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If anxiety has been running the show and you feel exhausted from trying to control every outcome, you’re not alone.

Many women live with anxiety not because something is “wrong” with them—but because they’re stuck in control mode.

In this episode, Sari explores how anxiety, fear, and control are often signals that something in your life wants to change. Instead of trying to fix anxiety or push through it, this conversation invites women to slow down, listen, and notice what keeps showing up beneath the noise, and begin to learn how listening can change everything.

Through real-life stories about career shifts, fear of being seen, scattered energy, and learning to trust again, Sari shares how meditation and nervous system awareness helped her stop forcing life—and start following what actually felt aligned.

If you’re a woman feeling anxious, overwhelmed, stuck in overthinking, or unsure where to put your energy, this episode offers a new way to understand anxiety—not as the enemy, but as information.

💡 What Women Will Learn in This Episode

• Why anxiety in women is often rooted in control and fear—not failure
• How forcing outcomes creates more stress, overwhelm, and disconnection
• The difference between discomfort and danger in the body
• How meditation helps calm anxiety and create clarity
• How to recognize when fear is blocking your next step
• Why staying “safe” and predictable can quietly keep you stuck
• How to begin trusting yourself again without having it all figured out

🧠 Reflection Questions

• Where am I forcing instead of listening?
• What keeps triggering my anxiety right now?
• What am I afraid will happen if I stop controlling everything?
• What feels uncomfortable—but not actually unsafe?
• What would change if I trusted myself more than my fear?

🌿 A New Way to Look at Anxiety

Anxiety doesn’t always mean something is wrong.
Sometimes it means something is trying to get your attention.

For many women, anxiety is the body’s way of saying:

And when fear stops running the show, clarity and creativity can return.

🤍 Support for Women Ready to Feel Different

If anxiety, control, or fear have been dictating your choices—and you’re ready for support navigating what’s next—Sari works with women one-on-one to calm the nervous system, build self-trust, and create real change.

✨ Book a Freedom Roadmap Session (linked in show notes)
✨ Join the Newsletter for weekly reflections on anxiety, growth, and clarity
✨ Explore meditation as a tool, not a rule

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One comment. One comparison. One moment that quietly changes how you see yourself.

In this raw solo episode, Sari opens up about a heartbreaking conversation with her 13-year-old daughter — and how body shame doesn’t usually start with self-hate… it starts with trying to belong. Skipping meals. Comparing bodies. Believing your body needs fixing before you’re allowed to feel confident, loved, or enough.

Sari weaves her own story — growing up as a dancer, being told her body wasn’t “right,” chasing impossible standards — and how those moments didn’t just hurt… they fueled years of anxiety, control, and never feeling at home in her own skin.

This episode isn’t about pretending to love your body.
It’s about ending the war with it — and reclaiming your peace.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How body shame quietly fuels anxiety, overthinking, and chronic self-criticism
• Why comparison gets wired into us early — and how to begin unlearning it
• The connection between food, control, and the need to feel “enough”
• How cultural beauty standards shape anxiety without us realizing it
• What it actually means to feel safe and at home in your body again
• How to stop fixing yourself and start listening instead

✨ Key Takeaway

Your body is not the problem.
The story you were taught about it is.

When you stop fighting your body, your nervous system softens — and life opens back up.

🎧 Support Inside This Episode

• A grounding reflection to help you notice where body shame first took root
• Honest questions to help you interrupt old patterns of comparison and control

🌱 Resources & Next Steps

• Free Meditation: New Year, New You — a guided practice to calm your nervous system and reconnect with your body Click Here!
• Freedom Roadmap Session: A free, one-on-one conversation to explore what’s keeping you stuck and how to move toward feeling confident, grounded, and alive again Click Here!

body shame healing • anxiety and body image • self-worth • food anxiety • comparison trap • feeling at home in your body • healing anxiety • breaking old patterns • nervous system support

Final Note

If body shame has shaped your anxiety, your relationship with food, or how you see yourself — you are not broken, and you are not alone.

Are you willing to fight for your right to feel fucking amazing…
or are you going to keep allowing the suffering?

There is another way — and you don’t have to walk it alone.

You made it here, and that means something.

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Have you ever had the quiet, terrifying thought:
“I can’t keep living like this.”

Not because your life looks bad on the outside —
but because inside, you wake up every day with the same thoughts, the same reactions, the same heaviness.

You look in the mirror and don’t really love who you see anymore.
You go to work and feel drained or resentful, but the fear of changing anything keeps you frozen.
You replay the conversation you want to have — with your partner, your boss, your friend — over and over in your head… but never actually say it.

In the first solo episode of 2026, Sari gets radically honest about what it means to leave an old identity behind — the one built on survival, fear, control, and familiarity — and choose something different, even when you don’t know where it leads.

This episode isn’t about resolutions, manifesting, or having a perfect plan.
It’s about recognizing the moment when staying the same feels more painful than change.

Through a powerful train-track metaphor, real-life examples, and a guided visualization, Sari invites you to ask the question most people avoid:

What if the life you’re living isn’t the one you’re meant to stay on?

If you feel stuck in patterns you don’t know how to break…
If fear has kept you choosing familiarity over fulfillment…
If part of you knows there’s more, but you don’t know how to reach it…

This episode might be the moment you decide to stop abandoning yourself.

💡 What You’ll Hear in This Episode (unchanged, already strong)

• Why nothing changes if you keep reacting the same way every day
• How expectations quietly limit your life without you realizing it
• The difference between staying “safe” and actually being alive
• Why you don’t need clarity — you need courage
• How leaving an old identity can feel terrifying and freeing
• What it means to be a seeker when you don’t know what’s next
• A guided visualization to help you step off the old track and consider a new one
• Why even a 1% shift can lead you to a completely different life

✨ Key Takeaway

You don’t need to know where the new path leads.
You just need to stop choosing the one that’s been keeping you small.

feeling stuck in life • fear of change • hate my job but scared to leave • anxiety and identity • living on autopilot • overthinking conversations • paralyzed by fear • breaking old patterns • personal growth podcast • choosing yourself • anxiety recovery

🧭 Included in This Episode

At the end of the episode, Sari guides you through a short visualization to help you:

• identify the version of yourself that’s been surviving
• imagine what stepping onto a new path could feel like
• choose one small, brave step without overwhelming yourself

🎁 Free Resource

Sari has created a free meditation: “New Year, New You” to help you connect with the version of yourself that’s ready to choose differently.

Click Here to Download Meditation

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You don’t have to change your whole life today.
You just have to stop pretending this one is enough.

You made it here — and that means something.