Hi, I'm Sarah

Since 2005, I've been on a journey of returning to self. A journey of re-discovering who I am, without all the masks I've put on and the roles I've taken on or been given.

It's a journey that started at the top of the Sears Tower in Chicago when I was burnt out and deeply unhappy in my investment banking job in New York. I sat there on the floor of the observation deck for 3 hours, listening to music on my pink iPod and watching the planes create jet streams across the sky. In this moment, I knew that something inside wasn't right. Something was out of alignment. I didn't quite know how to name it, but I knew I had to leave New York, and mostly, I had to leave finance.

It took me another 5 months to get out, and from there I booked a 1-way ticket to Buenos Aires, not sure where I was headed or what I would do, but confident in my choice to wander, and to wonder.

My travels took me to Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador and Kenya. And inside, took me to a place of deep inner freedom and the joy of choice and exploration.

I then settled in Switzerland with my then boyfriend and went on to get married and have 3 kids. Adding 2 more roles to my life: wife, and mother.

It was only in my marriage ending that I was gifted the opportunity of knowing what life without these 2 labels is like. In the pain of a marriage ending, and not only a marriage, also the dream of the ideal, the dream of a family as we imagine it to be, I also uncovered the unexpected joy of time to myself without my children. Time as just me. Time to really delve into who I am without these two very heavy labels attached to me.

It was at about this time that the pandemic hit, and for that I am grateful. A time of introspection and clearing out of what was no longer relevant or aligned with my life.

Peru, spirituality

I then discovered Nonviolent Communication