We Are Woman

This week on We Are Woman, we sat with Bec, founder of The Sharp Mind and a Strategic Psychotherapist who works in partnership with your nervous system. Using transformative modalities including Facilitated Breath Repatterning (FBR) breathwork, hypnotherapy, somatic practices, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), Bec helps you restore balance and healing.

In this episode, Bec shares what it’s like to live with deep sensitivity and responsibility, and a nervous system shaped by both love and vigilance.

She speaks openly about the fear of being “too much,” how hyper-responsibility became an identity, and the ways generational trauma can shape patterns of alertness and self-monitoring. She also shares her bottom-up approach to healing, why the body comes before the mind, and what makes nervous-system work, including FBR Breathwork, so different through safety, sequencing, co-regulation, and gently expanding capacity without force.

This conversation is for the woman who carries a lot, often without realising how much, and for those of us living in a body that doesn’t know how to truly rest. It’s an invitation to meet sensitivity not as a burden, but as a strength, and to remember that responsibility can be a choice, not an identity.

Thank you for listening to this episode. There are several ways you can work with us to deepen your own practice of returning to yourself and finding more safety, clarity and truth within.

Sara de Clercq

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 Coaching & Self-Inquiry (Online) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

Couples FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

For inspiration on creative, authentic & radiant living, loving life & amazing free content, follow Sara on Instagram ⁠HERE⁠

Bec Sharp

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 Psychotherapy (Sydney North or Online) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney North) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

For embodied wisdom, stories from the heart, and practices that bring you home to yourself, follow me on Instagram ⁠HERE⁠

Melissa Moss

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney South) → ⁠⁠BOOK HERE⁠⁠

For soulful, honest reflections, lived-in insight, and an inside look at Mel’s work as a practitioner, follow Mel on Instagram ⁠⁠HERE⁠⁠.

Find out more about our upcoming FBR Practitioner Training with Breathwork Byron starting in April 2026 → ⁠FIND OUT MORE HERE⁠

Resources + Links

• We Are Woman Podcast website:⁠ https://www.wearewoman.com.au/⁠

• Follow along on Instagram: @wearewomanpodcast

• If this episode resonates, share it with a woman you love because we’re not meant to do this alone.

What is FBR Breathwork? FBR Breathwork (Facilitated Breath Repatterning) is a trauma-aware, body-based practice that supports nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and new internal patterns, through the breath.

Authenticity isn’t something we do alone. It’s something we practice in relationship. In the moments we’re seen, challenged, mirrored, and held.

In this episode, we explore the dance between authenticity and belonging. We discuss the ways we shapeshift to be accepted, the masks we wear to stay connected, and the deeper truth underneath it all that belonging isn’t about fitting in, it’s about being met.

We speak to shame as the invisible bridge that disconnects us from both authenticity and belonging, the role of attachment and nervous system safety, and why healing doesn’t happen in isolation. It happens in the face of each other. This is a conversation about coming home to yourself, without abandoning yourself to stay connected.

Thank you for listening to this episode. There are several ways you can work with us to deepen your own practice of returning to yourself and finding more safety, clarity and truth within.

Sara de Clercq

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 Coaching & Self-Inquiry (Online) → BOOK HERE

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → BOOK HERE

Couples FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → BOOK HERE

For inspiration on creative, authentic & radiant living, loving life & amazing free content, follow Sara on Instagram HERE

Rebecca Sharp

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 Psychotherapy (Sydney North or Online) → BOOK HERE

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney North) → BOOK HERE

For embodied wisdom, stories from the heart, and practices that bring you home to yourself, follow me on Instagram HERE

Melissa Moss

Contact - [email protected]

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney South) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

For soulful, honest reflections, lived-in insight, and an inside look at Mel’s work as a practitioner, follow Mel on Instagram ⁠HERE⁠.

Find out more about our upcoming FBR Practitioner Training with Breathwork Byron starting in April 2026 → FIND OUT MORE HERE

Resources + Links

• We Are Woman Podcast website: https://www.wearewoman.com.au/

• Follow along on Instagram: @wearewomanpodcast

• If this episode resonates, share it with a woman you love because we’re not meant to do this alone.

What is FBR Breathwork? FBR Breathwork (Facilitated Breath Repatterning) is a trauma-aware, body-based practice that supports nervous system regulation, emotional processing, and new internal patterns, through the breath.

What if the safety you’ve been chasing externally… was never going to land?

In The End of Holding It All Together, we explore safety as a lived, embodied experience. We discuss how control can masquerade as safety, the childhood blueprints that shaped our nervous systems, and what it means to build steadiness from within (even when fear and uncertainty are present).

This is an invitation to soften the bracing, honour the pace, and remember: safety isn’t the absence of discomfort, it’s the presence of you.

In this episode, we explore:

• The shift from external reassurance to internal safety

• Adaptive vs maladaptive patterns (and running “old programs” on autopilot)

• Signs of safety in the body (hello, jaw tension)

  Pacing, capacity, and expanding your window of tolerance

• “Shalom” as wholeness — safety as a return to what’s true and whole
  

  Follow We Are Woman on ⁠Instagram⁠

  Download the FREE Woman Leader’s guide made by Sara de Clercq to Optimal Health, Wholeness, and Radiance: Harnessing Breath, Body, Emotions & Mind for Sustainable Success. → ⁠DOWNLOAD HERE⁠

  
  

  There are several ways you can work with us to deepen your own practice of returning to yourself and finding more safety, clarity and truth within:

  Sara de Clercq 1.1 Coaching & Self-Inquiry (Online) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

  1.1 FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

  Rebecca Sharp 1.1 Psychotherapy sessions (Sydney North or Online) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

  1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney North) → ⁠BOOK HERE⁠

  For plenty of free tools and great content, follow Bec on ⁠Instagram ⁠

  Melissa Moss1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney South) → email [email protected]

  Find out more about our upcoming FBR Practitioner Training with Breathwork Byron starting in April 2026 → ⁠FIND OUT MORE HERE

Thank you for listening

This first episode is a love letter to our sisters. It's an opening into the conversations we're here to have together. We share why this podcast exists, what we're exploring, and the space we're creating: one rooted in depth, embodiment, honesty, and connection.

This is not a podcast about fixing yourself or becoming someone new. It's an invitation to stop performing, soften into your body, and explore what it really means to be a woman beneath the roles, expectations, and stories we've inherited.

If you're craving something slower, truer, and more relational, you're in the right place. This is where we begin.

Follow We Are Woman on Instagram

Download the FREE Woman Leader’s guide made by Sara de Clercq to Optimal Health, Wholeness, and Radiance: Harnessing Breath, Body, Emotions & Mind for Sustainable Success. → DOWNLOAD HERE

There are several ways you can work with us to deepen your own practice of returning to yourself and finding more safety, clarity and truth within:

Sara de Clercq 1.1 Coaching & Self-Inquiry (Online) → BOOK HERE

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Byron surrounds) → BOOK HERE

Rebecca Sharp 1.1 Psychotherapy sessions (Sydney North or Online) → BOOK HERE

1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney North) → BOOK HERE

For plenty of free tools and great content, follow Bec on Instagram

Melissa Moss1.1 FBR Breathwork (Sydney South) → email [email protected]

Find out more about our upcoming FBR Practitioner Training with Breathwork Byron starting in April 2026 → FIND OUT MORE HERE