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In this episode, Sarah takes you on a journey to the Wye Valley Forest for her annual digital detox and shares the science behind how light — both natural and artificial — impacts your hormone health. She explores the connection between circadian rhythms, serotonin, melatonin, and cortisol, and offers gentle, practical ways to reduce screen time and protect your nervous system as the seasons shift.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• How light regulates your hormones — the role of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and photoreceptor cells in your brain's hypothalamus
• The rainbow of natural light — how morning blue light triggers cortisol and evening red/orange light signals melatonin for sleep
• Why artificial light disrupts your endocrine system — how phone and screen use after sunset confuses your body's natural sleep signals
• Circadian vs. infradian rhythms — the 24-hour body clock and the longer menstrual cycle, and why both matter for women
• Seasonal living and Ayurveda — how autumn invites us to slow down, let go, and prepare the body for winter rest
• Practical digital detox tips — morning light exposure, evening phone boundaries, and the power of replacement therapy over willpower
• The cost of constant information intake — how sensory overload affects digestion, sleep, and your nervous system
• Sarah's forest retreat — what a real digital detox weekend looks like in the Wye Valley

Plus, Sarah shares details about her in-person retreats in Kent (Held) and her 12-session online somatic coaching programme (Feeling Wholeness), with two spaces available for the rest of the year.

Contact Sarah: balancedbodywellnessuk@gmail.com or check the show notes for links.

Held at the Healing Scene https://www.balancedbodywellnessuk.com/held

Somatic Coaching https://www.balancedbodywellnessuk.com/feeling-wholeness

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In this episode, Sarah, a somatic and trauma-informed guide, explores the Libra New Moon through the lens of justice, reciprocity, relationships, and coming back to your own needs. The episode blends astrology, nervous system science, and somatic awareness to invite women to reflect on where they may be keeping the peace at the expense of their own wellbeing.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Libra New Moon portal** — its themes of balance, justice, harmony, beauty, and relationships, and why new moons are a time to go inward and consciously create from your values rather than your head
• Keeping the peace at your own expense** — an inquiry into where women maintain harmony by abandoning themselves, and the cost of overgiving, people-pleasing, and chronic self-sacrifice
• - The scales of justice in everyday life — whose needs are being weighed, who carries the emotional labor, and what we call "fair" that might actually be costing someone far too much
• Reciprocity vs. permanent imbalance — the difference between a temporary, navigated imbalance in a relationship and a one-sided arrangement where one person is expected to give endlessly
• Trauma-informed understanding of overgiving — how patterns like people-pleasing, hyper-independence, and over-explaining develop as survival adaptations, and why they're approached with compassion rather than shame
• The body as a guide— somatic prompts for noticing what happens in your body when you imagine saying no, and practical tools like pausing before answering and practicing "Let me think about that and get back to you"
• Systems thinking and women's wellbeing — how societal expectations reward women's self-sacrifice while undervaluing it, and why burnout shouldn't be framed as an individual failing
• Nervous system regulation vs. tolerating injustice — why regulation isn't about staying calm while your needs are dismissed, and how anger, grief, and resentment carry important signals
• What healthy relating actually looks like — rethinking harmony as not the absence of conflict but the capacity to disagree, repair after rupture, and negotiate agreements that respect both people
• Safety, boundaries, and community** — recognizing when a relationship isn't safe enough for vulnerability, the importance of specialist support, and how women's circles and community can help shift long-held patterns
• Closing inquiries and next steps— reflective questions to sit with, plus an invitation to the New Moon Circle on October 9th and the relaunch of The Healing Portal membership through Balanced Body Wellness

Join Sarah to explore these themes through your body and nervous system repair.

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In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, Sarah explores the Red Tent — the ancient longing for women to gather, rest, and be witnessed at the thresholds of their lives.

She traces the history of women's circles from Anita Diamant's novel to the moon lodges of Indigenous traditions, the gossips of medieval England, the keeners of Ireland, and the witch trials that fractured women's communities.

Along the way, she unpacks the witch wound and sister wound — the inherited fears that keep women small, silent, and isolated — and shares her own journey of rejecting her cyclical nature in favour of a linear, machine-like routine.

This is an invitation to slow down, reconnect with your body's rhythms, and consider whether a circle of support might be what your nervous system has been asking for. Whether you're curious about moon circles, navigating perimenopause, healing from trauma, or simply aching for something you can't quite name, this episode meets you where you are.

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In this episode of the Holistic Health Sisters podcast, Sarah explores the Aries Full Moon through a trauma-informed lens, weaving together astrology, somatic healing, and ancient Ayurvedic wisdom. With the autumn equinox freshly behind us, this lunation arrives as a three-day window of fire in the midst of vata season — a powerful opportunity to release what has come to a head, shed old survival stories, and return to self-trust.

In this Episode Sarah Explores:

- How trauma destroys trust in the self, the body, and relationships — and the ongoing journey of coming back into trust

- The Aries Full Moon as a mirror: reflecting back to the spring equinox new moon and the six-month cycle of seeding, harvest, and surrender

- Aries ruling the head, face, and jaw — and somatic practices to release tension stored in the jaw, lips, and tongue

- The recently completed Voice & Womb Activation series: exploring the physical, emotional, and spiritual connection between the throat and the womb

- Ayurvedic wisdom for autumn — vata season, ojas (inner reserves), and why the dark half of the year is the time to replenish energy

- The cleansing fire of Aries: how it can alchemize ancestral anger, inherited fear, and patterns absorbed before our first breath

- Releasing survival stories — the beliefs that say you're too much, not enough, must shrink, or must fight to exist

- Mars energy and the inner battle: noticing where you fight yourself versus where you bring love to your inner conversations

- Practical full moon rituals — lighting a candle to honor your divine spark, writing and burning a release list, and moving somatically to let energy clear

- Creating space now so that at the upcoming Libra new moon, you can realign with your values, set conscious intentions, and step into your life purpose

Sarah also shares details about the somatic healing circles (donation-based and open to all), the membership inside The Healing Portal, and the new conscious platform Join the Portal. Whether you join live or listen later, this episode is an invitation to sit with what's simmering, trust your body, and remember that you're already whole.

Join The Portal https://community.jointheportal.com/

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Autumn asks us to release — and grief is one of the most sacred forms of letting go.

In this episode, Sarah explores grief not just as loss, but as a portal to healing — and why the autumn season is uniquely suited to processing it. As the natural world sheds its leaves and turns inward, we're given a living metaphor and a real opportunity to meet our own grief with more grace.

Sarah walks through the Five Gates of Grief, weaves in cultural grief practices from around the world, and looks at how Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda both understand autumn as a season of release, lungs, letting go and turning inward. She also speaks to grief as something we don't just think our way through — but something we feel and move through the body.

This episode is an invitation to stop pushing grief aside and instead let this season hold you as you process it.

In this episode, you'll discover:

🍂 Why autumn is a season that supports grief processing on a physical, energetic and cultural level
- The Five Gates of Grief and what each one reveals about how we lose and how we heal
- Cultural grief practices and rituals from around the world, and what we've lost by moving away from them
- The Traditional Chinese Medicine view of autumn, the lungs and letting go
- The Ayurvedic perspective on autumn as a season of transition and release
- Why grief is somatic — and how to begin processing it in the body, not just the mind
- Why grief doesn't need to be fixed, rushed or explained — only witnessed
- How to let this season support you in releasing what you've been holding

Grief is not a problem to solve. It's a portal — and autumn is holding the door open.

If you're moving through grief and want deeper, embodied support, Sarah invites you to join The Healing Portal — her membership community for women, where she works as a trauma-informed somatic coach guiding holistic healing practices for grief, nervous system regulation and seasonal living.

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NEW MOON IN VIRGO 🌑 | Coming Home to Your Body, Your Rhythm & What Truly Matters

The Virgo New Moon invites us to pause, simplify and come back to what is essential.

But rather than turning this energy into another opportunity to optimise ourselves, fix ourselves or create a never-ending list of things we should be doing, in this episode we explore Virgo through a trauma-informed, nervous-system-aware lens.

What if healing isn't about becoming a better version of yourself?

What if it’s about creating enough safety in your body to hear what you actually need?

In this episode, we explore the wisdom of Virgo season, the themes of discernment, digestion, daily rituals, boundaries and embodiment — and how these can support us to create lives that are nourishing rather than simply productive.

We’ll look at:

🌿 The energy of the Virgo New Moon and what it is inviting us to reset
🌿 The difference between healthy discernment and perfectionism
🌿 Why “self-improvement” can sometimes become another form of self-abandonment
🌿 The connection between the nervous system, routine and a sense of safety
🌿 Ayurveda and Virgo season — including digestion, rhythm and the importance of simple daily practices
🌿 Moving away from “I should” and towards “what does my body actually need?”
🌿 How to create supportive rituals without turning them into rigid rules
🌿 Coming back to the body, the present moment and what truly matters

This is an invitation to slow down, listen inward and tend to yourself with compassion rather than correction.

You don't need to fix yourself.

You don't need to optimise your life.

You might simply need to listen.

✨ NEW MOON CIRCLE

If this episode resonates, come and join me for our next online New Moon Circle — a space to pause, regulate, reflect and consciously set intentions for the cycle ahead.

We'll weave together intention setting, nervous system regulation, seasonal health wisdom, meditation, breathwork and a sharing circle.

Friday 11th September | 7.30pm UK time

You can join as a one-off New Moon Circle or explore the deeper support available inside The Healing Portal membership.

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