Hello Couragemakers and welcome to episode 117 of The Couragemakers Podcast!

This week I’m chatting with Sarah Brassard.

In a nutshell, Sarah helps people re-establish peace inside. For the last twenty-five years, Sarah has been guiding women from a place of struggle in life to one of grace, peace, and ease through sacred self-care. She is the author of Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within published in 2018: a book that details the self-care practices that sparked Sarah’s healing journey and inspired her work in helping women move from trauma to transformation..

Sarah lives in New Hampshire and loves helping people heal through trauma with spiritual practices. What makes her most happy is being around people that have said YES to living authentically and finding the peaceful path.

In this week’s episode we’re really diving into everything self care and living a life in tune with who we are deep down.

Sarah shares her journey and takes us behind the scenes of her own healing journey. We talk about being a highly sensitive person and how important safety is, building a self care practice, how Sarah learned to take her mask off and how self care is non negotiable.

We have a great conversation about the ripple effect of being compassionate on ourselves, the emotional, mental and spiritual sides of self care and Sarah shares her wonderful definition of audacious self care.

Sarah has so many reframes and ideas that I love, including the idea of having a spiritual bank account that you deposit and withdraw from.

This episode is a great reminder of how veering off the path can lead to some of the most important lessons we can learn, and why self care is never selfish. If you’re interested in building a self care practice and starting or continuing your own healing journey, this episode is for you!

Enjoy today’s show!

About Sarah

Sarah Brassard helps people re-establish peace inside. Once a safe inner environment has been secured people return to themselves with a willingness to observe the experiences that have kept them stuck. Before long, with this new viewpoint – that of loving kindness, their awareness begins to change.

She is the author of r">Inside: A Guide to the Resources Within published in 2018. The book details the self-care practices that sparked Sarah’s healing journey and inspired her work in helping women move from trauma to transformation..

Sarah lives in New Hampshire and loves helping people heal through trauma with spiritual practices. What makes her most happy is being around people that have said YES to living authentically and finding the peaceful path.

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Things We Talked About

• How Sarah initially dealt with loss and trauma by putting on a mask and what started her own healing journey

• Feelings of safety as highly sensitive people

• Taking ownership of your life

• Building a self care practice

• The ripple effect of being compassionate to ourselves

• Why self care is non negotiable

• Sarah’s definition of audacious self care

• How veering off the path can lead to some of the most important lessons we learn

• The idea of a spiritual savings account

Resources

• Elizabeth Gilbert

• Kundalini Yoga

• The Slow Simmer of Burnout - Sarah Brassard

• Yogi Bhajan

• Mister Rogers documentary

About Couragemakers and your host 

I’m Meg and I’m the host of Couragemakers and founder of That Hummingbird Life. I’m an INFJ creative and multi-passionate who has a bit of a notebook and post-it note obsession, loves foot-stomping country music and likes her hot chocolate with way too much chocolate.

I started Couragemakers because I wanted to create a platform for passionate and unconventional women to have honest conversations and to share their stories, struggles and dreams. The intention behind this podcast is to inspire and encourage creative and mission-driven women to live a wholehearted life and follow the beat of their drum.

When I'm not recording episodes, writing bullshit-free Sunday pep Talks to my wonderful Couragemakers community or working 1:1 with clients, I'm usually covered in paint or walking my wonderfully weird cockapoo Merlin.