Rise Healer Rise

From Art to Alchemy: Remembering Who You Came Here to Be, with Tara Larsen Chang

What happens when all the different paths you've followed throughout your life begin to come together, and you realise they were never really separate?

In this episode of Rise Healer Rise, I'm joined by Tara Larsen Chang, a graduate of the School of Gaia Flower and Vibrational Essence Practitioner Diploma, whose journey is a beautiful example of what can happen when we follow our curiosity, honour our natural gifts and allow our work to evolve.

After more than 30 years as a professional illustrator, Tara began exploring her lifelong connection with nature in new ways. Her journey took her through herbalism, intuitive plant communication, Human Design and eventually into the wider world of vibrational essences.

Today, she's bringing all these interests together, creating her own unique range of vibrational essences that incorporate Human Design, astrology, crystals, frequencies and the natural rhythms of the Moon and seasons.

What I particularly love about Tara's story is that nothing has been wasted. Even her earliest childhood memories of connecting with plants have become part of the work she's now bringing into the world.

In our conversation, we explore:

• How Tara's childhood relationship with plants has remained a thread throughout her life.

• The turning point that led her to reconsider her professional direction.

• Her discoveries during the School of Gaia Diploma and the extraordinary world of vibrational essences beyond flowers.

• How she's bringing Human Design and essence-making together in her own distinctive way.

• The subtle changes we may notice when working intentionally with essences.

• Why sensitivity and learning to trust our own responses are so important.

• The value of patience, timing and allowing our gifts to develop naturally.

This is a conversation about remembering who we are, trusting the things that have always called to us, and recognising that our individual experiences and interests may be exactly what make our work so valuable.

Perhaps the path you've been looking for is the one you've been walking all along.

Connect with Tara

Tara Larson Chang
TLC Art and Alchemy

Website: https://www.taralarsenchang.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram./com/taralarsenchangFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/taralarsenchang

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Tara is a graduate of our Flower and Vibrational Essence Practitioner Diploma, where we explore the deeper world of essences and support practitioners to develop their own relationship with nature, energy and intuitive practice.

Discover more about the School of Gaia: https://saraestelle.com/

Rise Healer Rise Podcast

Hosted by Sara Estelle, nature-based life and business guide and founder of the School of Gaia.

https://risehealerrise.com/

About This Episode

What does it mean to truly be seen, by nature, by another soul, by yourself?

In this episode of Rise Healer Rise, Sara welcomes business mentor, visionary, and New Earth pioneer Kelly Vikings for a conversation that goes far beyond business. From Kelly's earliest memories on horseback in Cornwall, to the moment an oak tree on a hilltop in Exeter changed everything, to the activation she received standing before Sekhmet in Luxor, this is a conversation about what it means to wake up, rise, and remember who you are.

They explore the profound intelligence of the natural world, the emergence of the new human, the power of inner knowing, and what happens when two healers who were brought together by Oak decide to record a podcast together on a full moon in Aries, just past the Equinox in September 2026

Of course they do.

In This Episode

• How Kelly's connection with nature began before she could walk
• The oak tree in Daneswood, Exeter, that saved Kelly's life, and what it said
• What it means to live as a "transmission" rather than just a person
• Inner knowing, the new human, and moving from unconscious to conscious living
• The Sekhmet activation in Luxor: "I see you, not the you that's human, but the you that is totally divine"
• How Sara and Kelly were brought together by Oak, and what that means
• Flower essences, vibrational medicine, and nature as "beyond the veil technology"
• The visible and invisible kingdoms, trees, flowers, devas, fairies, all here, all rising with us
• Why the New Earth Business Awards was born, what it cost Kelly to bring it through, and why it matters
• The 22nd and 23rd of October, Coventry, and why 2027 is already booked on 11.11

Kelly Mentions

🌿 The New Earth Business Awards, 22nd & 23rd October, Heart of England Conference Centre, Coventry 🎟️ Tickets from £111 (includes food, refreshments, on-site parking)

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About Kelly Vikings

Kelly is a business mentor, New Earth visionary, and the founder of the New Earth Business Awards, the first of their kind in the UK. She works with healers, sensitives, and conscious entrepreneurs who are ready to build businesses from love, sovereignty, and soul. She is also a channel, an artist, and a living example of what happens when you say yes to your purpose, even when everything else is hard.

About Your Host

Sara Estelle Turner is the founder of the Temple of Gaia and a flower and vibrational essence Guide and Teacher with over 25 years of experience. She works with healers and practitioners who are ready to go deeper, into the intelligence of plants, the wisdom of Gaia, and the sovereign truth of who they are.

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A Note from Sara

"Nature lives without judgment. A red flower grows next to an orange flower and doesn't question it. Different colours, different directions, different expressions, all perfect. That's what nature has always said to me: stop judging yourself based on what somebody else looks like."

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If this conversation touched something in you, please share it with a healer, a sensitive soul, or anyone who's ever felt the darkness of life and is looking for proof that there is something extraordinary waiting on the other side of it.

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Most of the depletion that healers experience is not coming from the obvious places. The long client session, the demanding launch, the season of life that asks a great deal. Those are visible. We can account for them and rest afterwards.

The depletion I explore in this episode is the kind that happens quietly, consistently, and often in direct proportion to how sensitive and devoted you are to your work.

Until we can see it clearly, we cannot begin to address it.

In this episode: the three hidden drains that accumulate beneath the surface of a working life, why sensitive practitioners are particularly prone to carrying what is not theirs to hold, how constant self-questioning costs far more energy than most of us realise, and what it means to begin creating a genuine boundary between what is yours and what is not.

Essence spotlight: The Umbel family, Apiaceae. Elder, angelica, fennel, cow parsley. These are plants of the threshold, comfortable at the boundary between one thing and another, and deeply supportive of the nervous system and energetic boundaries.

Yarrow from my own range carries both sunlight and moonlight expressions, addressing the restoration of the boundary between what is genuinely yours to give and what has been given out of habit, conditioning, or the quiet fear of giving less.

If you feel called to explore flower and vibrational essence work more deeply: https://saraestelle.com/school-of-gaia-for-healing/

I am also holding a small six-month container teaching healers to create their own soul-aligned essence ranges. To find out more, get in touch at [email protected]

www.saraestelle.com

Growth without the internal capacity to hold it is almost always uncomfortable. And that discomfort is often misread as a sign that something has gone wrong, that the visibility should be reduced, the price brought back down, the offer withdrawn.

In this episode I explore what actually happens in the body and energy system when more begins to arrive, and why the stretch that comes with expansion is not a signal to retreat but a sign that something real is opening.

This is one of the most overlooked conversations in sacred business, and it is worth naming directly.

In this episode: why capacity rather than strategy is often the real ceiling, what the internal contraction of growth actually feels like from the inside, and how to stay present to the discomfort of expansion without interpreting it as a reason to make yourself smaller again.

Essence spotlight: The Rose family, Rosaceae, with their deep gripping root systems and five-petalled flowers that are both fragrant and uplifting. Patricia Kaminski writes that this family stimulates greater forces of idealism, love and commitment, helping the will to find its right balance and direction for life on earth.

From my own range, Orange Rose, Red Rose and Sovereignty Rose each carry a distinct quality of this expansion from the inside out.

If you feel called to explore flower and vibrational essence work more deeply: https://saraestelle.com/school-of-gaia-for-healing/

I am also holding a small six-month container teaching healers to create their own soul-aligned essence ranges. To find out more, get in touch at [email protected]

Rise Healer Rise – Episode 33

Why Receiving Feels So Difficult

This episode opens a new six-part series on one of the most overlooked capacities in healing work: the ability to receive.

Many of the women doing the most profound work in the world have built an identity almost entirely around giving. Somewhere along the way, the channel that allows things to flow back in has quietly narrowed. This episode explores why that happens, and what it means to begin building capacity in the other direction.

This is not a personal failing. It is an energetic pattern, and like all patterns, it can shift.

In this episode: why receiving feels dangerous for sensitive practitioners, how over-giving becomes structural rather than situational, and why the income ceiling, the unmet recognition, and the persistent depletion so many healers experience are often connected to the same root.

Essence spotlight: The Lily family, and in particular Orange Lily, whose affinity with the Conception Vessel and the Divine Feminine receiving principle makes her a natural ally for this work.

If you feel called to explore flower and vibrational essence work more deeply: https://saraestelle.com/school-of-gaia-for-healing/

I am also holding a small six-month container teaching healers to create their own soul-aligned essence ranges. To find out more, get in touch at [email protected]

Visit my website to find out more about my work

www.saraestelle.com

There comes a point where the question in your heart and mind begin to change.

Not "what else do I need to learn?" but "am I ready to begin creating from what I already know?"

This episode is for those who can feel that threshold, those who sense their work is ready to deepen and who are no longer looking for more, but for something more true.

In this episode I explore what it means to step into authorship of your own medicine, the moment when the path shifts from learning and applying to living and embodying. This is not a sudden leap but a recognition that something is asking to move through you, and that you may already be more ready than you think.

We look at what this decision point actually feels like, who this path tends to call, and what it genuinely asks of the people who follow it. I also share one of the essences I work with, Crimson Rose, and how her medicine speaks directly to the devotion at the heart of this work.

This episode is an invitation to consider whether you are at that threshold and what it might mean to say yes to what is asking to come through you.

I cover

• What the decision point feels like and how to recognise it in yourself
• Who this path tends to call and who it may not be for
• What this work actually offers over time, and what it does not promise
• The difference between adding something to your practice and truly embodying it
• The movement from practitioner to author of your own medicine
• Why devotion, not effort, is what anchors this kind of work

Key Takeaways

• The next step in your work may not be more learning but a willingness to create from what you already carry
• This path asks for presence, honesty and depth over time rather than quick results or rigid methods
• The shift from learning to living your work changes not just what you offer but how others experience it
• Readiness for this path is less about having everything figured out and more about recognising that something is asking to move through you
• Devotion to what matters in your work is what grounds and sustains this kind of creation over time

Essence Ally — Crimson Rose

Crimson Rose holds a deep sense of devotion, a return to why you are here in the first place. She speaks to embodiment rather than output, to living your work rather than simply offering it, and to coming closer to what truly matters rather than doing more.

In the context of this episode, she reflects something central to this path: the work deepens not through accumulation but through a willingness to bring yourself fully into relationship with it. Crimson Rose supports that quality of presence, the kind that allows your medicine to become genuinely your own.

This work is something I am currently opening as a small, six-month space, a place to explore creating your own essences and developing your work in relationship with what wants to come through you. There is also an optional in-person retreat here in France for those who feel called to experience this more deeply in nature.

If something in this episode resonates, you are welcome to get in touch and explore whether it feels like the right next step for where you are now.

Email [email protected] for more information about this brand new programme.

Purchase Crimson Rose here: https://saraestelle.com/moonflower-rituals/

There comes a point in your practice where something begins to shift, not in what you are doing, but in how you are relating to your work.

You may still be using the same tools and working in the same way on the surface, and yet underneath something feels different. More direct, more settled, less effortful.

In this episode, I explore this movement, the moment when your work stops coming only from what you have learned and begins to come through you. This is not a concept but something many practitioners begin to experience as their work matures, and it asks for a different kind of attention.

We look at what this shift actually feels like, why the instinct at this stage is often to look for more training or more confirmation, and what is usually being asked instead. I also share one of the essences I work with, Bearded Iris, and how its medicine speaks directly to this moment in a practitioner's journey.

This episode is an invitation to trust what you already carry, not instead of what you have learned, but alongside it.

I cover

• The shift that happens when your work begins to come through you rather than only from you
• Why practitioners at this stage often reach for more learning when something else is being asked
• What it means to move from applying what you know to trusting what you sense
• The difference between method and presence in your practice
• How this shift does not replace your training but changes how you hold it
• Why this stage asks for self-trust rather than more confirmation

Key Takeaways

• Growth at this stage may not come from learning more but from trusting more deeply what you already carry
• The work begins to move differently when you stop reaching for certainty and allow what is already present to inform you
• This is not about confidence in the mind but a recognition that lives in the body
• The shift from practitioner to someone whose work comes through them is not sudden and builds over time in small moments of following what you sense
• What you have learned does not disappear but becomes something you hold differently

Essence Ally - Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris carries a clear and grounded message: you know how to do this. Not as something the mind decides, but as something the body already recognises. It supports the practitioner who is ready to trust their own direct knowing rather than continuing to look outward for the next step or the next confirmation.

In the context of this episode, it reflects something worth sitting with: the next level of your work may not require more learning but a deeper willingness to trust what is already there.

This work is something I am currently opening as a small, six-month space, a place to explore creating your own essences and developing a more direct relationship with what wants to come through you and your work.

If something in this episode resonates, you are welcome to get in touch and explore whether it feels like the right next step for where you are now.

Email [email protected] for more information about this brand new programme.

Purchase Bearded Iris here: https://saraestelle.com/moonflower-rituals/

There comes a point where your work begins to ask for something different.

Not more techniques or learning or information

But a deeper relationship.

In this episode, I explore what it means to move from working within existing systems (such as using others templates and structures to run your business) to entering into direct relationship with nature and how this shift opens a new way of creating, listening, and working.

We look at what vibrational essences are in a simple, grounded way, and the difference between using what already exists and beginning to create your own.

This isn’t about doing it perfectly.
It’s about learning to listen.

I also share one of the essences I work with — Pink Yarrow — and how Pink Yarrow supports a sense of safety, connection, and the capacity to open more deeply.

This episode is an invitation into a different way of working. One that unfolds over time, through relationship rather than technique.

I cover

• What essences are (in a grounded, accessible way)
• The difference between using essences and creating your own
• Why this work is relational, not technical and has nothing to do with ticking boxes
• Moving from applying methods to listening more directly
• How nature becomes something you work with, not just through
• The role of safety and sensitivity in deeper work




Key Takeaways

• The next level of your work may not be more learning, but a different relationship
• Creating essences is a process of listening, not control
• Nature responds to presence, not force
• Feeling safe is what allows deeper work to unfold
• This path develops over time through experience, not perfection

Essence Ally — Pink Yarrow

Pink Yarrow works gently within the subtle energy field, supporting a sense of safety, connection, and soft opening through the heart.

It is particularly supportive where there has been sensitivity or emotional wounding — not by pushing change, but by restoring a sense of steadiness and coherence.

In the context of this work, it reflects an important truth:

Deeper work doesn’t come from effort. It comes from feeling safe enough to open.

This work is something I’m currently opening as a small, six-month space.

A place to explore creating your own essences, and developing a more direct relationship with what wants to come through you.

If something in this episode resonates, you’re welcome to get in touch and explore whether it feels like the right next step for you.

Email [email protected] for more information about this brand new programme

Purchase Pink Yarrow here https://saraestelle.com/moonflower-singles/

There comes a point in healing work where what once felt expansive begins to feel… contained.

Not because anything is wrong but because something deeper is asking to emerge.

In this episode, I explore the moment many practitioners reach when their work begins to feel repetitive, when familiar patterns continue to appear, and when there is a quiet knowing that more is possible — even if it can’t yet be accessed through what they’ve been taught.

This isn’t a lack of skill. It’s often a sign that your work is ready to deepen.

We explore the shift from applying learned methods to entering a more direct relationship with the source of healing itself — and the early stages of moving from practitioner to creator.

I also share a glimpse into my own work through one of the essences I’ve created, Sovereignty Rose, and how the process of creation invites a deeper level of authorship, responsibility, and trust in your own way of working.

This episode opens a new conversation — one that doesn’t replace what you already do, but expands it.

• The point where healing work can begin to feel repetitive

• Why this doesn’t mean you’re doing something wrong

• The natural depth and limits of what we’ve been taught

• Recognising when your work is asking to evolve

• The shift from applying methods to relating more directly

• Moving from practitioner into authorship of your own work

  Remember

• Repetition in your work can be a sign of readiness, not limitation

• What you’ve learned has brought you here — but something deeper may now be calling

• The next level of work often begins with relationship, not more techniques

• Creation asks for a different level of trust and responsibility

• Sovereignty is the foundation of original, aligned work

Sovereignty Rose holds the frequency of stepping into authorship of your own life and work.

Not as confidence alone, but as a deeper sense of inner authority — where you are no longer only working within existing structures, but beginning to relate directly to what wants to come through you.

It supports the shift from following to creating, while still honouring the role of learning, structure, and guidance along the way.

I am opening a small, six-month container exploring this work more deeply, where I am teaching a small number of Healers to Create their own Soul Aligned Essences - to support their clients and their work

If something in this episode resonates — particularly around stepping into your own way of working as a Source Led Creatrix who has also a very practical energy— you’re welcome to get in touch and explore whether it feels like the right next step for you.

My website is here

https://saraestelle.com/

Please request information by emailing [email protected]

Purchase Sovereignty Rose Essence here

Letting Life and Business Hold You

Flower Companion: Red Chestnut

In this episode of Rise, Healer, Rise, Sara explores the flower Red Chestnut through the lens of leadership, responsibility, and the hidden exhaustion many healers experience when they feel they must hold everything themselves.

Dr. Edward Bach described Red Chestnut as the state of over-concern for the welfare of others—a tendency to worry excessively about those we care for and to feel responsible for their outcomes.

In business, this pattern can show up as emotional over-holding: carrying clients’ experiences, worrying about every result, and feeling personally responsible for everything that happens within the work we offer.

This episode explores what happens when sensitive women move from holding everything alone to allowing their business structures, boundaries, and containers to hold the work with them.

Because leadership is not about carrying more.

It is about creating structures that can hold what you are building.

• Dr. Edward Bach’s description of Red Chestnut and over-concern for others

• How emotional over-responsibility shows up in healing businesses

• The difference between caring for clients and carrying them

• Why holding everything personally leads to exhaustion

• How containers, systems, and structure allow a business to hold you

• The shift from hyper-vigilance to trust in leadership

Dr. Edward Bach described Red Chestnut as the state where someone becomes overly anxious about the welfare of others, imagining difficulties or harm for those they care about.

While this often arises from love and devotion, it can lead to emotional over-involvement and exhaustion.

In its balanced state, Red Chestnut supports calm trust, allowing care and compassion without carrying responsibility for outcomes that do not belong to us.

For healers and space-holders, this restoration is essential.

• Where in my business am I carrying responsibility that is not truly mine?

• Do I feel personally responsible for my clients’ outcomes?

• What structures or containers could support my work more effectively?

• What would it feel like to let my business hold me as well?

1. Caring for others does not require carrying their outcomes.

2. Over-responsibility often leads to exhaustion rather than stronger leadership.

3. Healthy containers allow healing work to unfold without emotional over-holding.

4. Business structures exist to distribute responsibility, not concentrate it.

5. Trusting the container of your work allows you to lead without collapse.