We are often taught - or it’s quietly implied - that change requires a leap.
A cliff moment.
A point of no return.
It’s the image many of us carry when something in our life begins to shift -
or when we feel a shift needs to occur.
That at some point, we’ll have to launch ourselves into the unknown and hope for the best…
hoping we don’t plummet, hoping we’re held.
This idea lives deep in the nervous system.
It’s why change can feel terrifying even when we want it.
It’s why so many people feel frozen at the edge of something new - not because they lack courage, but because their body believes it’s being asked to jump.
The Image Spirit Showed Me
When I was in Ireland, Spirit showed me an image of standing at what looked like the edge of a cliff.
As I listened, I was shown something unexpected.
The cliff wasn’t real.
It was a façade.
Not because change is easy.
Not because thresholds are gentle or predictable.
But because real thresholds don’t actually ask us to jump.
They ask us to arrive.
Why the Mind Creates the Cliff
The image of the cliff’s edge is how the mind dramatizes the unknown.
It’s how we brace - how the system tries to keep us safe when it doesn’t yet understand what’s happening.
When the next step isn’t clear, the mind fills in the gap with danger.
It creates a story of risk, loss, or collapse so it can maintain control - or keep us still.
This isn’t a failure of intuition.
It’s protection doing its job.
When Life Backs Us Into a Corner
For many of us, the edge appears after a long season of effort.
We’ve tried to think our way through.
Push.
Fix.
Figure it out.
We’ve applied strategies, willpower, and logic - hoping one more attempt will resolve the tension we feel inside.
And eventually, life seems to press us up against something we can’t move past.
Not to force defeat.
But to invite surrender.
What looks like being backed into a corner is often the moment force stops working…
and softening becomes the only way through.
This is not punishment.
It’s intelligence.
It’s the body and the soul saying: this cannot be solved the old way.
What Thresholds Actually Ask
What thresholds ask instead…
is presence.
Not presence as effort.
Not “staying positive” or “trying harder.”
But the kind of presence that allows the body to soften enough to listen.
To stay at the doorway long enough for the body to stop tightening.
Long enough for fear to settle into listening rather than reacting.
And when that happens, something changes.
When the Ground Appears
What once looked like a cliff becomes ground.
Not all at once -
but enough for one true step to appear.
That step doesn’t come from forcing clarity.
It comes from allowing orientation.
Most of the time, we’re not being pushed off anything.
We’re being guided through something.
And the step only reveals itself when we stop bracing…
and start arriving.
If You’re Standing at the Edge
If you’re standing at something that feels like the edge right now -
you might not be late, blocked, or avoiding.
You might be exactly where presence is being asked to replace fear.
Not to rush you forward.
Not to make you leap.
But to let the ground show itself…
one honest step at a time.
With love,
Susan