Episode 49 of Via Love and Evolution is a heartfelt catch-up. One that unfolds into something deeper than expected.

Sarah returns from a transformative retreat in Roatán, sharing reflections on life, love, and the cultural richness of the experience. What she brings back isn’t just memories, but a renewed sense of presence feeling reinvigorated, inspired, and more connected to what truly matters.

Her stories open the door for Katrina to step in and share pieces of her own growth insights and realizations that have recently clicked into place. What emerges is a beautiful full-circle moment, where separate experiences weave together into something meaningful, grounded, and shared.

Together, they reflect on the power of stepping away, gaining perspective, and allowing life to reveal its lessons in its own timing. This conversation is an invitation to notice your own integration points the quiet moments when things finally make sense.

We close in deep gratitude for these reminders, both big and small. The biggest one of all: Love is all-encompassing.

On this episode of Via Love and Evolution, Sarah and Katrina explore the landscape of present and collective grief. Both in our personal lives and in the wider human story unfolding around us.

Together, they reflect on grief not as something to outrun or suppress, but as a profound teacher. Emotions ebb and flow, and learning how to stay with them, rather than numb or resist is part of the deeper training. The kind of training that builds real inner strength. The kind of warriorship rooted not in force, but in emotional capacity.

From there, the conversation expands into how their humanitarian values shape the way they respond to the current cultural moment and the kind of change they hope to see in the world. What does it mean to live aligned with compassion? How do our values guide action without collapsing into despair?

The episode closes with a reflection on shifting astrological energies and the possibility that the larger cosmic tides may be mirroring the shifts we’re feeling collectively as a human race.

This is a conversation about grief, growth, responsibility, and hope—about learning to hold the weight of the world without hardening our hearts. Via love. Via evolution.

Episode 47 lands on our one-year anniversary of Via Love and Evolution. Happy Anniversary, Via! 🎉 This episode holds celebration and honesty, reflection, laughter and growth.

Sarah and Katrina take time to reflect on the podcast that almost didn’t happen—the hesitation, the vulnerable beginnings, the cringey moments, and the deep sense of accomplishment that has grown alongside it. We celebrate doing this work our way, and we feel immense gratitude for every single listener who has joined us—from right next door to across the world.

We’re in it for another year, and we can’t wait to continue this journey of growth and evolution with you through the next cycle around the sun. It’s the Year of the Fire Horse, and we’re ready to run free.

At the same time, we name what’s real right now: with so much being revealed in the world, it can be hard to shake the anger, worry, and uncertainty many of us are carrying. Sarah and Katrina share openly about their experiences of transmuting heavy emotions, unlearning language and labels that no longer fit, and listening to our intuition.

Katrina shares a story about receiving a particularly tone-deaf DM, which opens a candid conversation about judgment, mislabeling, and humbling lessons.

If Via has taught us anything this year, it’s this:

In episode 46, we welcome back returning guest Hilary Buckwalter-Wilde for an essential and deeply impactful conversation. A must-listen for anyone committed to healing, telling the truth, and building safer relational futures.

Listeners may remember Hilary from Episode 5, where she courageously shared her story of surviving narcissistic abuse within an intimate partner relationship. Since then, she has continued to transform her lived experience into meaningful action—flipping the script in an incredible way.

Hilary is the Founder and Executive Director of Healing Hearts, a survivor-led nonprofit dedicated to creating safer healing spaces, healthier dating ecosystems, and systemic accountability for intimate partner violence and narcissistic abuse. A trauma-informed practitioner with more than two decades of experience, she brings a rare blend of scholarly depth, lived expertise, and visionary leadership to the movement for relational safety.

Together, we explore the traits of the larger system of harm our society has been steeped in for centuries. As Hilary powerfully names, this is “trauma we call culture.” It feels familiar because it’s everywhere—even in spaces we label as safe or growth-oriented: families of origin, churches, yoga studios, therapy offices, healing communities, and dating platforms. When harm hides in plain sight, it can be difficult to name. This conversation helps us do exactly that.

Hilary’s soon-to-be-launched organization seeks to protect, advocate, educate, and support those who are ready to tell the truth about patterns of harm—especially when those truths are inconvenient or disruptive. We discuss what it takes to move from silence to clarity, from isolation to collective support.

This episode is the epitome of heavy to hopeful. It was an honor to celebrate Hilary and witness this brilliant, necessary work being birthed into the world. This is survivorship 101 and she wrote the code.

VIA Evolution is on the cusp of its one-year anniversary, and Episode 45 offers a beautiful moment to look back on this past year—and on our past selves—with compassion.

Sarah and Katrina acknowledge what so many of us are feeling: the social climate is intense right now. It’s a lot. We’re feeling it too. Taking a mental health break last week felt necessary; creating space to sit with the tender parts of ourselves and to acknowledge the deep-rooted pains being brought to the surface.

Has anyone struck a nerve with you lately? You’re not alone.

In this episode, Sarah and Katrina share openly about how they’ve navigated being triggered—by narrow thinking, abrasive language, aggressive tones, and ostracizing behavior—while still holding all of it. They talk honestly about the ways we sometimes numb out when things feel overwhelming, and what it looks like to navigate back to presence.

As with many conversations this past cycle, we take time to verbally process, bear witness to the pain, name what’s happening, and feel what we feel. And—because this is Via—we also find a way to laugh! This one had us cackling. And we truly needed it.

In this episode, Katrina names the familiar feeling of overwhelm and the not-so-subtle way it can show up as irritability (i.e. "bitchiness") when life starts to tax the nervous system. Sarah cuts straight to the heart of it: we’re at capacity right now.

Winter isn’t meant to be a season of running from the proverbial wolves of trauma, grief, and sadness. And yet, sometimes our bodies remember before we do. Sometimes we can’t help what resurfaces when things slow down.

This January marks the seven-year anniversary of Katrina’s brother Jess’s passing, and with it comes a remembering of the pain, the weight, and also of what carried her through that impossible time. What saved her then is the same thing that offers warmth now: love.

Together, Katrina and Sarah explore how to channel what sustains us when the world feels cold and heavy. How to remember what fuels the torch that lights the way forward. 

Episode 43 is different. Katrina and Sarah call Minneapolis home, and in this moment, it feels essential to speak from where we are—physically, emotionally, and collectively. In the midst of current events and unrest in our city, we come together to check in, name the tension we’re carrying, and share our perspectives with honesty and care.

This conversation is real. We slow down to feel our feelings—and yes, it gets emotional. As we move toward the heart of the matter, we explore why it’s crucial to find a way through in order to know what is true for you. To hold with acceptance that light does not exist without dark—it's always going to be both. The question becomes: now what? What are we going to do?

We gently speculate on shared fears:

The impending grief feels familiar. The hollow ache that follows loss and serves as a reminder of the immense suffering unfolding in our world today. And still, we return to what grounds us. Via Love and Evolution is aptly named: we arrive at truth via love, and via growth.

Together, we explore multiple ways through—what to do with rage instead of spilling it onto others, how to recognize where your power actually lives, and how to discern what your work is in moments like this. As always, we leave room for levity, softness, and love, even when things feel heavy. This episode is an invitation to stay present, stay human, and keep recognizing hope.

We’re back!

We’re starting 2026 with a powerful, compassionate conversation alongside our beloved returning guest, Dr. Karen Nelson, board-certified licensed clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist.

Together, we unpack the exhaustion and harm of the “new year, new you” resolution hype and the fear-based marketing that so often dominates the health and wellness industry. In the age of influence—where transformation is sold as a prerequisite for worth—we pause to refresh our collective awareness around mental health, disordered eating, and the deeply ingrained belief that we must become someone else in order to simply be.

Dr. Karen brings her signature blend of clarity and comfort, reminding us that we are not broken things to be fixed, but normal humans with emotions meant to be experienced. With compassion and wisdom, she invites us to slow down, practice presence, and relearn how to trust ourselves. Always reminding us that - it's never to late and healing is possible!

Instead of rigid diets, glow-up goals, and grand visions that often deflate more than they deliver, Dr. Karen guides us back to our own lived wisdom. Not to label ourselves as victims of our circumstances, but to approach our past with curiosity—so we can more consciously shape our future. We already carry the innate ability to move from hopelessness to power.

This episode is rich with insight, reassurance, and practical reframes that serve us all. Cheers to the new year—and to trusting ourselves to remember we are already enough. 

Katrina and Sarah close out 2025 in deep reflection and celebration, honoring the completion of 41 podcast episodes this year. In this final episode of the season, they pause to feel the empowerment of that accomplishment—and to name all that has been integrated along the way.

Through honest reflection, they recognize a phase of growth now complete, emerging more dialed-in, turned-on, and increasingly trusting of the present moment. This way of being doesn’t happen by accident—it takes practice, pause, and a willingness to embrace our innate personal power.

Sarah reflects on the impact of her new favorite read, PUSSY: A Reclamation by Mama Gena, while Katrina names the phase she’s recently moved through—and what she can now see clearly from the other side. Together, they self-model what it means to learn through love rather than punishment, and to meet growth with compassion.

Finally, they pause—intentionally—taking a couple of weeks off to integrate and restore.

New episodes return Wednesday, January 7, 2026.

A can’t-miss episode that’s sure to keep you warm this winter… wink wink. Sarah and Katrina are joined once again by the luminous Rebecca James Alsum—Certified Sexologist, Sexual Wellness Coach, Spring Forest Qigong Trainer, and Trauma-Conscious Yoga Instructor. Rebecca brings her grounded wisdom and playful ease into a conversation that feels so real and relatable, you might swear she’s sitting at the foot of your bed!

Together, the three explore the evolving landscape of sex and intimacy within long-term relationships—the tenderness, the tension, the misfires, the magic. Sarah and Katrina open up with rare vulnerability, sharing their own intimate stories about navigating desire, connection, and the complexities that arise when you’re building a life with someone. Their honesty creates a space where listeners can see their own experiences reflected with compassion and clarity.

What makes this conversation truly special is Rebecca’s uncanny ability to get to the heart of what matters most in intimate relationships. She normalizes what feels messy, brings calm to what can feel anxious, and offers accessible insights about softness, openness, breath, and rekindling curiosity—especially when you’re already “at home” with a partner. Her guidance invites listeners to rediscover desire not as pressure, but as possibility.

Packed with practical tools, generous wisdom, and more than a few laugh-blush moments, this episode is an invitation to deepen your understanding of yourself and your relationships. And Rebecca wants your input, too—send us your questions about sex, intimacy, and personal wellness. Your curiosities will help shape future conversations.