You know how stories end? Slowly, then all at once.

The career that fit like armor now feels like a costume.

The relationship script you memorized has no next lines.

Even your spiritual practices taste like yesterday's bread.

You're between stories.

And despite what everyone tells you,
this isn't a problem to fix.

A woman with reddish hair sitting on a large piece of driftwood on a beach with tall grass and the ocean in the background.

Meet Your Guide

I'm Vanessa. I guide people through thresholds—those times when life unmakes us so we can become. Through astrology, story medicine, and old-fashioned witnessing, I help you romance the unknown instead of white-knuckling through it.

Currently tending:

  • Individual threshold guidance for life's crossings

  • Exploring: Forbidden Doors: Romance-as-Medicine Intensive

  • Hosting: For Your Pleasure Book Club

  • Podcasting about courting change with the curiosity of lovers

  • Writing on why romance novels might be archetypal medicine for the times

Current Offerings

Two paths for romance readers ready to
decode their midnight wisdom

Forbidden Doors

Where Your Reading Life Becomes Your Map

Five doors culture taught you to close: body, rage, pleasure, instinct, sovereignty; and the romance novels that are helping you reopen them.

A 6-week experience for women ready to discover what their books, their tropes, and their hunger already know.

Saturdays starting May 16.

For Your Pleasure Book Club

A monthly gathering for romance readers exploring what their stories awaken

Last Sunday of every month, we gather online to explore what's underneath the reading: why certain stories grab us, what our cravings know, and what happens when women sit with their books together.

No assigned reading.

Bring whatever romance is calling to you.

Free to join, rich in discovery.

Some doors only open when
we stop trying to return to who we were.

Where are you in your story?