Karen Hering, an ordained minister in St. Paul, Minnesota, serves as a threshold guide to people and communities on the cusp of change. She is the author of Writing to Wake the Soul: Opening the Sacred Conversation Within and Trusting Change: Finding Our Way through Personal and Global Transformation, both winners of the silver Nautilus award and recognized as literary books supporting spiritual growth and social change. Her Substack newsletter/community, “Threshold Times,” provides reflections and online programs for people living through change. She leads in-person retreats that engage writing and embodied practices as healing tools and spiritual practices.