This Miraculous Life

This episode Chris Price and Omari Francis continue the conversation with Sara on overcoming childhood trauma. We delve deeper into how to overcome past trauma in order to create a thriving, happy adulthood. Specifically this show reveals how to develop a practice of self love; it’s both easier and harder than you think. You will also learn how and why you must integrate accepting the opinions of others into your cultivation of self love. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Today Sara is joined by special guests Omari Francis and Chris Price: hosts of The Window Seat Podcast. Together with Omari and Chris, Sara discusses the reality of childhood trauma and how it often seems hopeless to recover to achieve a happy, thriving adulthood after such negative experiences. Omari shares his own story and the steps that have helped him to grow into a happy and healthy adult in spite of childhood abuse and upheaval. Tune in to learn the steps for grappling with, and ultimately liberating yourself from the shame of past trauma. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

The science of positive psychology gives us clear data on the positive to negative emotional ratios that are necessary for a human being to report that they are thriving, and also the positive to negative emotional ratios that are necessary in order for humans to report that their relationship is thriving. And guess what? There is a huge difference between those two ratios. This data can help us understand why we struggle so much to achieve satisfying relationships. It also holds within it the keys to overcoming those limitations and creating truly flourishing romantic partnerships. Listen to learn the data and the solutions it holds to helping us build the type of relationships we all crave. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Research psychologist Barbara Fredrickson discovered that in order to thrive human beings require about three positive emotional experiences for every one negative emotional experience. Sara teaches us how to apply this data in order to tap into the 3:1 ratio for ourselves. This episode gives specific tools for increasing your positives, and diminishing the unnecessary negatives! Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

Naturally, our brains our wired to focus more heavily on the negative. We are more sensitive and attuned to what goes poorly than what goes well. While this bias may help us to survive, it severely inhibits our ability to thrive and feel happy. Today Sara teaches how to overcome the negativity bias with positive mental prompts. These prompts are a necessary tool for all who want to go beyond merely functional to live joyous, flourishing lives. Powered and distributed by Simplecast.

A breakup is almost never easy and nearly always painful. And yet it is such a consistent part of the human experience. Often we find ourselves stuck in a cycle of pain or regret post breakup. Or pressuring ourselves to find someone new as “proof” that we made the right choice. Today Washington, DC psychotherapist Anne Howard joins Sara to help us understand that a breakup is a genuine grief and how to navigate it healthily without avoiding our pain or getting suck in unhealthy patterns. This episode is essential for all who may need to navigate a breakup, but also for their friends and family to help understand what type of support is actually helpful! Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Whether directly or indirectly, pretty much every life has been touched by a divorce. Today Sara is joined by local psychotherapist and coach, Robin Tucker, to talk about divorce. This episode answers everything from how to know if it’s time to get divorced, how to protect your children during a divorce, and even how to navigate dating someone who is divorced. The bottom line: no one hopes for a divorce, but if divorce becomes part of your life there is a right and a wrong way to do it. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Faith Hunter (international yoga and meditation instructor, influencer, authentic soul, and African American woman) joins This Miraculous Life to discuss how she created herself a life for which she had no blueprint. We learn from Faith how becoming hugely successful may, in fact, be about focusing our energy on everything but the ultimate success. We also learn today about the role of privilege and representation - yet how to create whatever your heart desires whether your level of privilege and representation is a whole lot, or almost none. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

This episode Sara responds to a letter asking: how can I be less distracted by anxieties and thoughts about the past and future? Sara is joined by life coach and “presencing” expert Brian Piergrossi (www.Brianpiergrossi.com), author of The Big Glow & The Wow Of The Now, who teaches us that everything within the human experience is, indeed, happening in the present. And with that, he guides us on how to maximize our ability to savor the present moment and detach from our distracting thoughts. You will learn exercises, such as moving meditation, for becoming more present but also - Brian offers key questions we can use to prompt our brain to snap into the present! Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Today we learn a happiness lifehack: how to make space for the necessary negative emotions of navigating life’s ups and downs and how to distinguish those from the unnecessary negativity that will rob us of our potential for a happy life. Which is which? And how do we avoid the other? Tune in to find out! P.s. don’t forget to send us your own life questions at [email protected]. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Last episode we learned why the science of optimism matters in the face of difficulties and setbacks. This week we learn why it is also, and perhaps equally, relevant when things are going WELL. Sara teaches how optimistic thinking in the face of good things can enhance our overall life as well as our future outcomes. And most importantly, she teaches how to prompt our brain to think optimistically about good things. Bonus: Sara’s argument for why optimism is neither hypocritical nor unrealistic. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

Today Sara delves into the science behind optimistic thinking and its power to prevent us from feeling stuck and helpless in our own lives. Together with Studio Engineer, Alexya Brown, Sara breaks down how all of us can prompt our brain to think more optimistically in the face of disappointing experiences. This episode clarifies why optimism is an essential tool, not just a fun personality trait, and specific strategies to make that tool accessible to anyone - including you. Powered and distributed by Simplecast

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Today Sara is joined by psychologist Dr. Rebekah Montgomery - expert on attachment style. Attachment styles describe how we approach our closest, most intimate relationships: whether we feel comfortable and confident in them, whether we require constant reassurance, whether we prefer to keep people at arms length - or all of the above. Tune in to learn the hallmarks of each attachment style so that you can identity our own. And then delve into how attachment style can be actively worked on to become more secure - the attachment style that is ultimately most adaptive and healthy!

The words “resources” and “money” are used interchangeably. This is a mistake. There are far more resources at our disposal than just money. Money is one resource, but it is far from the only one. In this show Sara breaks down her belief that money is not the only valuable resource and shares how to shift your thinking about resources. Finally Sara illuminates why this new resourceful belief is an essential ingredient to your overall liberation.