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If you’re a woman living with anxiety, overthinking, and the constant need to control everything just to feel safe, this episode is for you.
Anxiety doesn’t just live in your head — it dictates your choices, your routines, your relationships, and how small your life becomes over time.

In this episode, Sari shares why this is the final episode of The Uncharted Way podcast — and why she’s rebranding into something more direct and honest.

She opens up about how anxiety, fear, and control quietly ran her life for years. From planning exits, needing people available “just in case,” avoiding certain places, and hiding panic attacks, anxiety dictated nearly every decision. On the outside, she looked functional. On the inside, she was overwhelmed, hypervigilant, and disconnected.

Sari explains how anxiety convinces you it’s protecting you, when in reality it slowly steals your freedom, joy, and presence. She reflects on what it’s like to live in survival mode, to organize your entire life around feeling safe, and to eventually reach the point where you’re done letting fear run the show.

This episode isn’t about managing anxiety or forcing calm. It’s about recognizing when fear has been in charge for too long — and what it means to refuse to keep living that way.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How anxiety shows up as control, overthinking, and hypervigilance
• Why anxiety often feels protective while actually shrinking your life
• How fear and control become coping strategies for anxious women
• Why distraction can temporarily calm anxiety in the nervous system
• The difference between managing anxiety and reclaiming authority over your life
• What it means to stop organizing your life around fear

Reflection

Toward the end of the episode, Sari invites you to reflect on how much of your daily life is centered around avoiding anxiety — and what might change if safety didn’t require constant control.

Free Self-Love Challenge

Sari will be taking a short break before launching the newly rebranded podcast, Fuck Anxiety, in mid-March.

During this time, she’s hosting a free 5-day Self-Love Challenge starting February 23rd, focused on slowing down, reconnecting with yourself, and turning compassion inward.

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You’re not broken.
You’re not behind.
And you’re not alone.

If you made it here, that means something.

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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.

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As this year comes to a close, this episode is an invitation to slow down and reflect — not on what you should have done, but on who you’ve been becoming.

In this final solo episode of 2025, Sari reflects on what it means to shed old versions of ourselves, stop pretending we’re fine, and make space for something new. She shares personal stories of moving, turning 40, building community, and learning that miracles don’t arrive when we’re hiding — they arrive when we let ourselves be real.

This isn’t a “new year, new you” episode.
It’s about honesty, courage, and remembering the light that’s still inside you — even if it feels like only a spark right now.

If this year stretched you…
If you’ve been holding more than you’ve shared…
If part of you knows something wants to change in 2026, but you’re not sure how…

This episode meets you right where you are and gently asks:
What if the next chapter begins by letting yourself be seen?

💡 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

• How reflecting on who you were this year can soften shame and bring clarity
• Why miracles don’t come from pretending — they come from honesty
• What it means to release control and stop carrying everything alone
• A powerful metaphor for separating the chaos of the mind from the calm of the heart
• Why courage doesn’t have to be big — sometimes it’s just five seconds
• How looking for the light (instead of answers) can change how you enter the new year
• A gentle, grounding practice to help you reconnect to your inner stillness

✨ Key Takeaway

Miracles don’t come from becoming someone new —
they come from letting go of who you’ve been pretending to be.

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🕯️ Closing Practice (Included in This Episode)

At the end of the episode, Sari guides you through a short, calming reflection to help you connect with the quiet, steady light within you — the part that exists beneath the noise, the fear, and the pressure to perform.

This is a practice you can return to as you move into 2026.

🤍 Support & Next Steps

• Book a Freedom Roadmap Session if you’re ready for support beyond the podcast
• Grab your Free Meditation!!!
• Connect with Sari on Instagram

You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You just need to keep looking for your light.

You made it here — and that means something.

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If you’re feeling like the world handed you a life plan that’s supposed to guarantee happiness, but leaves you anxious, wiped out, or just plain lost...... This episode of The Uncharted Way is for anyone who’s depleted from chasing someone else’s version of success, feeling like a fraud, or suffocating under layers of guilt and shame. You want real change? Let’s get raw about how messy and magnificent that process actually is.

Enter Dana Hunter Fradella, creator of Girls Who Recover, a woman who’s walked through hell and clawed her way back. Dana sits down with Sari to dig into how chasing achievement combined with the soul-sucking spiral of alcoholism nearly destroyed her, and how burning it all down became the best damn thing that ever happened. Think recovery is just about quitting booze? Think again. This is about stripping off every label, expectation, and well-meaning “should” until you remember who you are.

We rip open the truth behind burnout, what it’s like to build a life from ground zero, and why true freedom starts the second you stop pretending. No more shrinking, no fluffy affirmations, just the raw reality, and radiance of finding yourself again.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• How to break free from the achievement trap (seriously, when is “enough” ever enough?)
• The real reason old patterns—like addiction or self-doubt—feel so damn sticky, and what it takes to actually unhook
• Why finding yourself means burning down old identities (even if it gets ugly)
• Ways to reconnect with your heart (hint: it’s louder than your head if you let it speak)
• What shame really looks like—and how sharing your story cracks it open for good
• Power moves for stepping into your truth, taking up space, and living for now, not “later”

✨ Key Takeaway

You get to decide who you are—not your trauma, your titles, or your past—and radical self-trust is how you build a life you actually want to wake up to.

stuck in life • burnout recovery • reinvent yourself • finding yourself • breaking old patterns • shame healing • sobriety journey • living in your truth

📌 Resources & Links

• Dana Hunter Fridella & Girls Who Recover: Website | Instagram
• The Uncharted Way Podcast: Podcast Page
• Sari Cowsert on Instagram: @saricowsert
• Girls Who Recover Podcast: Show Page
• Find out more, get coached, or join a retreat: Contact Here

If you’re sick of hearing advice that feels sugar-coated or disconnected from real struggle—this episode is your permission slip. Dana Hunter Fridella and Sari Cowsert don’t just talk recovery, they live it, scars and all. Listen in if you’re ready to scrap old scripts and finally write your own story, fierce and free.

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You know that feeling, your palms are sweaty, you breathe a little heavier or uneven. Your chest tightens. Your thoughts race. You already “know” how the situation is going to end — and it’s not good.

In this episode, Sari shares a simple, four-step awareness tool she uses daily — with herself, her family, and her clients — to interrupt those moments before they turn into spirals, shutdowns, or even self-blame.

This isn’t about positive thinking or talking yourself out of your feelings.
It’s about learning how to notice what’s happening in your body, understand what triggered it, question the story your mind is telling, and bring in a wiser version of yourself to shift the outcome, so that you can reclaim your power back!

If you’ve ever reacted before thinking…
Assumed the worst before asking for help…
Or replayed the same situation over and over in your head…

This episode will give you a way to slow it all down — and choose something different.

By the end, you’ll understand why fear narrows your perspective, how assumptions quietly run your life, and how to use awareness to break the cycle in real time.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why awareness is a muscle — and how to build it without doing it “perfectly”
• How to recognize discomfort in your body before your thoughts take over
• The difference between what actually happened and the story you’re telling about it
• Why fear always assumes an outcome — and how to challenge it
• How ruminating thoughts follow the same pattern as external triggers
• A simple way to bring in a calmer, wiser version of yourself when you’re activated
• How to use this tool with anxiety, conflict, overthinking, or emotional shutdown

✨ Key Takeaway

You don’t need to get rid of fear — you need to stop letting it be the loudest voice in the room.

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🧠 Try This After Listening

The next time you feel your body contract, pause and ask:

1. What am I feeling in my body right now?
2. What just triggered this?
3. What story am I assuming is true?
4. What would the wisest version of me say about this?

Even noticing the first step is enough to start changing the pattern.

🤍 Support & Resources

• Book a Freedom Roadmap Session to personalize this tool for your life
• Connect with Sari on Instagram
• Grab your FREE Meditation Here!!!

You didn’t get here by accident.
And the fact that you’re learning to pause instead of react means something is already shifting.
Keep showing up.

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In this firecracker convo, I bring on Dr. Melissa Weiss and Dr. Jeanette Auchter — two women who have lived the chaos, the loss, and the chronic pain and decided to do things differently. These two functional medicine docs (and hosts of the Gut Feelings, Life Unfiltered podcast) get surgical about chronic health, what "healing" actually means, and why you’re the MVP of your own comeback story.

This episode isn’t just about throwing supplements or manifesting your way out of pain. We get real about nervous system healing, survivor wisdom, ancestral baggage, and what it means to build your own healing team — even if it means stepping outside the old system and investing in yourself in ways that feel scary or wild. If you feel burned out and unseen, it’s time to listen up.

💡 What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why addressing the root cause matters way more than just chasing symptoms or popping supplements
• Hard truths about “the team approach” to healing, and why you get to choose who’s on your squad
• How nervous system regulation (heart rate variability, breathwork, meditation) is the foundation for recovery — not just an "add-on"
• The hidden cost of being a chronic caretaker, perfectionist, or people-pleaser — and how to start releasing what isn’t yours
• Real talk about breaking the generational cycles of stress, trauma, and stuffing down your truth
• What it means to actually RECEIVE help, own your goddess energy, and let your story change your life (and maybe the world)

✨ Key Takeaway

You are the only one who can heal you — but you do not have to do it alone, and you deserve a healing team that sees all of you.

burnout recovery • finding yourself • functional medicine healing • breaking old patterns • nervous system regulation • building your team • trauma recovery • stop people-pleasing

📌 Resources & Links

• Gut Feelings, Life Unfiltered Podcast
• The Uncharted Way podcast page
• Sari Cowsert Instagram
• Connect with Dr. Jeanette Auchter
• Connect with Dr. Melissa Weiss
• Grab Your Free Meditation

If you’re ready to stop nodding along in the doctor’s office, pretending you’re “fine,” and actually build a life that feels like yours — hit play. Come get the raw, loving truth your soul’s been craving.