Helping people rewire their brains out of trauma and chronic illness.
RELEASE
STORED TRAUMA
REWIRE
YOUR BRAIN
STEP INTO
SOULFUL REST
Too many people are alive
but not truly living.
Without the right tools and techniques to rewire their brains out of trauma and chronic illness, many are missing out on a life of joy and vitality. Traditional treatments don't always provide the holistic healing needed for lasting change.
I offer an innovative approach that combines principles of neuroplasticity, Polyvagal Theory, and spiritual formation to help people heal from within. My unique toolkit provides somatic (body-focused), mental, and spiritual resources to help you live out of a story in which you matter and are wired with power to heal.
How do I signal safety and connection to my nervous system via its language of sensation?
How do I become attuned to my nervous system's needs?
How do I process painful emotions and stay in my window of tolerance?
How can I release stored trauma from my nervous system?
What is the role of my body in my faith in God?
Comprehensive and holistic healing from within.
By addressing the mind, body, and soul, I help individuals heal from within and cultivate a lasting sense of peace and joy.
Uncover tools and techniques.
Develop the holistic tools and techniques to move beyond pain and suffering into a life of joy and vitality.
Reclaim power for life ahead.
Learn how to reclaim agency over your health and well-being so you can create the life you want.
Live each moment with intentionality.
Develop an intentional lifestyle where you connect deeply with yourself and find peace and self-acceptance for the journey.
Reconnect to the joy of moving.
Find freedom from years of stagnation due to physical or mental health challenges by engaging fully in all aspects of life.
Start your healing journey today.
JOIN A CLASS
Learn research-driven somatic practices to help you effectively release stored trauma while rewiring your brain. Take control of your health and well-being with the knowledge and tools to create real transformation.
JOIN MEMBERSHIP
Open the door to long-term healing by joining Restore, your essential hub for holistic restoration. Release stored trauma, rewire your nervous system, and step into soulful rest with gentle and effective body, mind, and heart practices.
Finding my own health was elusive.
I spent the better part of six years in bed, so I know the grief:
- You lose meaningful relationships.
- You lose the capacity to work and have financial stability.
- You lose the capacity to dream about the future.
- You lose a sense of safety and peace in your own body.
But I didn't stay there - I got my life back!
READ ABOUT MY JOURNEYStart your journey toward healing and reclaiming your life.
01: SHOW UP
Join a class to learn gentle, research-driven somatic practices to help you discharge stored trauma and rewire your brain through a holistic approach that acknowledges and honors every part of you.
02: SIGN UP
Get on the waitlist for Restore, a holistic healing toolkit to guide you into long-term healing. Unlock a wealth of knowledge with this monthly membership, which gives you access to an expansive video library and virtual classes.
03: STEP OUT
Step forward and begin to participate in the parts of life you've been missing out on for so long, bringing with you the tools and techniques to move beyond chronic pain and suffering into a life of joy and vitality.
Words from the community — on the path to
living their best lives.
Michelle
Sarah's Restore toolkit is literally transforming my life! I've been a member of Restore for five months and some days I have to pinch myself because I cannot believe how much different I feel. For decades I wanted to be the person who could 'control' and regulate my moods, but I couldn't and it made me feel profoundly shameful. When I discovered Sarah on Instagram and started to understand the reasons why this was happening, I knew I was on the right path to healing.
TANDA
Restore has helped me with depression and pain. I had tried 6 other brain retraining programs before Restore and hadn't seen much progress. I finally started seeing results with Sarah because she taught me how to fine-tune my practices. Sarah's program is the most in-depth and complete that I have found.
JONATHAN
Restore has been a lifeline during the healing process, and doing somatic therapy has been something I look forward to every day. It is the calmest, most grounded part of my day. Before joining the membership, my body wasn’t responding to the neural retraining program I was in. I needed a bridge to signal safety to my nervous system, and now neural retraining is so much easier. Now I use them both, and it’s a game changer. Well worth every penny to feel myself again.
JEANIE
Restore has been my #1, go-to source to help me navigate (and heal from) the challenges of chronic invisible illness that are a direct result of trauma and stress. I cannot even begin to describe how important and life-changing Restore has been for me: it is a clear, calm beacon of hope and trust in a process that sometimes feels overwhelming.
Don’t let doubt hold you back from healing.
No doubt, you've tried everything. You've tried the therapies and self-help books, doctors, and treatments. You may have even begun to give up on finding true healing and inner peace.
I understand this struggle and want to help.
Combining doctoral work in Spiritual Formation, a certified apprenticeship with a Somatic Practitioner, and certified training in BioSpiritual Focusing and Somatic Processing, I've applied my knowledge, skills and experience to help more than 5,000 people work through their journey toward healing.
I offer an innovative perspective on health and wellness that blends Polyvagal Theory, principles of neuroplasticity, spirituality, and somatic processing.
You get the tools to rewire your nervous system using holistic methods that affirm and transform every part of your person. My goal is to guide you in creating the life you want, by helping you understand how to work with your autonomic nervous system.
Do you still have questions?
Let us help!
This is the only place where you will find a holistic approach to healing that engages the somatic (body), cognitive (mind), and the spiritual (soul) parts of who you are.
SOMATIC TOOLS
• Learn to signal safety to your limbic system via its language of sensation
• Reset your vagus nerve to move your nervous system toward regulation
• Engage gentle movements to regulate your nervous system in its varying states of sympathetic activation, freeze, and dorsal vagal shutdown
• Break up tension patterns to introduce relaxation and regulation to the nervous system
COGNITIVE TOOLS
• Engage new ways of thinking about yourself, your body, your relationships and your life
• Practice imaginative visualizations to signal safety to your survival brain, so your body can release stored trauma
• Process grief and anger productively, in small doses that keep you inside your Window of Tolerance
• Tend to shame, bringing the story of your inherent value into your body
SPIRITUAL TOOLS
• Engage imaginative spiritual practices like breath prayer, Ignatian Prayer, and Lectio Divina that form the heart and rewire the brain.
• Practice self-compassion, and learn to see yourself through the eyes of mercy.
• Essential to your healing is opening to this story of mattering, because you matter.
• Spiritual formation is where we let God teach us the worth of our soul and the goodness of our body. This process then transforms the way we use the tools.
Re-patterning the nervous system has helped many with:
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Overwhelm
- Long Covid
- CFS/ME
- Dysautonomia
- MCAS
- Fibromyalgia
- Lyme
- MCS
- CIRS
- Chronic fatigue
- Chronic pain
- POTS
- Food / chemical sensitivities
- Sensory sensitivities
There are no prerequisites for participating in my monthly membership, Restore, or my monthly classes.
Releasing stored trauma and re-patterning the nervous system helps bring the body back into homeostasis, where it can fight infection, heal the gut, balance hormones, repair at a cellular level and more.
The process of re-patterning the nervous system is an incremental one, requiring focused, consistent practice over time.
So many people have found freedom from anxiety disorders, depression, chronic pain, PTSD, and c-PTSD by rewiring their limbic system, including me!
There is so much hope!
You will have access to Restore resources for the duration of your active subscription. Once your subscription is cancelled, you will no longer have access.
If you have any questions or concerns related to somatic practice, we encourage you to seek advice from your doctor before participating.
As a subscription service, you'll be billed every month (with a month-to-month subscription) or every 6 months (with a 6-month membership) until you cancel.
All monthly subscription sales are nonrefundable and nontransferable.
There are no additional or hidden fees for Restore. You can either choose a month-to-month subscription for $49/month or a 6-month subscription for $267/every 6-months.
As a subscription service, you will be billed automatically on a monthly basis (for a month-to-month subscription) or every 6 months (for a 6-month subscription) until you cancel.
The Restore video library will help you identify both short and long-term progress!
Learn more about me HERE!
Trauma occurs when the nervous system experiences an event - or events - in one of the following ways:
Too much, too soon, too quickly.
Too little, too late, too slowly.
Trauma happens when a nervous system isn’t sufficiently resourced to cope with an event or set of experiences. The stressors may be present in too high a volume, at too fast a pace, before the nervous system feels equipped to deal with them. Or, support and connection might come too slowly, too late.
The key is: how does your (involuntary) survival brain perceive the event? Does it feel resourced to deal with it? If it feels like it’s lacking control, helpless, and/or under-resourced, traumatization occurs, and the trauma loop ensues, in which stories of scarcity and overwhelm can persist.
Beginning to heal trauma entails cultivating relationships and finding resources that bring your nervous system out of sympathetic overdrive (i.e., “fight or flight”), dorsal vagal shutdown, or freeze; and repatterning it, teaching it flexible, healthy rhythms of activation and deactivation.
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VIDEO AND PRINTABLE RESOURCE
You can help your nervous system heal by learning to process your painful emotions in small doses that don’t push you outside your nervous system’s Window of Tolerance.
