Climb Your Mountain

"You need to feel it in order to heal it."

But do you really Becky?

Or is that just something all the personal development people say?

As a somatic practitioner and hypnotist who teaches people how to regulate emotions (often to the point where you can't feel them at all), I get a lot of questions about this.

Shouldn't we be feeling our emotions instead of knocking them down?

Do we really have to experience negative emotion to heal and be healthy? (Cause ew.)

The short answer is no.  You can don't need to feel negative emotions.

But believe it or not, sometimes you might want to.

In today's podcast, I'll share some of the ways that allowing negative emotion serves us. Deepens us. Helps us grow.

And also some of the times we probably SHOULDN'T marinate (and just tap that shit right out).

Resources Mentioned:

• Previous episode about my driving anxiety with links to pattern interrupts in the show notes
• My free breathwork Meetup Group
• Brooke Castillo on indulgent emotions

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Have you ever healed something, and it stayed healed for months or years — only to pop back up at the worst possible time?

Welcome to my week. 😂

The good news is that "repeats" don't mean you've failed or that you're moving in the wrong direction. Actually, they can be a powerful sign that you're moving in the right direction. And now you're being invited to take this healing deeper.

In today's episode, we'll look at "repeats" on three planes: physical, mental, and spiritual.

And we'll talk a little bit about the idea of being "healed," and how it's a journey not a destination.

Resources Mentioned:

• Lauren of Love podcast episode on healing her body (again and again)
• Episode 37 of this podcast in which my driving anxiety comes back
• Episode 22 of this podcast, in which I talk about healing my tunnel phobia
• Episode 27 of this podcast, about how your brain changes
• My Instagram
• Meetup for free breathwork and morning meditation
• My email: [email protected]

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

So I thought I had totally conquered by my driving anxiety.

But this week, out of nowhere, it came back.

I was just minding my own business, driving down the highway. And hit me like a big wave.

At first, I was like, WTAF. I thought I fixed this shit!

There was also that feeling of: I teach other people how to work through fear, so this is totally unacceptable and shameful.

But then, I had to use ALL MY TOOLS to get out of that fear, and it kind of felt like a bit of a final exam of everything I've learned.

In fact, it felt like a big old fear party in my head.

So in today's episode, I'm going to share some of the realities of working with really strong emotions.

How you have to be tenacious.

And that healing almost never looks like a straight line.

Enjoy, and if you can relate, check out the invite to my upcoming Fear Party workshop in the show notes!

Resources Mentioned:

• Opening scene of Austin Powers with goofy song
• Faster EFT (Instagram)
• Metaphoric two-step (Podcast)
• Peripheral shift + more on my driving anxiety (Podcast)
• Sarah's Instagram
• Control room guided meditation

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Feeling overwhelmed and exhausted with the pace of modern life? Following a low information diet may help.

You're constantly bombarded by information from TV, social media, podcasts, and the web. It's more information than you can possibly integrate. But your brain still tries, which uses up mental energy and makes it hard to focus.

Looking away from all that info can be hard. (FOMO is real!) But it can also give your mental health, focus, and productivity a huge boost.

In today's podcast, I share some of the reasons to consider a low information diet. Plus I'll discuss real life examples of changes that have helped me in different areas (news, TV, voting, podcasts, personal growth, phone time, etc.)

As always, take what lands and leave the rest.

Resources Mentioned:

• Brooke Castillo on constraint
• Marianne Williamson on why spiritual people should care about politics
• Stacey Boehman on cognitive load

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Today's episode is a little more personal. It's all about the work I've been doing on my relationship with my body. 

I'll share some of the ways I've been in wrong relationship with my body in the past, and how developing a chronic illness was a wake-up call to do things differently.

I'll also share how self-hypnosis has helped me in this journey and some of the useful visions and downloads that have come through.

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Talking
Laughing
Emotions
Expression
Loud
Laughing
Swearing
Speaking truth
Putting yourself first
Being sensual or sexual
Being smart/knowing stuff
Asking questions

^ Just a few of the ways we can feel like we're being "too much."

If you've worried that you're too much (or been told it to your face), this week's podcast episode is for you.

We'll talk about where this concept of being "too much" comes from and why it just won't die.

And we'll also talk about some of the gifts of stepping into your own power, taking up space, and being fully expressed.

Resource Mentioned:

• Playing Big (book)
• Schedule a discovery call with Sarah
• Email Sarah
• Sarah's Instagram

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

Do you spend your whole life rushing from task to task, never taking time to fully live?

I feel you, bestie. 

I used to get to the end of each day of grinding only to see the to-do list half completed and feel existential despair.

What helped?

In a word, ceremony!

No, I'm not going to make you lick toads or talk to chakras or channel your star ancestors or even DO A PAST LIFE REGRESSION. (Though you totally could, if any of those turn you on.)

Ceremony is simply about bringing significance and presence to our everyday experience.

It's a reminder to take time to truly live and appreciate what's already around us.

You don't have to believe in chakras, angels, starseeds, plant medicine, aromatherapy, or anything unscientific to have a deep and satisfying ceremonial practice.

You just have to believe that we feel life's magic most in the still moments. When we are fully present.

So in this podcast episode, I'm going to walk you through my daily spiritual practices and ceremonies.

Ceremony is an incredibly personal thing, so use this as a jumping off point to create YOUR ceremony — one that moves your soul and resonates deeply with you!

How you do it is so unimportant. It's all about doing what brings joy, peace, abundance, wonder, healing, and focus to your life.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Sarah's Free Breathwork Meetup
• Sarah's Instagram
• We are going to be doing Morning Prayers live soon, so make sure you're on the email list so you don't miss it!
• Lauren of Love Podcast
• Spiritual Path Rituals Course
• Starseed Oracle (Tarot Deck)

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

WTF is this episode EVEN? 😂

It's so trippy, I had to share it with you.

It's basically a replay of an Instagram Live. I wanted to share a message of hope that came to me while I was really deep in a past life regression during hypnosis class.

And it involves whale and orca elders.

P.S.: If you're still reading and haven't unsubscribed, we are clearly from the same soul family.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Starseed Oracle (my Tarot deck)
• Center for Integrative Hypnosis (my hypnosis cert program)
• My Instagram
• Come explore your past lives with me! Book a free discovery call to learn more about private coaching.

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

I've been in my "cave" a lot the past few years. Between COVID, family caregiving, and chronic illness, it's been easy to avoid connection and community.

And in some ways it's been good. It's been a very creative period. It's helped me to figure some things out.

But.

I am also realizing there's healing that can only happen in community. And I also have work to do in the world that requires contact with other humans.

So May has been the month of venturing out of the cave and throwing myself ungracefully back into the world of human connection.

Going on vacation with friends. Sleeping on the couch of an AirBNB. Sharing a kitchen. (HUGE.)

Hiking with others. Putting my slowness, my weakness, and my weirdness on full display.

I have definitely made mistakes and been a jerk. But I've also learned A TON. Stuff you literally can't learn on those solo spiritual getaways.

So in today's episode, I talk about what this part of my healing journey — that is happening in community — is revealing. And also share some survival tips for those of you who need a little help coming out of the cave.

Resources Mentioned

• Sarah's Instagram
• Sarah's Breathwork Meetup
• Email: [email protected]

Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].

This episode turned into a bit of a rant (in the best possible way).

I'm tired of people believing that they are lazy and lack willpower because they aren't skinny with a six pack at 47. (All while working overtime, raising teenagers, walking the dog, and trying to keep the house from looking like a shit show.)

Here's the truth.

When it comes to our bodies, we are all profoundly spiritually wounded.

We are disconnected from our bodies — and from nature and our essential wildness.

It's what makes issues around weight, fitness, and body image so profoundly painful and difficult.

It's what sabotages us every time we try to make change.

So what's the answer?

I think you'll like it. It's rather juicy.

It's all about saying FUCK YOU to Suzy influencer who's trying to sell you the latest fitness program and diet supplements. (Suzy's got butt implants, by the way.)

It's about giving the finger to jacked gurus trying to sell you on the latest diet with a name. (And a bunch of products to go with it.)

It's all about healing old wounds and getting in right relationship with yourself, your food, and the planet.

It's about reclaiming your essential wildness and leaning into your own pleasure.

And eventually, it's about making change from a place that feels whole, aligned, and free of shame or urgency.

Sound amazing? Let's dive in!

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Coach With Sarah

Sarah offers a 6-month nervous system coaching program for humans who are neurodivergent, sensitive, and highly creative. Learn to rewire your brain for calm, load up your stress toolkit, and address the root causes of overwhelm . To learn more and get started, schedule your free consult or email [email protected].