Is it possible to shift our state of mind and state of being in challenging times from anxiety and worry to delight and joy, from stress to well-being, from despair to appreciation, from exhaustion to wholeheartedness?

What if the very nature of the journey we are on together - which often occurs like something is wrong with us, or with our circumstances, or with life - offers a whole new pathway to thriving, to spirit, to compassion, to meaning? In challenging times, our happiness depends upon our making these shifts. Yet, how do we do that?

In Crossing Thresholds: Island Reflections, Amba Gale, Amazon best seller, transformational coach, and founder of Gale Leadership Development, invites us to join her through her heartful poetry, breathtaking photographs, and what she calls “teaching questions” to embrace and complete the endings in our lives and to create new futures - futures that bring us more fully alive.

Diving into the pristine wilderness of Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior and taking a personal journey in which she re-invented her own relationship with her now-adult daughter, Amba saw a missing bridge to a dock as a metaphor for making that crossing. She let go of her expectations for her daughter’s future and now saw her as a resourceful adult, author, and shaper of her life. Following Amba’s writing as a guide, we find that we, too, can create a vision and build a bridge, which allows for our own vision to be fulfilled, learning all the way.