This episode isn’t your usual holiday meditation filled with cheerful tunes and sparkly sentiments.
Instead, it’s for those who feel the weight of the season pressing down on them.
If you’re mourning someone you’ve loved, someone who’s slipping away, or even a version of yourself that feels lost, this meditation is for you.

It’s also for anyone carrying the collective heaviness of the world right now.
Together, we’ll explore breathwork, grounding techniques, and a deep visualization that invites you to face your grief head-on.

This isn’t about fixing or glossing over it: it’s about acknowledging it, giving it a space in your heart, and simply being with those heavy emotions that linger, despite all the pressure to be jolly.

I share Rumi’s poem “The Guest House,” which is central to this practice. 
It’s a reminder that grief is a visitor, not a punishment or a mark of failure. 

Together, we’ll explore breathwork, grounding techniques, and a deep visualization that encourages you to face your grief openly. This isn’t about fixing things or pretending they’re better than they are. It’s about acknowledging your feelings, making space for them in your heart, and simply being present with those heavy emotions that linger, even when there’s pressure to feel cheerful.

If the holidays feel especially overwhelming, hollow, or sharp for you, I invite you to take a moment with me.
Let’s breathe together, sit with what hurts, and remember that you don’t have to shine brightly to get through this season.
If you can find just 15 minutes, you have enough time to uncover a little softness amidst the heaviness.

This isn’t your grandma’s meditation — it’s Dr. Seuss meets nervous-system healing.
If you’ve ever tried to host, decorate, shop, and “stay present” all at once, this episode is your invitation to drop the glitter and breathe.

Inspired by The Grinch and my lifelong love of Dr. Seuss, this 9-minute guided meditation is equal parts poetic and practical — a story-time exhale for anyone drowning in seasonal perfectionism, fake smiles, or family drama.

We’ll breathe. We’ll rhyme. We’ll laugh a little at how ridiculous it all is.
And somewhere in there, your shoulders will drop two inches, your nervous system will chill out, and you might even remember what peace feels like.

Perfect for:
 • hiding in your car before another family dinner
 • crying about the mashed potatoes
 • or needing one damn moment that’s actually about you

Put in your earbuds, close your eyes, and let’s get weirdly calm together.

If you’ve ever hosted a holiday that looked picture-perfect and secretly wanted to crawl under the table mid-dinner—this one’s for you.

In this Dr. Seuss-inspired episode, Sarai gets real about the overachiever spiral that turns “festive” into “fight-or-flight.” From curated chaos to the silent panic of being everyone’s emotional support human, she calls out the bullshit of holiday perfectionism and gives your body something it actually needs: rest & reset.

You’ll learn grounding, gentle nervous-system resets that help you unclench from performance mode and drop back into presence—like bilateral tapping to calm your brain’s alarm system, progressive muscle relaxation to release tension, slow sways that tell your body it’s safe again, and a few small but powerful ways to move energy without losing your mind.

This isn’t hustle culture’s version of self-care. It’s the antidote.
So take off the matching pajamas, leave the dishes, and join your own nervous system for once.

Perfection’s overrated. 

If the holidays make you want to chug eggnog straight from the carton, this one’s for you.
This Dr. Seuss–inspired episode is equal parts poetry, nervous system science, and dark comedy for anyone drowning in tinsel and expectations.

Sarai shares her infamous “I threw up on Thanksgiving dinner” story (yes, really) to unpack how perfectionism, family pressure, and performative holiday joy mess with your nervous system. Between rhymes and raw truth, she calls out the glitter-coated bullshit of “holiday cheer” culture—because no amount of matching pajamas can regulate your cortisol.

You’ll get anti-perfection affirmations like:
 It’s honest, hysterical, and healing as hell.
By the end, you’ll want to trade your sparkle for sanity and declare yourself deep in your Resting Grinch Phase—and finally mean it.

This one’s different. It’s longer. It’s raw. It’s 26 minutes of dark humor, grief, and real talk about surviving the holidays when everything feels too damn heavy.

We’re talking anticipatory grief (the kind that hits before loss), family chaos, and that weird cultural pressure to “be merry” when you’re just trying not to throw a ham at someone. I share about losing my best friend, watching my dad slip away, and the invisible grief that nobody brings a casserole for.

This episode blends comedy, science, and heartbreak. It’s messy and real—because so are the holidays. You’ll laugh, maybe cry, probably snort, and definitely feel seen.

It’s not a healing guide. It’s a nervous system survival plan for the emotionally fried and spiritually feral.
Sorry not sorry—it’s the most human episode I’ve ever recorded.

This meditation is for the days when your body feels miles away and your brain’s buffering wheel just keeps spinning. When you’re not “fine,” but you can’t fall apart either.

In The Slow Return, Sarai guides you through a nervous-system-safe experience for thawing freeze mode — the moment when your body hits pause because the world’s been too fucking much.
It’s slow. Gentle. Real.
You’ll move through breath, micro-movements, sensory grounding, and a mirror moment that helps you finally meet the part of you that’s been waiting to feel seen.

There’s no pushing, no performance, no pressure to “rise.”
 This is about remembering the version of you that stayed — even when everything else shut down.

Listen when:

• You feel numb, heavy, or far from yourself.
• You’ve been in survival mode so long that peace feels foreign.
• You’re ready to stop fighting your body and start listening to it again.

You’ll leave with:
A body that feels a little less frozen.
A breath that feels like it actually belongs to you.
And a reminder that healing isn’t a race — it’s a slow return.

If you’ve been feeling like a human iPhone stuck on 1%, welcome to the freeze response — the least sexy survival state in the nervous-system lineup.

This episode breaks down what’s actually happening when your body taps out:
We go full nerd on the dorsal vagal system, the HPA axis, and the neurochemistry that makes you feel like a ghost in your own skin.

Then we move — slowly, gently — through six science-backed somatic resets to help you thaw without forcing anything:
eye-tracking, micro-movements, temperature contrast, humming, and soft pressure techniques that whisper safety back into your body.

No toxic positivity. No “just get up and move.”
Just real neuroscience, explained in human language, with zero shame and a few well-placed F-bombs.

By the end, you’ll understand why freeze happens, how to tell when you’re in it, and what to actually do when your nervous system goes full opossum mode.
You’ll walk away with tools to reconnect to your body — one millimeter, one hum, one breath at a time.

Listen if:

• You’ve been “numb but exhausted” for months.
• You keep calling it burnout, but it feels more like vanishing.
• You want to know what’s going on in your brain when everything just... stops.

If you’ve been staring at your wall, forgetting what day it is, or moving slower than a dial-up modem in hell—welcome to freeze mode.

This episode isn’t about “snapping out of it.” It’s about calling out your nervous system’s bullshit with love, laughter, and a few strategic F-bombs. We’ll breathe (the lazy way), swear (the effective way), and roast the entire concept of hustle culture until your body remembers how to exist again.

Expect chaotic affirmations, zero toxic positivity, and one sacred mantra: “Fuck it. I’m breathing.”

Listen if:

• You’ve been scrolling so long you forgot what you were looking for.
• Every task feels like climbing Everest in emotional Crocs.
• You’re convinced everyone else is thriving while you’re buffering.

Featuring:

• 4-6 breathwork for the chronically frozen
• Micro-movement wins for when your limbs refuse to participate
• Sarai-approved sarcasm and nervous-system truth bombs

This isn’t a calm, whispery meditation for people who have their shit together.

This is for the overthinkers, the anxious gremlins, and the “I might spontaneously combust if one more person emails me ‘per my last message’” crowd.

In this episode, we’re not transcending—we’re surviving. You’ll breathe & face your anxiety Gremlin.  No sage. No sit-still-and-smile. Just a feral, hilarious, full-body permission slip to stop pretending you’re fine.

You’ll meet your anxiety gremlin (mine’s named Brenda), tell them to sit the hell down, and breathe until your body remembers that being alive doesn’t have to feel like an Olympic sport.

By the end, you won’t just be “calm.” You’ll be clear. You’ll be human. You’ll be breathing — and that’s enough.

Listen if:

• Your brain won’t shut the fuck up.

• You’re tired of “just meditate” advice from people who’ve never had a panic attack.

• You want to laugh your way out of a spiral instead of dissociating through it.

If anxiety had a sporting event, you’d be a decorated athlete.

Heart pounding? Gold medal.

Jaw clenched? Silver.

Overthinking a text from 3 days ago? Hell yeah, podium finish.

This episode isn’t about calming down — it’s about getting that chaotic energy out of your body before you spontaneously combust. We’re ditching the mindfulness apps and doing six full-body nervous system resets that actually work.

You’ll shake like a confused gazelle, growl like a rabid Wookiee, and sigh so hard your neighbors might call for a wellness check. Every weird-ass movement has a scientific reason (and zero shame attached).

By the end, you’ll feel human again — not perfect, not zen, but grounded enough to remember that regulation doesn’t mean calm; it means coming home to your body, one ridiculous breath at a time.