Hi I’m Sarah.
Where it all Began
My journey into coaching began by growing up in a family with addicts which taught me to study human behavior as a means to protect myself. The motivation was out of survival as I was trying to fix our family dynamic so I could have the love and support I needed. After my older sister passed away from an overdose, I spent many years of my life thinking I could have saved her.So, I dug in and studied and practiced all kinds of coaching from career coaching, leadership coaching, mental health coaching, and stress management/ HRV biofeedback coaching. After wrapping my head around many coaching modalities, I started to have my first inkling that cultivating intuition was what was most important. This was a whole new strategy and approach to healing because intuition has little to do with “knowing” from a head space but rather “knowing” from a heart space.
Death
I was ramping up to open my coaching practice, still with my wounded healer driving the bus of my mind, when the love of my life, Ryan, died in a climbing accident I was involved with. My life came to a screeching halt. I was heartbroken, battling survivors guilt and PTSD, and feeling completely lost. As I attempted to grieve, I was confronted with my tendency to fix and control in order to protect myself from feeling fear and loss. I had a choice, to either keep fixing and controlling which would keep me stuck in my grief – or give up control, surrender to vulnerability, and leverage my tools and resources to heal.
My Healing Journey
It was at that moment that I reached vast and wide. I anchored myself in community, nature, and purpose. I connected with my intuition through parts work, hypnotherapy, brainspotting, and somatic therapy. Since the body is slower to realize safety than the brain is, I tried all forms of exposure therapy to update my body that it is safe with EMDR, Gestalt therapy and many medicine ceremonies. I released the trauma in my body by leveraging embodiment practices, gut healing diets, acupuncture, and massage therapy. Finally, I let go of un-serving mindsets, built new memories, and reconnected with my joy and purpose.
Rebirth
Slowly, I built confidence in my ability to heal by turning towards my darkness, my vulnerability, my pain and suffering and watching myself regulate again and again. I learned where the edges of my nervous system were and how to honor just how sensitive I am as a feeling body. I loosened the grip I had of my old identity and I held on to hope no matter how vulnerable hope felt to my nervous system. Hope that I could play again, dream again, love again and *coach* again. My highest prayer was to trust my body and its ability to heal. And I did, and I continue to do so today as a Coach and a Guide.
My Promise to You
I hold this hope and prayer for you to believe that you are not broken and that it is possible for you to heal and integrate the parts of you that are stuck in past experiences. Through my lived experience and training, I will be able to support you holistically on your healing journey. I will help you see when you are available for an opening experience and when it is time to slow down and integrate so nothing is missed. I will steer you back to center when fear takes hold and tries to tantalize you into old, familiar ways of being so that you can fully step into your next evolution of yourself. And I will support your body and nervous system to re-regulate and feel a sense of safety once again.
My Offering
Some people find their purpose in the light and others in the dark. I found mine in the dark and I have learned to appreciate and own my story as it has provided me with the strengths I hold today. I’m specifically well positioned to support people in moving through big life experiences and want to integrate this experience into a new way of being. I’m the proper guide for you if you…
- Have recently experienced a non-ordinary or psychedelic experience or are planning to and would like additional support to prepare and integrate what’s uncovered.
- Are in some kind of relational transition – friendship, family, lover or otherwise and are ready to use this experience as a window to understand yourself better.
- Have realized that old habits and strategies around healing and stress management are no longer serving you and you’re ready to try something new, something that’s not rooted in fixing but integrating instead.
If this feels like you, I’d be honored to partner with you. Please get in touch when it feels right.
Much love to you,
Sarah
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