Hi, I’m Sara. I’m an advanced EFT and Matrix Reimprinting practitioner, as well as a Focalizing practitioner. Over the past five years, my healing journey has centred around reconnecting with and reparenting my inner child. This tender relationship has led me to falling in love with life again.
I was the firstborn to parents still deeply entangled in their own wounds and hunted by demons of their unhealed traumas. I was born into an atmosphere of chronic illness, dysfunction, shame, fear, and emotional absence.
From an early age, I sensed the unspoken desperation in my parents and felt an unrelenting pressure to fill the void within them. A heaviness, I am able to give name to today, years into my own therapy. I grew up tangled in intangible vines of responsibility for my own parent’s happiness. Jung’s words resonate:
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of a parent.”
I also deeply feel the truth of Thich Nhat Hanh’s words:
“The greatest inheritance a child can receive from their parents is their own happiness.”
My early environment conditioned me to associate closeness with the threat of being overwhelmed, invaded, or controlled. I became a parentified child, forced to grow up too soon. Instead of being nurtured and protected, I became the emotional caretaker by being a little girl who wore various masks named: brave, independent, self-sufficient..Wearing these masks became a full-time job. I learned to suppress my own authenticity just to keep the family from falling apart.
But beneath it all, I came into this world with something else, a fierceness.
A drive to speak the unspeakable.
To descend into the shadows and return with truth.
To challenge.
To sense and follow the light of consciousness.
These parts of me were not welcomed. They were confronting. Uncomfortable. Too much.
So how do I know these are my gifts? My calling? Because they never left.
Because no matter how much I adapted or hid, this is what I still do.
I illuminate the depths.
I walk into the shadows.
And I return with truth.
Fiercely. Always.
According to Dr. Gabor Maté, children will always sacrifice their authenticity, their true feelings, needs, and self-expression, to maintain attachment (connection) with their caregivers.
I believe that my parents were steered by their own deep childhood deficiencies. They were navigating the world emotionally and energetically from a perspective of a wounded child, still awaiting the unconditional love and care and equipped to pass those resources on. Instead what transpired was an attempt to reverse nature’s order. My parents attempted to receive from their children the quality of love and care that can only flow from the caregiver towards the fully-dependant child. It is like forcing the waterfall to retreat upstream. The role reversal in my family created a deep sense of instability. I grew into someone who was hyper-independent, exhausted, always people-pleasing, and quietly aching for the care I never received. I was like a radio, tuned into everyone else’s emotional frequency, transmitting their signals, but losing the sound of my own station. I learnt to create (perceived) safety by shapeshifting into versions acceptable by people.
My healing has been about turning inward, tuning back into the rhythm of my own heart, the beat of my own drum. And each time I do, I hear bells, soft and sacred, welcoming me home.
I am a cycle breaker and the black sheep of the family
I’ve always been unafraid to reveal and heal toxic patterns
I am a highly sensitive human being
My heightened sensitivity, once a challenge, is now a blessing that allows me to deeply attune to others’ experiences
I am a trailblazer, a torch carrier
I believe I was given an abundance of light to navigate and transform the darkness I was born into, and now I use that light to help others illuminate their shadows
I am an animal lover, dancer, singer, yoga teacher, intuitive wild woman, curious explorer of inner landscapes, truth seeker, facilitator, inner path companion
My mission
My mission is to help you hear your beating heart. My intention is to help you transform your wounds into gifts for the world. I am living proof that the path of hope and deep healing is ready to welcome your footprints. I’m honoured to help guide you through your first few junctions, until your own inner compass is ready to lead the way again.
That compass is already in you, it brought you here.
