In this podcast episode, Sarah discusses the idea that all of us have things that we want to change about our lives but have a hard time changing, the neuroscience behind how your brain learns, and why understanding this will help you to transform your life. She describes what is happening in your brain when you change your habits, the way your brain resists this change, and ultimately why choosing to stick to your commitment of new life choices becomes easier as time goes on.

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In this timely episode, Sarah talks about what has contributed to such division and polarization in our world today. She helps listeners "zoom out" in order to see the process of how anxiety and fear divides people from the viewpoint of a psychotherapeutic model, Family Systems Theory. She explains how the anxious process that happens within a nuclear family is the same process that happens on a macro scale in larger groups of people, societies, and nations. Sarah discusses how we can unintentionally empower the things we fight against when we try to control others and enter the world in anxious and demanding ways. She also speaks to the power of curiosity in learning to understand, connect and build relationships with people from different perspectives- and how this is good for your own health, and for the health of the world.

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Sarah sits down with long-time friend, college roommate, and therapist colleague Lindsey Werner MA, LPC to talk about the value of failure and how necessary it is for reaching goals and becoming successful in any venture. They discuss the need to reframe failure as a valuable experience that helps us gain information in order to recalibrate,  pivot towards what is more helpful, align with our purpose, and ultimately lead us into flourishing in our lives. They discuss how the fear of failure tempts us to stay small but can be demoted to the back seat so that each of us can move towards expanding into our innate potential.

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Join Sarah as she discusses a topic that is common among many, yet rarely talked about-- fantasizing about ex’s from younger years, or other people besides your partner. She discusses what’s happening in your body and brain when your mind wonders into this fantasy land, and describes why the “first love” experience in your adolescent years have such a huge impact and leave such lasting memories well after the relationship ends. Sarah shares the four most common reasons people fantasize about others and encourages listeners to be kind and curious (with themselves especially) as they neither repress or indulge these fantasies, but dive into the deeper lessons these thoughts are wanting to teach them. She reminds listeners that everything you experience in life, if you allow it to, is meant to serve you.

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Sarah sits down with guest Evie Vieira, a parenting coach, speaker, and founder of Creative Parenting Solutions, who is passionate about teaching parents to recognize how the Traditional Parenting Mindset sets them up to fail in having a collaborative, healthy relationship with their children. In this candid interview, Evie shares real life stories, simple techniques and skills to help parents deepen their own relationship with their children, reduce the power struggles, and teaches parents how to "go behind the scenes" the next time their child acts out. 

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Evie Vieira, Certified Parent Coach

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This week, Sarah sits down with Ryan Donovan, a friend and mental health therapist, to discuss his ideas about one of the hallmarks for a life of thriving- emotional maturity. He courageously shares his story and the way the deep pain in his life has lead him to a path of healing and transformation- and ultimately into his vocation as a counselor. He talks about how deconstructing his faith enabled him to reconstruct it in more life-giving ways, and how for some, this process can be a necessary path for growth and evolving as human beings. We talk about the transformational power of authenticity and vulnerability, and how self-acceptance leads to other-acceptance.

More about Ryan: Ryan is a therapist Intern at Balance Mental Health Counseling, a co-creator of The Still Point Project, a coach and consultant at The Leaders Journey which aim to help organizations and leaders maximize impact.

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Join Sarah as she discusses a feeling that people often have but don't like to talk about- feeling ENVIOUS of others. She explores common reasons for what makes us envious, why this happens, and how we can use envy to propel us into areas that need healing and growth. She discusses the difference between the lack mentality rooted in our animal instincts v. abundance mentality which allows us to love others well and transcend the common mindset of "never good enough". She encourages us to allow what we envy to be an EXPANDER for us to live into our full potential, while also finding a "enoughness" and abundance right where we are at.

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In this episode, Sarah interviews June Williams, who is a relationship coach and Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor about the necessity of Self-Care for a life of thriving. June shares her insight and wisdom that have come from both personal and professional experience about why loving others well is only accomplished by being a well-watered human. She also talks about how if you have difficulty with self care, and fear you're being selfish, you're probably experiencing shame, not guilt. Sarah and June talk about this shame as it relates to being a parent, and June emphasizes the need for each of us to give ourselves permission to nurture and restore our presence.

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Emotional Regulation: Most of us don't know how to do it. Why? No one ever taught us. Dive in with Sarah as she discusses why what is happening INSIDE you is the greatest contributor to what happens OUTSIDE of you. She talks about how fear keeps us from expanding into our full potential, why insecurity is contagious, and how learning to regulate your nervous system is a key element to thriving emotionally, mentally, and relationally. She opens up about some fears coming up for her and how they stem from past experience- and the necessity of being kind to the younger parts of ourselves that continue to come up in our adult lives.

BONUS: At the end, she shares an exercise aimed at helping you experience a deeper felt sense of safety to empower each listener to know that with a little time, space, and practice, everyone has the power to self-regulate.

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On this episode, Sarah explores how the smallest of quirky habits to the biggest of (sometimes unwanted) behaviors are all ways that we are trying to take care of ourselves- whether we realize it or not. She dives into the protective system we develop as children and how these protective patterns continue to manifest in our daily lives- at times in undesirable ways. She talks about how you can get out of the shame spiral by learning more about these parts through exploratory questions, about the importance of befriending even your protective parts by showing appreciation for their intention, as well as "feeling your feelings" in order to heal.

Exploratory questions:

1. How is this part trying to help you?
2. How long has it been helping you in this way?
3. What is it afraid might happen if it doesn’t do what it’s doing?

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