loving destiny available to that soul be supported.
Sometimes that may mean creating greater peace around a person’s transition.
Sometimes it may mean helping release fear, resistance, unfinished emotional energy, or energetic constriction surrounding the experience.
Sometimes a person who appears to be nearing death remains.
Sometimes there may be an unexpected shift or stabilization.
And sometimes the body completes its journey.
I do not determine which of those things happens.
The soul does.
My work is simply to create a field of love, prayer, grace, permission, and energetic support in which whatever is meant to unfold may do so as peacefully and naturally as possible.
During a Sacred Threshold Session, I may:
- Enter into prayer and deep spiritual communion on behalf of the individual.
- Work energetically with the field surrounding the person and their transition.
- Hold an intention for peace, comfort, grace, release, and the highest possible outcome.
- Invite the release of fear, resistance, energetic entanglement, or anything that may be creating unnecessary struggle.
- Offer the soul permission to follow its own highest path—whether that means remaining or transitioning.
- When appropriate, convey loving messages or intentions from family members such as: You are loved. You are not alone. We will be okay. You are free to follow what your soul knows is right.
- Hold prayer for the family and the emotional field surrounding the person.
This work can also be especially meaningful when someone is unable to communicate verbally because of dementia, unconsciousness, sedation, neurological illness, or the natural dying process.
There is no requirement that the individual consciously participate in the session.
The work may be offered remotely. Over phone or via zoom.
What I Cannot Promise
There is no promised or predetermined outcome from this work.
I cannot tell a soul when to leave the body, nor can I promise that someone will remain in the body.
I do not attempt to hasten death or prevent death.
The intention is always:
May the highest and most loving destiny of this soul unfold with as much peace, grace, ease, dignity, and Divine support as possible.
Sometimes the deepest healing is not changing what happens.
Sometimes it is changing the way a sacred passage is experienced.
For Families
These sessions can also hold something deeply important for the people who are left standing beside the threshold.
There can be guilt.
Fear.
Anticipatory grief.
Questions about whether your loved one is suffering.
Fear that they are staying because of you.
Fear that telling them it is okay to leave somehow means you are giving up on them.
Part of this work can include supporting you in finding a place of love where you are able to say:
I love you enough to let your soul choose.
You can desperately want someone to stay and still give them permission to leave.
Those two truths can exist together.
Important Note
The Sacred Threshold Session is spiritual and energetic support only. It is non-medical and does not replace hospice, palliative care, emergency care, physicians, mental-health professionals, clergy, or other appropriate end-of-life support.
Whenever someone is seriously ill or actively dying, their medical and hospice teams should remain involved in their care.
I do not work toward death or toward survival. I work toward peace, alignment, grace, and the highest path available to the soul.
