Your Bookshelf Is Your Grimoire

Romancing the Threshold · Apr 8, 2026 · 41m · transcript

Almost twenty years ago, a dream about a wedding made me abandon my thesis on Saturn and depression and write instead about the healing power of romantic comedies. That thesis became a spell — I lived everything I wrote, and more than a year later, I met my husband. Then I forgot about it for nearly two decades. After my mother died and 131 romance novels pulled me through a cave year of grief, the spell returned. Same medicine. Deeper cauldron. In this episode: the origin story of my work with romance as medicine, a three-level framework for reading beneath the surface, and a practice you…