At the Threshold of Self

A reflective series exploring self-abandonment, relational patterning and the moment awareness arrives — not to fix us, but to bring us back into relationship with ourselves.

At the Threshold of Self

3 September 2025

Moments I Chose Myself

Chapter 5: From small choices at sunrise to life-changing decisions, here’s how I stepped into alignment, self-trust and the life I was meant to live.

At the Threshold of Self

27 August 2025

What It Costs Us to Stay

Chapter 4: We don’t always notice the slow erosion—of self, of spirit, of truth—when we stay somewhere we’ve long outgrown. This piece explores the quiet, painful cost of staying too long.

At the Threshold of Self

20 August 2025

We Seek The Redo

Chapter 3: We don’t cling to what feels good — we cling to what feels familiar. A reflection on unconscious reenactment in love and how the past often repeats until we heal.

At the Threshold of Self

13 August 2025

You Are Not Broken

Chapter 2: A poem for the woman whose heart is closed, whose body no longer reaches for touch. A quiet reminder that numbness is not failure — it’s wisdom. And beneath it all, you are still whole.

At the Threshold of Self

6 August 2025

The Things We Swallow in Love

Chapter 1: A tender reflection for the women who’ve learned to dim their longings to stay safe and what it slowly costs us.

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

At the Threshold of Self

31 July 2025

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Season 1 Intro: A new series on the quiet reckoning with old wounds, patterns of self-abandonment and the mirrors that show us where we still struggle to choose ourselves.

At the Threshold of Self

Moments I Chose Myself

What It Costs Us to Stay

We Seek The Redo

You Are Not Broken

The Things We Swallow in Love

When Love Isn’t the Point, but the Portal

Rhian Budd

A journal for women navigating motherhood, identity and self-discovery.