Tender the Threshold

Philosophy

The home is a living thing

Every room holds memory. Every object carries energy. The arrangement of your physical world both reflects and shapes your inner experience — and when life delivers a threshold moment, the relationship between you and your space becomes sacred ground.

Tree trunk doorway with warm-lit stairs ascending beyond the threshold

Change the space, shift the soul

When you rearrange, clear, or consecrate a physical space, something moves inside you. This isn't metaphor — it's the animist reality our ancestors understood. Your home is not separate from you.

Change within, tend without

When transformation happens inside — through grief, growth, or the slow dissolution of who you were — your environment needs to change with you. If it doesn't, it becomes a container for someone who no longer exists.

Death is passage, not ending

Across traditions, death is understood as a threshold crossing. A journey through challenge toward transformation. This reframes everything: how we grieve, how we prepare, how we tend what's left behind.

Grief moves in cycles

Like seasons, like the moon, like breath. Grief returns in waves — this is not failure, it is the nature of love. Each return is an invitation to tend what has surfaced, in your heart and in your home.

Offerings

Ways we can work together

Sacred Space Tending

Home clearing · Energy work · Feng Shui · Aromatherapy

Your home is the container for your life. When that container no longer matches who you're becoming — or when it's holding the weight of what's happened — the space itself needs tending.

I bring over a decade of experience in holistic home care to this work: clearing and reorganizing spaces using Feng Shui principles, energy clearing practices, and intentional aromatherapy. But this isn't interior decorating. It's a conversation between you and your environment — guided by ancestral and animist understanding of how physical space holds, reflects, and transforms the spirit.

For homes where someone is actively dying — preparing the space to hold what's coming. For homes after a death — clearing the energetic residue so the living can breathe. For homes in any transition — aligning the outer world with the inner shift.

Threshold Clearing

Belongings · Estate clearing · Grief-informed guidance

When someone you love has died, their belongings hold their story. Clearing a home is not getting rid of things — it's a liminal act, a threshold crossing. The objects need to be accompanied into their next chapter: finding them homes, giving them purpose, honoring the stories they carry.

I walk alongside you through this process — helping you sort, decide, grieve, and release at your own pace. We use pause boxes for items you're not ready to face, photograph what you can't keep, and find meaning in what you let go. When you're ready for physical removal, I can help coordinate that with care.

This service bridges the emotional and the logistical. I guide the inner work; trained, compassionate crews handle the physical. You get continuity of care rather than being handed off.

Ritual Design

Custom ceremony · Transition marking · Ancestral practice

We have lost the rituals that once held us through life's thresholds. Without ceremony, transitions happen to us rather than through us — unmarked, unwitnessed, incomplete.

I design and guide custom rituals for the passages that matter: death and dying, grief milestones, life transitions, home blessings, seasonal thresholds, and the moments that need to be witnessed. Drawing on twenty-five years of practice with ancestral and animist frameworks — Celtic, Mayan, Indigenous, Taoist — I create ceremonies that are authentic to you, rooted in old ways, and alive with meaning.

Not scripts borrowed from traditions that aren't yours — but living rituals designed for your specific crossing, informed by the deep patterns that run through all human ceremony.

We have always known how to do this. The knowledge lives in the body, in the home, in the land.

Emotional Alchemy & Coaching

Narrative medicine · Grief tending · Transformation work

The stories we tell about our suffering shape how we experience it. Emotional alchemy is the practice of working with what has been given — the grief, the fear, the rage, the confusion — and transmuting it through attention, meaning-making, and the willingness to be changed.

Using narrative medicine and cross-cultural ancestral frameworks, I help you expand the story of your experience so it can hold more than your pain. We work with grief not as a problem to solve but as an initiation — asking who the person is that this experience is asking you to grow into.

For those actively grieving. For those supporting the dying. For those sensing that loss is asking something of them. For those grieving the dying world.

Death & Grief Companioning

Sacred deathcare · End of life · Vigil support · Family guidance

Death doesn't need to be as hard as we've made it. Our worldview is simply too small to hold it. As a certified Sacred Deathcare Guide with a decade of hospice experience, I companion people through the most profound threshold of all.

I offer presence and practical support during the dying process, guidance for families navigating the unfamiliar terrain of loss, vigil support, and help creating meaningful experiences around death — including tending the home environment so the space can hold what's happening within it.

I will not rush you or tell you what you should feel. I will hold space for all of it — the love, the rage, the confusion, the strange beauty that sometimes appears in the midst of loss.

Home Blessing & Re-Inhabiting

Post-transition · New beginning · Energetic reset

After a death. After a clearing. After a divorce, a move, a chapter ending. The space has changed, and so have you. This offering helps you consciously re-enter your home as the person you're becoming.

Through energy clearing, intentional rearrangement guided by Feng Shui principles, and aromatherapy to mark the shift, we consecrate the space for what comes next. This also serves those who've moved into a home where someone died, or anyone sensing that their environment is holding a past that no longer belongs.

About

Maia Gibb

I've spent my life learning how to navigate thresholds — and how to help others do the same.

For twenty-five years, I've worked with ritual and ancestral energy practices as tools for navigating transitions, personal development, healing, and grief. For over a decade, I ran a holistic home care practice grounded in Feng Shui, aromatherapy, and energy clearing — learning firsthand how physical space holds, reflects, and shapes the inner life. For ten years, I served as a hospice volunteer, sitting with the dying and their families.

I am a certified Sacred Deathcare Guide. I am a lifelong student of Indigenous, Celtic, Taoist, and Mayan spiritual philosophy and energetic practices — traditions I continue to learn from, using their wisdom to heal myself and my own ancestral lines, and drawing on cross-cultural frameworks to support others without appropriating what isn't mine to claim.

My approach integrates narrative medicine — the understanding that the stories we tell about our afflictions shape how we experience them. We are meaning-making creatures. When we expand the meaning we can make, we expand what we can bear.

Certified Sacred Deathcare Guide · 10 years hospice volunteering · 10+ years holistic home care practice (Feng Shui, aromatherapy, energy clearing) · 25 years ritual and ancestral energy practice · Trained in narrative medicine · Lifelong student of ancestral and animist traditions · Trained journalist and transformational storyteller

The home is a living thing

Change the space, shift the soul

Change within, tend without

Death is passage, not ending

Grief moves in cycles

Ways we can work together

Sacred Space Tending

Threshold Clearing

Ritual Design

Emotional Alchemy & Coaching

Death & Grief Companioning

Home Blessing & Re-Inhabiting

You may have found your way here for a reason

Maia Gibb

How I work

Ancestral & Animist Wisdom

Narrative Medicine

Embodied Practice

Working together

Initial Conversation

90-Minute Session

Space & Clearing Work

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