About Sarah
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I am an Elementum certified coach. I am trauma-informed. I specialize in nervous system regulation, somatics, and breathwork. I am informed in developmental psychology with an emphasis in Internal Family Systems, attachment theory and conscious non-violent communication.
I've been through a lot of life's ups and downs and offer my wisdom and a safe, comforting space of non-judgement for my clients.
I have successfully navigated moves across the country and abroad. I am the mother of two beautiful children, now a pre-teen and a teenager. As a successful actress and dancer I know what it means to struggle in an industry obsessed with body image.
Through hard work, the grace of God and a good sense of humor I emerged as a successful health and fitness coach. I love my body for it's unique wisdom and for its strength and endurance.
I live a full, embodied, content life as a mostly single working mom. I'm currently navigating all the fun and all the complexities of dating in my 40s.
Next I will navigate my children growing and leaving our family home.
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When I was in my twenties I was a driven and successful actress and dancer. I studied with the Juilliard School and at the American Conservatory Theater. I fell in love with a soon to be famous singer and moved across the country to New York to be with him while he was on Broadway. We got married young - I was 24. We worked hard and were successful performers in New York and London. We moved, and moved again, and again. To New York, to London, to France, to L.A., to China and back again... and again! We had two beautiful children. We were raising them as we were moving and touring and working. He got really successful. We led a celebrity lifestyle. There were record companies, red carpets, managers, pressures of performance, of moving all the time. There were incredible highs - places we got to go, people we got to meet, amazing experiences we had. And then there were devastating lows that challenged us as a couple and as individuals.
And through every step of my journey I wondered to myself… am I alone in these experiences? Who is there who understands this? Who else would ever admit to going through this?! Who has navigated all this before and could share with me? Who can I learn from? Who can I lean on?
At one point, my then husband's management company (under the direction of Elton John and David Furnish) gifted us a life coach. I had tried all sorts of therapy situations for myself and my marriage. While I felt better in the therapist's office, outside I felt there was a disconnect. Talking and getting things off my chest felt good in the moment but I had no actionable tools to move forward in my life.
I discovered when I started working with a life coach my life actually started changing, for the better. I remembered my own strength, who I was and wanted to be in the world. I developed a strong center and the confidence to make some really hard changes that needed to be made. I felt seen and supported - that my coach was there for me to help me action those changes.
After doing my own inner work, I realized coaching made so much sense to me. I was a creative who had lived and worked with other creatives my whole life. In my own career as an actress and dancer and as a wife in the music industry I realized so many of my skills translated to coaching. I was already a fitness and health coach by this time but life coaching finally integrated the practices I used regularly in high stress performance situations. Practices like nervous system regulation, breathwork, meditation and visualisation. Life coaching integrated my knowledge gained in training as a dancer that the body holds so much wisdom in healing life's big and little traumas. These tools I had been using and studying my whole life as a performer, just to be able to get on stage, would be incredibly useful to those going through stressful life changes.
I believe you can't lead anyone down a path you haven't been down yourself. After my own journey I felt called to help others who are starting down their own path of change and self discovery. So I became a coach.