Head, Heart & Whole

The challenge if you’re a growth minded person is your constant change, uplevelling, and growing… means the people, places and jobs that used to resonate for you no longer do. 

It can be hard to know when to walk away or when to stay and work through it as part of your growth.

If you’ve ever found yourself wondering whether to stay or walk away from a job, a person or a city… this episode is for you.

Sarah shares very deeply about a very recent period of her life that’s been the toughest to navigate in years, that has led to the decision to end Head, Heart and Whole. 

She opens up about what’s brought her to where she is now, what she’d do differently, and the exact process you can use in your own life to determine: do i stay, is there a change I can make that will radically improve this, or is it time to walk away?

Thank you for being here. & thank you for joining us in the final episode of Head, Heart & Whole.

Futher Support

• Book a free connection call with Sarah here to see if working together is a good fit 
• Apply directly for mentorship inside The Elevated Woman here.

Ever feel like there’s just no time to get what you want in your day? 

Or maybe you have kids, shiftwork or your circumstances are so different to other people “doing the work” that their peace, fulfilment and aliveness just couldn’t apply to your circumstances?

In today’s episode, im joined by my TEW client Allysia Hennis-Pugh who works as a leader in residential education. During term time, she lives on-site at an elite school and is available 24/7 - 7 days a week, on call at all hours. For 10-12 weeks at a time.

Despite this, Allysia has absolutely turned her lived reality around - she has become unruffled even with parents screaming down the phone and in emergencies, found peace and separation between work and life, thrown money beliefs out the window… and her relationship with her husband has deepened.

We pull back the curtain on how to create change when your external circumstances truly can’t change. 

We discuss:

• How Allysia created space and separation between work and life when she lives on site at her job and is on call 24/7
• How to create change when you dont work a 9-5 (and literally cannot switch off)
• The exact beliefs we rewired in hypnotherapy that changed the course of her career (despite being deeeeply skeptical of hypnotherapy)
• How to trust when things start getting better that they wont fall apart
• How Allysia has become unruffled even through student emergencies, parent crises and hard days

… and so much more.

Details on The Elevated Woman 

• Book a free connection call with Sarah here to see if The Elevated Woman is a good fit for you or
• If you know you’re ready, apply directly for TEW here.

Connect with Allysia here on LinkedIn or Instagram. 

Most women identifier as overthinkers and this leads to indecision, insomnia and exhaustion. I experienced this intensely as a corporate lawyer - i’d put off work tasks, stay up staring at the ceiling at 3am unable to sleep, and know i needed to change something but unable to do so.

In today’s episode i share the most overlooked way to overcome your overthinking. It’s a breath of fresh air and one that you won’t have thought of. Buckle in!

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Join me inside The Elevated Woman - a 1:1 mentorship for changing your life to being “okay” or “good enough”, to one you absolutely thrive in and are excited to wake up to each and every day.

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If you've ever found yourself going full force at the gym for three weeks and then not setting foot in the place for a month… or eating perfectly all week and then writing it off Friday afternoon for Margaritas, Mexican & a tub of Ben & Jerry’s… this episode is for you. 

In this episode I break down why there is no such thing as being an All-Or-Nothing Person. I share how this pattern had me gain 20kgs as a corporate lawyer… despite my first business being as a very successful fitness coach.

I had the knowledge.

I had the experience.

I had successful client results - and i still struggled to lose that weight.

Because knowledge is not the answer.  Nor is lack of willpower. 

So if you’ve ever struggled forming a habit consistently… or you’ve self-described as an “all or nothing person”  prepare to feel seeeeeen! 

This episode  is one of the four real reasons you struggle to create lasting health habits and we unpack the first one here – The-All-Or-Nothing patter. The other three are inside Before Health Can Hold which is 50% off until this Sunday  21 June using the code SAVE50 at checkout.

In it you’ll learn:

• The 4 Real Reasons Your Health Habits Don’t Last
• The Root of The Pattern 
• How These are Playing Out in Your Life 
• Why These Don’t Work 
• Tools to Start Shifting These 

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This is a raw episode recorded in the thick of a hard time - moving house in Bali, things breaking left and right, a to-do list longer than I can handle and feeling like I’m running on no capacity.

I didn’t want to wait until I was through it to record this episode for you and instead I’m sharing in live time how I cope, what tools I draw on, and how I navigate periods that feel like there’s so much to do and I don't have the time or capacity to handle it.

Because the inner work and nervous system work is easy when life feels good, you’re regulated and things are flowing… it’s what happens when life inevitably lifes that determines your experience of life.

In this episode I share:

• What I actually do (in real time) when overwhelm starts stacking up
• Why money scarcity in these moments creates more stress
• Slowing the pace even when everything in you wants to push through
• My list system that creates ease in the stress
• Why I refuse to accept the bare minimum in my own life even when I’m in the thick of it
• Why there’s no such thing as a wrong decision when you’re already at capacity
• The tools im using to move through this time and get back to baseline

Say Hi on Instagram - I love hearing from you @sarahscullyleaf

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Join me inside The Elevated Woman - a 1:1 mentorship for changing your life to being “okay” or “good enough”, to one you absolutely thrive in and are excited to wake up to each and every day.

Coming to you in the real, messy chaos of moving house in Bali - where everyone operates on island time and even finding moving boxes is somehow a challenge.

This episode is inspired by what I’m living right now. It’s a practical conversation about what to do when you have the knowledge and tools but when life gets particularly full, stressful, or demanding, it's like that knowledge disappears. You find herself overwhelmed, reactive, exhausted, short-tempered, struggling to switch off, or feeling like you’re barely keeping up with everything on your plate.

This episode is an extremely practical how-to guide for creating groundedness in the midst of chaos, including the exact practices I'm using right now as I navigate the stress and unpredictability of moving house in Bali.

We'll explore what happens when life feels like it's coming at you from every direction, why it's often harder to access the tools you know work when you need them most, and the simple, effective practices that can help you feel more calm, clear, and grounded even when the chaos around you hasn't changed.

Links Mentions

• Health That Holds - how to build health habits for a lifetime - code PODCAST100 will give you $100 off.
• My 1:1 mentorship The Elevated Woman is designed to help you create a life you’re absolutely OBSESSED with waking up to. We do the internal work so the external reality matches what you want!

Ever feel like you’ve done the vision boards, the visualisations and getting in touch with your ‘dream life’... but what you want still isnt here yet.

Today we’re joined by Gabrielle Martorana, serial entrepreneur (and one of my closest friends), who runs 4 businesses while working 4 hours a week, and travels the world with her fiance (and soon to be baby!). We cover:

• What manifestation is and what it’s not – including why your vision boards arent working
• The fundamental misconception about manifesting that will change everything for you
• How to know if its somethings falling away for you to receive your desires or if you’re just in a lower frequency
• How this plays out in your business and your love life
• The role of your subconscious and nervous system in creating the life you want (this is not a step you can skip!!)
• The difference between faith, receivership and passively waiting for something to arrive
• Why your subconscious beliefs will always prevail no matter what you want

Connect with Gabrielle

• Listen to the Expand with Gabrielle Podcast
• Break Your Income Class Ceiling (Free Workshop)
• Connect on Instagram 
• Cacao Wisdom (Sarah’s recommendation: Guatemala cacao - great for creativity and energy)

To work with Sarah: 

• For deep 1:1 transformation - The Elevated Woman
• For one-off sessions - email [email protected]
• To create health habits - Health That Holds
• First access to Sarah’s group breathwork events (limited spots) here

To connect with Sarah on instagram click here.

Smart, capable, hard working women tend to overreach and over-rely on their logic, analysis and reasoning to make decisions. Pros and cons lists, knowing exactly what’s next, and finding it much harder to trust their much more subtle intuition.

So in this episode I share - using my own current huge life change of leaving Canggu - of how to tap into your intuition and trust it. 

As someone who used to wait until the pain in my job, relationship or circumstance got SO great before i took action, making a huge life decision when im very happy where I am, is a huge leap of faith (and intuition). This is how i got there.

I share:

• Signs you’re disconnected from your intuition 
• When to rely on logic vs intuition 
• How to start tuning into and trusting your intuition 
• Why faith needs proof
• Why im leaving Canggu after four happy years here (& how i got to this decision!)
• Simple practices to start building your intuition

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My 1:1 mentorship The Elevated Woman is designed to help you create a life you’re absolutely OBSESSED with waking up to. We do the internal work so the external reality matches what you want! 

Check the details here or book a free connection call to see if its a mutual aligned fit

In this episode, we unpack the uncomfortable space between who you were and who you’re not yet. I break down the signs you’re on the edge of your next level before your external reality has caught up. 

I share what’s really going on in this in-between phase - why relationships fall away, why your preferences change, and why you start craving something different without fully knowing what it is yet. We get into the discomfort that comes with this space, how doubt creeps in, and why so many people either stall or try to go back to what’s familiar instead of moving forward.

We cover:

• Signs you’re “on the edge” of your next level (and why they’re often misinterpreted)
•  The identity shifts required to actually step into what’s next
• How subconscious reprogramming and your nervous system play a role in making this happen (or staying where you are).
• What im moving through right now exactly in relation to this
• Why things start to fall away without anything going “wrong”
• What to do with the discomfort and emotional turbulence in this stage
•  How to move through this without outsourcing your decisions or collapsing into doubt

Say Hi on instagram - I love hearing from you @sarahscullyleaf

My 1:1 mentorship The Elevated Woman is designed to help you create a life you’re absolutely OBSESSED with waking up to. We do the internal work so the external reality matches what you want! 

Check the details here or book a free connection call to see if its a mutual aligned fit

In this episode I pull back the curtain and share my raw, real and messy journey with alcohol - my days as a party animal in corporate law, joining the party scene in Bali, and my tipping point knowing something had to change.

I share the greatest (and surprising) benefits of now being 3 years with no alcohol, and whether I think ill ever drink again.

I share

• My journey from party girl to completely sober
• Why I quit drinking - including the shame pit I went into after my last night drunk
• Why i went from no “no alcohol” to “sober”
• The surprising benefits of not drinking
• What it’s been like dating sober
• The most life-changing question you can ask yourself if you drink alcohol 

Say Hi on instagram - I love hearing from you @sarahscullyleaf

GO DEEPER

Join me inside The Elevated Woman - a 1:1 mentorship for changing your life to being “okay” or “good enough”, to one you absolutely thrive in and are excited to wake up to each and every day.

Friendship is just one of the pillars we look at!