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.

In this episode of Rise, Healer, Rise, Sara Estelle explores the flower essence Mimulus through the lens of business visibility, leadership, and the real fears that surface when sensitive women begin expanding their work.

Drawing on Dr. Edward Bach’s original understanding of Mimulus as the flower for known fears, this conversation reflects on what happens when ambition meets vulnerability: fear of criticism, fear of visibility, fear of financial instability, and fear of getting it wrong.

Using insights from a recent Gaian Business Academy meeting, Sara looks at how these fears show up in practical business situations—from posting online and promoting offerings to naming revenue goals and learning new systems.

Rather than pushing through fear, Mimulus invites us to name it, understand it, and move forward with quiet courage.

• Dr. Edward Bach’s description of Mimulus and its connection to specific, identifiable fears

• Why fear often appears right before expansion or visibility

• How revenue goals can surface deeper emotional resistance

• The difference between technical avoidance and fear of exposure

• Why sensitive nervous systems need courage without hardening

• How naming fears clearly reduces their power

Dr. Edward Bach described Mimulus as the flower for those who experience fear of known things—fear of illness, poverty, criticism, embarrassment, or misfortune.

In the modern business world, these fears often appear when women begin stepping into visibility, leadership, and financial expansion.

Mimulus does not remove sensitivity.
Instead, it restores quiet courage, allowing action even when fear is present.

• What is the exact fear underneath my hesitation right now?

• Is my resistance coming from lack of clarity or fear of exposure?

• What would happen if I named this fear honestly instead of avoiding it?

In this episode of Rise, Healer, Rise, Sara Estelle explores the deeper distortion many healers carry - confusing integrity with invisibility.

Drawing on Dr. Edward Bach’s original insights into Centaury, this reflection looks at over-giving, difficulty saying no, and the quiet self-suppression that often masquerades as humility.

If you’ve ever felt torn between staying true and being visible, this episode offers clarity and grounded reorientation.

• Dr. Bach’s description of Centaury and the over-giving pattern

• Why “being good” often becomes self-erasure

• The link between visibility hesitation and boundary collapse

• Revenue targets and the discomfort of being resourced

• Why ambition does not corrupt devotion

• The difference between humility and suppression

• How structure restores integrity

  
  

  Five Key Takeaways

1. Integrity is coherence — not disappearance.

2. Over-giving is often a boundary distortion, not virtue.

3. Revenue clarity surfaces old patterns of self-suppression.

4. Visibility requires edges.

5. Devotion becomes sustainable when supported by structure.

Centaury — described by Dr. Bach as a remedy for kind, capable individuals who struggle to say no and often over-extend themselves in service of others.

If this episode resonates and you’re a healer navigating visibility and business without wanting to betray your integrity, you can explore more about the Gaian Business Academy here

⁠https://saraestelle.com/gaian-business-academy/⁠

And you if you would like to discover your own elemental frequency, take part in my free quiz here

https://bit.ly/gaianbusinessarchetype

Rise, Healer, Rise is a space for nature-led, soul-rooted women walking their path with integrity and depth.

Visibility isn’t meant to cost you your nervous system — and yet, for many healers, it does.

In this short solo episode, Sara reflects on why being seen so often leads to exhaustion, retreat, or quiet self-betrayal for sensitive, intuitive women. Rather than offering fixes or strategies, this episode names what is happening beneath the surface and reframes burnout as a structural issue rather than a personal failure.

This episode offers recognition, relief, and a different way of understanding the true cost of visibility.

this episode, we explore:

• Why visibility affects sensitive nervous systems differently

• The hidden cost of being seen without protection

• How burnout often begins with subtle self-erasure

• Why this is usually structural — not personal

• What it might feel like to be visible without bracing

Reflection Questions:

• Where does being visible cost me more than it should?

• What do I brace for when I’m seen?

• What kind of support would make visibility feel sustainable?

Flower Essence Companion:
Walnut — a threshold flower associated with transition, protection during change, and staying intact while crossing into new phases of visibility.

If this episode resonates and you’re a healer navigating visibility and business without wanting to betray your integrity, you can explore more about the Gaian Business Academy here

https://saraestelle.com/gaian-business-academy/

Rise, Healer, Rise is a space for nature-led, soul-rooted women walking their path with integrity and depth.

In this episode of Rise Healer Rise, Sara Estelle is joined by Jenny Howarth, homeopath and founder of Yorkshire Flower Essences, for a rich and reflective conversation about river essences, flowing water, and the memory held within place.

Together, they explore the idea that while rivers move and change, the banks and riverbeds hold deep energetic memory - of land, history, emotion, and human presence. Jenny shares her lived experience of working with rivers as living intelligences, and how river essences can support healing, resilience, and reconnection in a time of collective transition.

This conversation opens a wider vision too: what might emerge if many people began consciously co-creating essences with their local rivers, forming a living map of water, land, and memory across the UK and beyond?

Jenny brings her unique perspective as a homeopath, a Graduate of the School of Gaia, and the creator of the Verbeia Essences, alongside her work with the Bailey, Bach, and Scintilla ranges. Her work is rooted in deep listening, guardianship of place, and respect for nature’s own wisdom.

Jenny has also generously shared supporting documents to accompany this episode, offering further insight into river essences and place-based vibrational work. These can be found in the show notes.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen more closely, and remember our relationship with flowing water – not as a resource, but as a teacher.

Jenny has kindly shared resources below with listeners of her own journey and is inviting you to contact her if you are called.

https://bit.ly/JennyHowarthRiverEssences

Contact Jenny via her website below

⁠https://www.yorkshirefloweressences.com/⁠

Interested in Becoming an Expert in Flower and Vibrational Essences and perhaps creating your own range?

Explore the School of Gaia in Flower and Vibrational Essences below

⁠https://saraestelle.com/school-of-gaia-for-healing/

In this episode, I am joined by School of Gaia graduate Nina Ritchie, a wise and grounded practitioner working in the world of conscious parenting and family support.

Nina’s journey began with deep scepticism. Flower essences made no sense to her at all. She was supporting mothers, children, and families through intense emotional landscapes, but the idea that a flower could shift anything in the human field felt impossible.

And yet, something in her kept calling her back.

Nina shares how she moved from doubt into a lived relationship with nature’s intelligence, and how this path eventually led her to train as a professional through the School of Gaia. She speaks honestly about the moments that changed everything for her, the essences she now relies on, and the emotional realities she supports in her work.

Together we explore:

• essences for exhaustion

• navigating chaotic or uncertain times

• the transition of empty-nesting

• how subtle vibrational support can hold mothers, families, and children through change

Nina’s story is a beautiful reminder that you do not need to begin with certainty. You only need to begin with curiosity. The rest unfolds through your relationship with nature, moment by moment.

If you would like to connect with Nina, you can reach out through the links in the show notes.

To explore training with the School of Gaia and becoming a practitioner yourself, you can visit:
https://saraestelle.com/school-of-gaia-for-healing/

In this episode of Rise Healer Rise, I’m joined by my colleague, Sally Arthurs, Founder of Beyond the Pattern: Creating Conscious Change.

Sally helps people uncover and gently release the hidden patterns that keep them feeling stuck - often without them even realising where those patterns began. Through intuitive guidance, vibrational essences, and soul-level healing, she brings awareness to pre and peri-natal trauma, showing how our earliest experiences can silently shape our reactions, behaviours, and choices.

What I love about Sally’s work is her message of hope and possibility: you don’t need to relive the pain or even know the full story to create change. Instead, with simple awareness and choice, it’s possible to reclaim harmony, ease, and a deeper connection to your own wisdom.

Together we explore:

• What “life beyond the patterns” really means

• Why pre and peri-natal trauma often goes unseen

• Common patterns people experience without knowing their root

• How change can happen without re-traumatising

• Gentle, practical ways to begin shifting patterns and stepping into ease

Whether you’ve been navigating the same challenges for years or are just beginning to notice where you feel stuck, this conversation will help you see that lasting change is always possible.

Connect with Sally
Learn more about Sally’s work and visit her website here 

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Rooted Resonance: Healing Our Inner & Outer Ecosystem with Frequencies & Vibration — with Eva Van Strien

"If you want to find the secrets of the Universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration." – Nikola Tesla

In this episode of Rise Healer Rise, I’m joined by Eva van Strien, a trans-disciplinary designer, researcher, and innovator whose work bridges design, science, and indigenous wisdom — all rooted in a deep love for our Earth.

We explore:

• The living intelligence of form, sound, and sacred geometry

• Eva’s unique design approach inspired by Traditional Ecological Knowledge

• The power of working with frequencies to regenerate our inner and outer ecosystems

• How her projects Harmonising Hydroglyphs and Taste of Sound were seeded during her time in the School of Gaia Flower Essence Diploma

Together, we reflect on what it means to truly listen — to ourselves, to water, to nature — and to co-create in a way that honours the unseen yet powerful currents of life.

About Eva van Strien

Eva is a trans-disciplinary designer, researcher and innovator introducing a new holistic and conscious design approach, deeply embedded in Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the teachings of the wise Natural world. Her frequency-based work is grounded in sacred geometry and aims to restore harmony between our inner and outer environments.

Explore Eva’s Work
Follow Eva and stay updated on her projects and exhibitions via:
🌐 www.evavanstrien.nl
📸 @evavanstrien

🎧 Tune in to this episode for a rich exploration of resonance, regeneration, and the future of vibrational healing.

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