Are You In a Portal? A Guide to understanding your threshold moment (and what to do about it)

Are You In A Portal?

A guide to understanding your threshold moment (and what to do about it)

$29 USD

You're here because something is shifting.

Maybe it's obvious. You're turning 40. Getting divorced. You want OUT of the career you've spent 15 years building. You became a mom. Or you didn't.

Or maybe it's subtle. Everything looks fine on the outside, but you're channeling that burn-it-all-down energy. Your fuse is too short. You feel resentful. You're willing yourself on even though you've outgrown this life.

You're no longer where you've been, but you're not yet where you'd like to be.

You're in the Portal, babe.

What is a Portal?

A Portal is the liminal space. A threshold moment. The space between who you were and who you're becoming.

You've taken off the old labels. You haven't yet put the new one on.

And you have three choices:

1. Stay stuck and "safe" in sameness
2. Get dragged through (survival mode, burnout, breakdown)
3. Walk through the Portal consciously

This guide is for women who choose option 3.

This isn't a "do these 3 things and you'll be great" guide.

Portals are REAL. They're filled with tension, friction, painful lessons, change, surrender, letting go, starting over.

I'm not giving you rose-colored glasses.

I'm giving you the basic framework for creating a container for your Portal moments.

The container is a Practice to anchor your everyday. Two totally analog tools. Forty minutes a day. That's it.

Inside this 26-page guide, you'll get:

✨ A 20-question Portal assessment to determine if you're in a Portal (and how deep you are)

✨ The 3 energies every Portal requires: BE / LET GO / BEGIN AGAIN

✨ Portal archetypes: Status Quo Autopilot, Survivalist, or Self-Sovereign Queen (which one are you?)

✨ Two Practice tools: Journaling + Meditation (the exact formula I've used for over a decade)

✨ The 40-minute Practice framework: How to build it, when to do it, what you need (spoiler: barely anything)

✨ Journaling prompts to support your Portal work

✨ A Portal workbook to track your journey

✨ My personal Portal story of quitting Big Law and what I learned

This guide is for you if:

• You feel stuck but can't name what's wrong
• Your fuse is short and you're resenting people you used to love
• You're escaping into work, wine, scrolling, or busyness
• You're questioning everything you thought you wanted
• You're abandoning yourself to take care of everyone else
• You're experiencing a major life change (40th birthday, divorce, career shift, loss, pregnancy)
• You feel like you don't know who you are anymore
• You're tired of performing invincibility while falling apart inside
• You want to walk through your Portal consciously instead of getting dragged

About the Practice:

I'm giving you my exact formula. The Practice I've done nearly every day for over a decade. The framework I've guided thousands of students through since I quit Big Law to teach this work.

Two tools. Forty minutes. Totally analog.

• 20 minutes journaling (pen to paper, no screens)
• 20 minutes meditation (paying attention to the present moment)

The guide includes a 5-week ramp-up plan to get you from 0 to 40 minutes without overwhelm.

What you won't get:

This is not:

• A sexy promise
• A quick fix
• A self-improvement plan
• Another way to optimize
• A habit to make you more efficient

This is about the everyday. The practice of paying attention. And letting that attention fuel your Portal transformation.

Who am I?

I'm Catherine Zack (Cath). I'm a meditation teacher, executive coach, and co-owner of Village Yoga in the Hudson Valley. I've been teaching meditation for over 15 years.

I spent years as a corporate litigator before I finally listened to the Portal calling me. I was dying inside—burnt out, lifeless, stressed beyond belief. I used Practice to finally SEE that I had to quit. And Practice has been my anchor through every Portal since: becoming a mother, opening a business, turning 40, navigating the pandemic.

I host Portal Retreats, work 1:1 with clients in 6-month coaching containers, and created The 40 Portal Podcast—40 women sharing real stories about their Portal moments.

This guide is the distillation of everything I've learned about navigating threshold moments without abandoning yourself.

What you'll walk away with:

✅ Clarity on which Portal you're in and what it's asking of you

✅ A simple, repeatable Practice framework you can use for this Portal and every Portal that comes after

✅ Tools to stop abandoning yourself in the chaos

✅ Permission to BE where you are without rushing or performing your way through

✅ A roadmap for conscious transformation

The biggest answers are found in the smallest moments.

This guide isn't about waiting for a day that will never come.

This is about now. The practice of paying attention. And letting that attention fuel your becoming.

Because attention leads to devotion. And devotion is how you remember who you are. In this Portal and the next and the next.

Ready to walk through your Portal consciously?

$29 USD

What happens after you buy:

You'll receive immediate access to download the 26-page PDF guide.

Print it. Save it. Work through it at your own pace. Come back to it whenever the next Portal opens.

This is yours to keep forever.

Questions?

Is this guide for me if I'm not in a Portal right now? Yes. Even if you're not in a Portal now, you will be again at some point. Building the Practice now means you're skill-building for the next Portal—you're taking "pre-action" instead of reacting in crisis mode.

How long will it take to work through this guide? You can read it in one sitting (about an hour), but the real work is in the Practice. The guide includes a 5-week plan to build your 40-minute daily Practice.

Do I need any special tools or equipment? Barely anything. A notebook, a pen, a quiet place to sit. That's it.

Is this religious or spiritual? The Practice I teach is rooted in meditation and mindfulness, but it's not religious. It's about paying attention to yourself. You don't need to believe anything specific to benefit from this work.

Welcome to the Portal, babe.

I'm so glad you're here.

$29 USD

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