finding your ground
when the ground has shifted
the golden thread
A 7-Day threshold journey
A GUIDED JOURNEy FOR women in life transition
Maybe your marriage ended.
Maybe your career changed.
Maybe a business you poured yourself into fell apart.
Maybe the kids grew up.
Maybe you left something, lost something, or simply woke up one day and realized:
The life I built doesn't feel like me anymore.
You're functioning. You're making decisions. You're moving forward.
But somewhere underneath it all is the question: Who am I now?
And what part of me is still there?
I recently held a retreat for women in this exact space - women navigating major life transitions.
Over three days, I watched what happened when women stopped trying to immediately figure out what was next - and created space to listen to themselves instead.
We explored identity, intuition, reflection, tarot, nature, ritual, movement, and the stories we carry about who we're supposed to be.
What emerged wasn't a five-year plan.
It was something more useful: A clearer sense of what remained hers.
And from there, the next step became easier to see.
I've taken what I created for that retreat and turned it into a 7-day journey you can move through in your own time.
THE GOLDEN THREAD
A 7-Day Threshold Journey
A guided experience for the space between who you were and who you're becoming.
The Golden Thread is a 7-day guided journey for women navigating a major life transition - a relationship ending, career change, business loss, an empty nest, or a growing sense that the life you've built no longer feels like you.
Instead of trying to immediately figure out what's next, you'll look at the patterns, qualities, desires, and gifts that have followed you through different chapters of your life.
The goal isn't to become someone new. It's to recognize what has remained yours, and use that as a starting point for what comes next.
Three Movements. Seven Days.
RELEASE
Acknowledge what is ending, what you're ready to leave behind, what you've been carrying that no longer belongs in the next chapter.
RECEIVE
Slow down enough to listen - to your intuition, your desires, your patterns, and what may be trying to emerge.
RETURN
Carry the thread forward - into your choices, your days, and grounded next steps.
Along the way, you'll be invited into reflection, intuitive practices, tarot, ritual, journaling, and a deeper look at the patterns that have followed you through your life.
No experience with tarot or spirituality is required.
You simply need curiosity and a willingness to slow down long enough to listen to yourself.
And somewhere inside the journey, you'll meet your Golden Thread.
The part of you that has been there through every version of your life.
The qualities you keep returning to.
The things that make you feel most alive.
The way you naturally create, lead, care, question, connect, or see the world.
Your life may have changed.
But not everything about you has.
The journey is about discovering the thread that runs through the different chapters of your life - the qualities, desires, gifts, patterns, and ways of being that keep showing up, even as your circumstances change.
I'm inviting the first women into The Golden Thread 7-Day Threshold Journey.
This is the founding version of the experience, which means you'll get the complete 7-day journey for $37 while I gather feedback from the first women who step through it.
You'll move through it privately, in your own time.
And afterward, I'll invite you to share your honest experience with me so I can continue shaping the journey for the women who come next.
If you're standing somewhere between what was and what's next, this is for you.
— Kristen
Founder, LifeThreading
THE GOLDEN THREAD
A guided 7-Day threshold journey
For women standing on the threshold
between what was and what's next.
$37
Enroll today to begin your journey on October 12th!
Because underneath the relationship, the career, the role, the identity, the version of yourself you thought you were supposed to be... there is still a thread.
A thread that has been running through your life all along.
And it's time to carry your thread forward.
The Golden Thread is a 7-day guided self-discovery journey for women navigating a major life transition. It helps you reflect on what has changed, reconnect with the parts of yourself that remain yours, and identify the patterns, qualities, desires, and gifts that have followed you through different chapters of your life.
The Golden Thread is for women who feel caught between an old version of their life and an unclear next chapter. This might follow a divorce, career change, business loss, empty nest, relocation, relationship ending, or another significant life transition. It is especially suited to women who are curious about reflection, intuition, ritual, and deeper self-discovery.
The Golden Thread moves through three stages: Release, Receive, and Return. You are guided through reflection, journaling, intuitive practices, tarot, ritual, and life-story exploration to help you understand what you're ready to release, what is emerging, and what you want to carry into your next chapter.
Your Golden Thread is the recurring thread of qualities, desires, gifts, values, and patterns that connect the different chapters of your life. It represents what has remained yours even as your relationships, roles, careers, circumstances, and identity have changed.
No. The Golden Thread is a personal growth and self-discovery experience, not therapy or mental-health treatment. It is designed to provide guided reflection and intuitive exploration during periods of personal transition.
No. You don't need any previous experience with spiritual or contemplative practices. The practices in this journey are simply offered as tools for reflection, curiosity, and self-discovery. You are always invited to choose what resonates with you and leave anything that doesn't. If something doesn't feel right for you, you can simply skip it, or reach out to Kristen for an alternative.
Created by Kristen Forno, founder of LifeThreading and author of The Daily Ground.
Kristen's work is centered on helping women find their footing through life's transitions.
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