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43. STEPPING INTO YOUR HIGHEST POTENTIAL WITH SARAH CONNOLLY; MEDICINE WOMAN & ENERGY TRANSMUTATION EXPERT!
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Sarah Connolly is a Certified Addictions and Trauma Recovery Coach, Breathwork Facilitator, Sound Alchemist, and Energy Transmutation Expert. She bridges the gap between the medicinal and the mystic and bases her work on the foundation of Shamanic teachings and ancient, holistic-based practices.
Sarah combines her love for science, spirituality, music and human optimization to cultivate guided experiences and teachings that are meticulously curated to help you tap into your truest essence of self, transmute your pain into power, and unlock the codes of your unlimited potential.
Sarah is passionate about helping others remember their divine gifts, reclaim their power and live a life of deep presence, profound purpose and infinite abundance in all facets of being.
You can reach Sarah at
https://linktr.ee/Sarahjconnolly
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Transcript
Emotional Impact of Sarah Connolly's Story
00:00:00
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Welcome back to Unlocking with Adam Pike. Today was a really good episode and it was speaking to me on many different levels. I have never had anybody come on this podcast and make me cry. Not once, but twice. Yes, Sarah Connolly came on here today and had me have tears in my eyes on two separate occasions. This was honestly a really great episode. I cannot wait to listen to it back and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
00:00:26
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If you listen to my last episode with Fallon, Fallon was actually talking about Sarah on that podcast. So I thought this would be a really great follow up episode to bring Sarah on and have her share her whole story. And her story is honestly mind blowing. I had cold shivers. I was crying. I was laughing. I can't wait for you to hear this. I will have all of Sarah's links in the description below where you can find her.
00:00:52
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Hope you guys enjoy. Let's dive in. Sarah, what's up? How you doing? Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much, Adam. It is an honor to be here. Thank you for having me. Honestly, I'm, uh, I'm happy to have you on here. So anyone who listened to my last episode with Fallon, uh, Fallon was actually talking about Sarah. So I thought this would be like a really good follow up episode to have you on and kind of share your
Sarah's Work and Personal Journey
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story. And I got, we got a lot to talk about, I think.
00:01:20
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Yeah, absolutely. And thank you so much, first and foremost, for you creating that platform for Fallon to share her story. I know hers is a powerful one as well. And I just feel very blessed that she was able to share her experiences in my ceremonies and very honored that my name came up in that episode.
00:01:37
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Yeah, she talks very highly of you and it's just it's so wild how like we all get connected like just over ever since I've gotten to this field of work of like just plant medicine and stuff like that. I've just met so many amazing people through social media, right? And I feel like if I never got into this, I just know I've never I wouldn't be sitting here doing a podcast with you today or Fallon last week, you know, it's it's it's amazing. It really is.
00:02:04
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Yeah, it truly is. I feel the same ever since this work came into my life and I shifted trajectory of my path. It's just opened up so many doors for so many beautiful connections and I feel extremely grateful to be where I am.
00:02:21
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Well, you mentioned it. I'm kind of curious about your story and how you even got into this field of work of helping people through ceremonies and plant medicine. You do sound bowl healing and stuff as well? Absolutely. Yeah, I do sound healing, breath work, plant medicine. And then I am also a mentorship guide. And so my program is called Reclamation of Soul. And so that looks very different for every individual that I get to work with.
00:02:50
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My training background in this work specifically is also with trauma and addictions recovery, and that was something as I started to traverse down this path, I just really felt the need to understand to a greater depth.
00:03:05
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how trauma and addiction unfold in the psyche and in the body, and how that manifests and how that shows up physically, mentally, emotionally, so that I really had a baseline understanding of being able to help people who had experienced things that I had not experienced.
Critique of 'Trauma-Informed' Label
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Because I think, unfortunately, in the whole realm of life coaching, if you wanna call it that,
00:03:27
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A lot of people slap this label as trauma-informed onto their work when I do believe it's very much so from a good intent, from a heart-centered space, but more so from the sense that, oh, I'm trauma-informed because I've endured trauma.
00:03:44
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And that is not the definition of trauma informed, right? Like trauma is so vast and so in depth. And so yeah, that's a little, a little bit about where I have ended up basically. Yeah. Yeah. So how long have you been doing this?
00:03:59
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So it's 2024 now. So it's been about three years now, a little bit more since I left my former career and life entirely, basically it honestly sitting here reflecting on it, it feels like a different lifetime.
Transition from Healthcare to Holistic Health
00:04:17
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So I need to know what, what, what did you do before this? So I was actually an ultrasound tech. No way.
00:04:24
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Yeah so I worked for five and a half years in private clinics and in the hospital and that all came about because rewinding back to my childhood I lost 13 people in an 11 year period of my life and in that time I witnessed both addiction and chronic disease. Most of those losses were cancer
00:04:50
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the aftermath of addiction and suicide. And so growing up, I really had both the blessing and the curse of navigating grief, death and dying myself and witnessing loved ones doing the same. And I also from a very young age started to really question
00:05:10
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the healthcare system as a whole, like why was it failing so many people, right? And now where I stand, I definitely believe that we are all living a divinely orchestrated path. So I do believe that our souls come into this realm and leave this realm exactly when and how they're meant to. But in the unfolding of my early teenage and late teenage years, I knew without a doubt in my mind that I wanted to help people.
00:05:38
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But because of how society is orchestrated and because of what we learn in school, I really felt like the only way for me to do that was to go down the route of healthcare and to become a doctor. And so I went into university with the intention of going to med school. And then I got three and a half years into my Bachelor of Science degree. I was studying medical microbiology and doing all my pre-med requirements.
00:06:07
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And at that point I was like, man, I don't see myself just being a general practitioner, sitting in office, seeing people with stuffy noses and sore throats. And at the time there was also a lot going on within myself. I was having a lot of gut issues. I was so anxious and really just distracted myself with busyness. And as a university student, it was very easy to do that, right? So I was just on the go 24 seven. So,
00:06:35
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Fast forward a little bit from that, then ultrasound kind of came into my field of view, ultrasound, x-ray, CT, all those kind of diagnostic imaging modalities. And I thought, oh, this could be something I feel I'd be more interested in because the main pull for me with ultrasound was the fact that I actually got to spend time with patients. It's not like going into a walking clinic or to your doctor and they're basically like, all right, like how fast can I get you out of this office, which I feel is
00:07:03
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pretty common nowadays, starting to make a bit of a shift. But with ultrasound, I was able to spend at least 30 minutes with every single patient while also being
00:07:15
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an integral part of the diagnostic process. So I still got to talk to the doctors and the radiologists. And so I went down that route and I did really love it for a time. And really what happened there was as I worked in the clinic and then shifted to the hospital, I really started to just see to a much greater degree how the system is failing us.
00:07:38
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And what I mean by that is I never ever ever ever witnessed a situation where a patient came in with X physical symptom and there was any sort of inquiry as to what their stress levels were like.
00:07:56
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what their relationships were like, what their diet was like, what their sleep was like. It was basically like, okay, so they're presenting with this system, you found this on the ultrasound, we're going to send them for this surgery, or we're going to give them this prescription. And as I was able to be spending that amount of time with each patient,
00:08:18
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And I was doing my own research at this time for my own healing in relation to holistic health, in relation to the chakras, in relation to energy. And I started to piece things together. So for example, women who came in presenting with irregular menstruation or miscarriages or ovarian cysts, ovarian tumors, these people would open up to me and I started to piece together, oh wow, all of these,
00:08:44
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uterine ovarian issues are very prevalent in women who have a history of sexual abuse. And then breast cancer, something I saw a lot of as well. That's a heart chakra related physical aspect of the body. And what happens with that is a lot of these individuals would start to open up to me about their past. And it was very clear that there was unresolved grief and rage.
00:09:08
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And that's a big heart chakra thing. So we're seeing the physical manifestation of something that's actually deeply intertwined with repressed emotion and trauma. And this, I mean, I could go on for days about all of these little pieces that I was putting together. And I started to just get so wildly frustrated at how often the solution was like, oh, well, we're just going to take out your gallbladder. Oh, well, we're just going to give you some, some chemicals and an IV and then cut off your breasts. Oh, well, we're just going to do this.
00:09:39
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That's certainly not to say that again, the intention I do think in most cases is good, is that they want to help people. But the problem, the underlying problem is that the system as a whole is designed to keep people sick. Health care as a whole is a business. And it just started to get so much more obvious to me that that was the reality. And then fast forward to the pandemic.
00:10:08
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And I witnessed a level of disregard and disrespect to people's personal health choices, like nothing I have ever seen in my life and nothing I could even fathom. I watched as doctors who had signed an oath of do no harm would quite literally disregard patient care.
00:10:32
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because of a health choice that somebody had made. And to me, again, it just did not make logical sense because never, ever, ever before, if somebody came in, for example, with a drug overdose, we as healthcare practitioners, we don't get to say, oh, well, I don't agree with drug use, so you're not going to get treated. And
00:10:55
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That ended up being the cosmic two by four to the head that I needed to not only literally boot me out of the industry, because I made a personal health choice for my body that was then not accepted for me as a healthcare worker. And I was put on an unpaid leave of absence. That was September of 2020, I believe. Gosh, it did like years. Don't even, I can't remember the timeline, 2020, I believe. Yeah, September of 2020.
00:11:23
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And so then Canada, I live in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. So then Canada announced that they were closing the border to us individuals who had made that personal health choice. And at that point, it was this all consuming knowing in my body that this was the universe saying, okay, this timeline for you is done.
00:11:44
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You came into healthcare to learn these things, to actually go down the medical route, to learn all of the scientific based things. And now is your time to actually go fulfill your Dharma and go follow your soul path.
Spiritual Awakening and Career Change
00:11:57
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And so in a span of two weeks, less than that, actually, I think I sold everything I owned. I gave my landlord less than once notice. And I just said, here's rent. Thanks for the time. I'm out of here.
00:12:11
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And I shipped my car to Las Vegas because that was the cheapest place for me to ship my car to. And I flew into Las Vegas and picked up my car and from there I spent six months in the United States traveling solo.
00:12:26
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literally spending days just walking through the desert without cell phone service. I spent a week in Death Valley, a week in Valley of Fire, and just meeting people and talking to people too. I would go sit in cafes and I would eavesdrop on conversations because this was like the topic, the hot topic at the time, right? And I would talk to doctors and healthcare practitioners down there and it just
00:12:48
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started to really become obvious as well that there were people down there that were living an entirely different reality than what we had been told in Canada. And so again, it was just all these little pieces of the puzzle that really started to show me that, okay, I'm walking the right path now. And as I do believe happens when we are following the call of our soul, the universe supports you in every way imaginable. So then
00:13:13
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I started making these beautiful connections with people. I was using an app called Couchsurfer, which allows you to stay with hosts around the world. If you're a traveler, I honestly highly recommend you download it because this is the biggest gift I ever received in the past few years. And it enabled me to really just start to connect with like-minded souls. And then from there, interestingly enough, a woman that I had followed for quite some time, her name is Anahata Ananda.
00:13:40
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She is a shamanic and holistic energy worker, breathwork facilitator, and honestly, I mean, to really describe who she is, she's a channel, she's a conduit, she's a true magician, medicine woman, she's all the things. And I had followed her for years through finding her on a podcast with Mark Groves, and that serendipitous piece comes in in a later aspect in this journey.
00:14:04
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She popped up in my Instagram one day when I was scrolling and this training popped up saying that she was facilitating an in-person shamanic healing modalities ancient wisdom energy practices and breath work facilitator training
00:14:18
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in person at her home in Sedona, Arizona. She accepts 10 to 12 people per year. And I don't know what it was about it. Well, I mean, I do know it was something that was in alignment with my soul, right? But in that moment, I just knew I had to apply. And I applied and less than 48 hours later, I was accepted. And so February of
00:14:40
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no, January of 2021. Now I guess that would be I went to Sedona, not knowing anybody who is going to be in this group, ironically, ending up meeting another girl from Canada who actually knew my former life coach, like all of these insane pieces just started coming together. And I spent two and a half weeks of 9am to 6pm every single day working with this beautiful group of souls, learning about ancient wisdom, learning about
00:15:11
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the practices of shamanism, learning the most in-depth information about the chakra system and the energy in our body and how trauma manifests physically in the body. And then we learned breathwork to just, again, an entirely new level than I had ever experienced or done before. And so that is now a big piece that I interweave into my work.
00:15:39
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And shortly after that, one of the individuals that I trained with in that program, who actually owns now a psychedelic assisted psychotherapy clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, I ended up living with her and her husband for two months. And that was how plant medicine became
00:15:59
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a much bigger part of my life. Prior to that, I had microdosed, and microdosing had really gifted me the ability of overcoming my own anxiety and depression. When all of that was unfolding, I was microdosing, and it was one of my biggest saving crises.
00:16:17
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But then I had the opportunity of actually sitting in guided journeys with this couple who is just truly two of the most heart-centered, incredible souls I have ever crossed paths within this realm. And my first ever guided journey blew my mind. And after having studied,
00:16:40
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traditional medicine and having been in talk therapy for myself for years, having done my own breath work, sound healing, neuro linguistic programming, craniosacral therapy, all of these things. I came out of that journey and I was just baffled as to how everyone on this earth does not know about this.
00:17:03
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because I was able to witness parts of myself. I was able to actually tap into memories that I had repressed. And this is what the psyche does for those of you listening is that when we endure trauma, sometimes the brain actually shuts down those neural pathways because of fear, because our body is just doing what it's designed to do is to keep us safe. And so we can actually lose memories from our childhood.
00:17:30
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And I was able to tap into those. I was able to come out of the egoic mind, which is the beautiful part of plant medicine. It takes us out of the ego, into the heart, out of the head, into the heart, connects the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex so that we come out of fear and into empathy. And we come out of the space of being the judge of ourselves and we become the witness of ourselves.
00:17:54
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And that was what I was able to do. And in those five hours, I healed more within myself than I had in the past 10 years. And that is why I'm so passionate about sharing this work with people is because it's literally life-changing. It changed my life forever.
00:18:12
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Let's just take a minute because that was the most incredible story I think you've ever heard. Like I started that when you started telling that story, I was honestly like on the verge of crying and then I was like laughing and then I had goosebumps and then I was like laughing like that was
00:18:27
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That's an incredible story. Thank you for sharing that. That was honestly amazing. I'm honestly so happy that you came on here and shared that and I cannot wait for everybody else that's going to listen to this to hear that because that was
00:18:43
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That was my mind. I'm honestly speechless. Thank you. Yeah. It's, it's a privilege to be able to share that story. Honestly, I shared it on another podcast about a week ago and I actually realized it's been forever since I really shared my full story. I'm still getting closer for certain now thinking about it. Like that was, that was honestly wild. Like you had such a life change, such a life change and you're on such a different path now.
00:19:10
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Like I related to a lot a lot of things you were saying like because like I love
00:19:14
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I wasn't in the healthcare, but like I was in the oil fields and I went to this, right? But like once I started doing that, you mentioned how like things just started lining up perfectly. And like, I did feel like when I took that step away, it's like the universe was just with me. And like, you know, now that I'm here, like it's just, it's the best thing that I've ever done as well. You know, cause I actually do feel like I do have a purpose now. Like I'm not doing what you're doing, but like, I do feel like I have a,
00:19:42
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a part like a part in, you know, just spreading this message and getting people to get on these medicines and like it helps change your life as well. So like it just, it brings me a lot of joy because I spent a lot of years just doing mindless work, like welding, operating, like the people you work for, they don't really care about you. You know what I mean? Like doing this, you're just, you're helping people. I feel like you're changing the world one, one day at a time, you know? Yeah, absolutely.
00:20:09
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Crazy, crazy. It's a crazy world. Yeah, it is. And yeah, it truly does feel like like when I am not joking when I say that that feels like a different lifetime, because it actually does like it honestly feels like and it was I was a totally different person. Before I found plant medicine before I really dove deep into holistic healing. I was
00:20:35
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more or less just a cog in the system. I was following the proverbial checkbox that society told me I needed to do to be quote unquote successful. And this is something I hear people say all the time is, oh, I lost myself in that relationship, or I feel like I'm losing myself in that job.
Questioning Societal Norms of Success
00:20:53
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And that's what was happening is I was losing my truest essence. And I got to a point where I was just like, no, I know deep down in my heart and my soul that this
00:21:03
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is not the way life is supposed to live be lived. I am not supposed to be working Monday to Friday, sometimes Monday to Saturday, eight to 12 hours a day, just gunning for the weekend. I remember even having this thought when I was young, when I was young, and I was watching these loved ones deal with chronic illness and literally face their own death. In my mind, I was like, how
00:21:28
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can you be at peace knowing you have literally worked through the best years of your life through your young years you have slaved away for the system and now that you have gotten to this place where oh great congratulations now you can retire well guess what now you're sick because of how you operated in that system every single thing you are saying it's just i'm relating with it so much because
00:21:56
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My mind's just blown, honestly, because I'm reflecting on my life as well. And I was so unhealthy. I was so unhealthy. I used to work away for 20, 30 days at a time, sleeping maybe three, four hours a night. There's days I'll be working 15 hours on the job. And then you're traveling for two hours. You come home. You're just not sleeping at all, just exhausted all the time, just living off coffee, energy drinks. I feel like if I kept going down that path,
00:22:24
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Like you said, I would retire with a lot of health problems, you know, and very sad reality for many individuals. And I also just want to name here that like when I say I felt like I was a cog in the system, that's not to say that there aren't certain people who can be happy.
00:22:41
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working a nine to five job. I do deeply believe every single one of us has a unique and individual purpose. And there might be some people who are very happy working at an oil field are very happy working in healthcare. That is just not my sole path and very clearly was not yours. Yeah, I totally I totally agree with that.
00:23:00
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Because there is those guys you know and women that like to make all that money in that short amount of time and they like buying the trucks and the cars and this and that but like I found that when I stepped away from that and I started doing what I'm doing right now I just really stopped caring about material things and I stopped like chasing money and I was like now I'm just more like I want more time and
00:23:27
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for me, so I can just live my life and not just like have somebody like just holding you, you know, and just you just have to get up and you have to go do you know what I mean? So and that is the thing about the materialistic things is that because we're conditioned to seek those seeking of the materialistic and the money, it takes us out of the inner aspect of ourself. And I
00:23:51
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have also worked through a lot of money wounds myself. I now do deeply desire to generate wealth in my own life, but now it's because I know the wealthier I am, the more people I can help. And I've sat with a lot of millionaires and billionaires and many of them are miserable because they have all the things.
00:24:12
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but they haven't actually created that fulfillment within themselves. The wealthy individuals who are truly thriving are the ones who are using that monetary aspect to make an impact in this world. Yeah, yeah. I'm curious to what you said before the guided ceremony with those two people.
Guided Plant Medicine Ceremonies
00:24:37
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So like I, if I do, if I do a larger dose, right? Like I'll be at home with the girlfriend and like, I have a really great experience. I'm just curious, like how, how is it different? You know, like when someone's got guiding you, you know, is it, is it just, is it just maybe like, uh, like if I had no experience with mushrooms, would I go do that guided ceremony or is it totally different? I think.
00:25:04
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I mean, the answer for that is very individual for each person. I get a lot of people coming to me who yes, it's their first time. And I think there's a massive benefit to that to just know that somebody can hold space for you in a safe and sacred way. Okay.
00:25:20
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When it comes to a guided journey, so my guided journey back then, those several years ago, it was very different than how I guide journeys. But the biggest aspect of it for me was being somewhere and with someone where I had absolutely no question in my mind that I was safe. And it was a big thing for me at the time because I had never touched a drug.
00:25:43
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I had never even smoked marijuana. I had drank in my teen years. I went to a party school for university. So I definitely use alcohol as a crutch. But I had never touched a drug aside from the micro dosing that I had done. So I had never. So you never had a large large experience? No. Okay.
00:26:01
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No, none whatsoever. And so for me, the guided aspect of it for me was important to just feel that sense of safety and security. And that is something that I really pride myself in my work now that I have sat in so many ceremonies not only receiving, but also facilitating is that my top priority is creating a safe and sacred space.
00:26:26
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Yeah, I honestly think that's probably the best way to do it for people who are not experienced with mushrooms. Because now that I think about it, like when I first started, I would take these larger doses, I didn't know anything about it. And I'd be so confused. And like, you just you just don't understand what's going on, right? But like, now, obviously, I have a lot of experience. I know I know what I'm getting myself into. I know what I can expect. And I always come out the next day, like with a very, you know, life changer experience. But yeah, for anybody that
00:26:53
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is wanting one of these experiences, I would definitely do the guided one. And you do these, right? You do the, do you want to talk about that? Yeah, absolutely. So like, yeah, so I'm curious, like, what would people expect if they showed up to one of your ceremonies? Okay, beautiful question. So first of all, I just want to name that what really differentiates doing medicine on your own or doing it recreationally. And this is why I call it medicine to why
00:27:22
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Yes, of course it can be used as a drug. Using a substance as a drug is when you use it somewhat recklessly or without the aspect of sacredness of a reverence for the plant spirit and with intention. So there are two major aspects that go into what creates a medicinal ceremony and that is setting an intention.
00:27:48
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And the setting is very much so what I just alluded to with the safety and the sacredness of the space. This is a piece that, unfortunately, a lot of individuals doing plant medicine work who have just gone and sat once and then are like, Oh, I'm gonna I feel quote unquote called to serve this medicine. Right? Is that there is a lack of understanding as to what happens in these spaces. And so
00:28:17
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What really is happening is that you're opening your channel, right? So any substance that you take that gives you a journey or a trip, it opens your energetic channel to releasing and receiving. And what happens is that not only are you opening to light, to receiving messages from your angels, your guides, your ancestors, your higher self, if you really want to call it that. I'm not a big fan of that term, but your true self in essence,
00:28:47
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But if the space is not properly protected, cleansed, if you are not properly cleansed, if the individual facilitating is not grounded, is not doing their own protection invocation, and is not experienced enough to know how to work with energies and spirits, is that you are also opening yourself up to dark forces. And this is also why
00:29:14
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When you do medicine out in a recreational setting, a lot of people will have a quote unquote bad experience. Very common with mushrooms, especially because mushrooms are going to make you face your shit. The difference is that when you use mushrooms in a recreational setting and you're not honoring them in setting an intention, the spirit of the medicine actually feels that. And subsequently you're opening your channel and surrounded by a whole bunch of other people who you have no idea of their trauma of the energy that they're projecting.
00:29:44
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And I've witnessed multiple times now, people take on entities at music festivals because the energy there is just so intense and there's so much being liberated from people's bodies when they're dancing in their own substances. So anyways, kind of reeling myself back in off of this trajectory. So what goes into a ceremony is first and foremost, cleansing and protecting the space before anybody even gets there, cleansing and protecting every single person as they arrive and as we sit in circle.
00:30:12
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and also leading up to the ceremony itself. I don't just call people into a ceremony and then they meet me for the first time and they meet everybody else for the first time in ceremony. We do preparation. We also do integration coaching after, because in my honest opinion, the medicinal ceremony itself is a very small fragment of the healing journey. If you are not well prepared, and if you don't know how to integrate, if you don't have
00:30:38
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a safe and secure environment at home and the support that you need for integration at home, essentially the medicinal experience itself just becomes this transient, neat, insightful experience. And then you go back into the real world and after a few days or a few weeks, the effects just kind of fade away. And if you're not applying everything that you learned in ceremony, all of that is lost. And so I really pride myself in
00:31:06
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ensuring that each and every individual not only feels fully prepared leading up to ceremony, but also after ceremony that they have integration support. And then in the ceremony itself, again, this differs between private ceremonies, group ceremonies. I'm now also facilitating in a space where we offer LSV therapy during the medicinal experience. So participants are receiving light sound and visual therapy while they're laying on a waterbed, which is just
00:31:37
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something that is incomparable to anything else that I've witnessed, but essentially I do weave sound healing into each and every journey. So whether that is the sound healing tracks at heart of healing where I'm facilitating or me playing my bowls and using my voice, um, the spirit of the mushroom has really allowed me to open my channel to use singing as a healing modality as well. And music has been a very sacred aspect of my life since I was young.
00:32:07
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My father, who passed when I was nine, he always sang to me.
00:32:10
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and played his guitar for me. And so I've always been privileged enough to receive the powers of the medicinal aspect of music.
Integrating Sound Healing
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And so that is something that I weave into all of my ceremonies and it looks different through each and every ceremony. But for those who aren't familiar with sound healing itself with crystal sound bowls, crystal sound bowls themselves are actually tuned to 432 Hertz, which is the resonant frequency of our DNA.
00:32:37
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So the beautiful thing about incorporating sound healing with medicine journeys is that when your channel is open to receiving, then you receive this 432 Hertz frequency. It actually recalibrates your DNA. It recalibrates your cells. It recalibrates you not only at the emotional level, but at the physical level. So it's like pressing the reset button on your whole system.
00:33:03
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And then other elements, it's just, again, very individual, but I do a lot of energy work. I also facilitate some light breath work. We start ceremony sitting in circle, setting intentions. I create an altar as a physical representation of people's intentions. And then we dose together. And once the medicine starts kicking in for everybody, then basically the medicine is what does the work, right? Like the spirit of the medicine is innately smart.
00:33:33
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And it will take each and every individual where they need to go. I am just there as a support system and as a conduit to help people feel, to see, to release and to receive exactly what they need in those moments. So sometimes that might look like me doing hands-on healing energy work. Sometimes that might look like me singing to somebody. Sometimes that might look like me just playing the bowls for the entire room. Sometimes that might look like me guiding somebody through some gentle breath work to just reground them back into their being.
00:34:04
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And then some ceremonies, it looks like the entire room hysterically laughing through one of the saddest songs that I have ever played. That is like one of my...
00:34:13
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best memories from ceremony. If anybody's familiar with the song, Debbie Prayer, is a song that really just I find brings up the utmost amount of bottled up grief in anybody. And I played this song during one ceremony and all of a sudden the whole room is just hysterically laughing. And I was like, okay, well, we're having fun now. This is great.
00:34:39
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Yeah, yeah, honestly, I really do hope that I get to get out to Calgary and experience one of these. I feel like I don't know anybody here in Newfoundland that does that type of stuff. But I do like how you do the integration thing after the ceremony because I actually just posted about this in my story today because someone reached out and they done the challenge and they were micro dosing, they were doing the journaling, right? And then like, as soon as the challenge stopped, they just stopped.
00:35:09
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And it's like, you know, it's, it's, it's, we, we often do that, you know, we, we, we get to this level where we just think like, Oh, we're good now we're healed. And then we just take their foot off the gas. We stopped doing everything. We just get comfortable. Then like, we slowly start going back to old habits. And you know what I mean? Like you gotta continue to do these things like.
00:35:31
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you know, not I'm not saying you need to continue to boot plant medicine for the rest of your life. But like, you know, going for a walk outside, journaling a little bit meditating, like doing these things daily, like needs to be a continuous practice to like, for me anyways, like I know, like, when I stop this stuff, my energy starts, I can literally feel my energy, like go away. And I'm like, Okay, well,
00:35:51
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I'm not doing the stuff that I was doing when my energy was high, you know? Absolutely. And these are all just what I like to call tools in our toolbox, right? So like plant medicine is a tool in our toolbox, breath work is a tool in our toolbox, meditation, spending time in nature, they're all tools in our toolbox that we get to use at our own will to elevate our energy and to continue to come home to our true self and remember why we came here.
00:36:21
Speaker
And I also really just want to emphasize that plant medicine is not for everybody. It's very trendy right now. And I see a lot of people doing very much so what we talked about earlier with like the seeking materialistic things is that they're actually looking for something outside of themselves to heal them for
Suitability and Intent of Plant Medicine
00:36:40
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them. And that is not what plant medicine is going to do. Plant medicine is not a path for everyone. It is something that you have to be
00:36:49
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deeply devoted to, well you don't have to be, you can choose to do it otherwise, but it will show you the deepest, darkest corners of yourself. It will bring up the emotions and the memories that you have repressed.
00:37:03
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That is why the integration process is so important as well, because if you see and witness and feel into all of that, but then you don't have support and tools, other tools that you can carry forward after the journey, then it's very likely that if you are seeking it as an aspect to heal you, that your psyche after it comes off the medicine is going to go back into the ego, back into the monkey mind and go, okay, we're going to distract and we're going to numb and we're going to do all the things that we were doing before because we don't want to face that shit.
00:37:34
Speaker
Yeah, I relate, I relate to what you just said, because I was before I started doing plant medicine, I was always somebody that that seek other people for happiness. And I never looked within here, I avoided my problems, I just ran away, try to distract my mind as much as possible, right. And then you mentioned how like the plant medicine opens up your heart. And that's what happened. Like it's just I finally just, and especially when I do a larger dose, I find it always takes me back to my childhood.
00:38:03
Speaker
It always brings me back there. And like, I always cry. I always cry every time, but like I do feel like every time I do a large dose, I'm always like just healing some past stuff that I don't even know that needs to be healed. And it's like the medicine just like speaks to you. Like, like you said, it's very, it's very intelligent. It is. It is beautiful. Yeah, healing is layers, right? So one journey, you'll see a certain layer of yourself.
00:38:32
Speaker
And then if you take the time to integrate properly and actually heal that full layer, then the next journey you're going to see a deeper layer. And I truly believe the medicine will show us exactly what we're ready to see. And so even for a journey that might feel very dark, very confronting, very all consuming, I actually take that as a compliment to myself or to whatever individual is experiencing that, because it's like, Hey, you're actually ready to face this depth of
Microcybin and Collective Healing
00:38:59
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yourself. And that's why you're being shown it.
00:39:01
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. You're a very smart woman. You're very, you're very motivating. Like I like listen to you speak, you know, I'm definitely I'm definitely gonna listen to this back and like to take a lot from it. And I know a lot of people is gonna listen to this and feel the same way. Well, one thing I want to bring up in your your, your, your ceremony is like you used to make your own type of plant medicine, right? But like, you're currently, you're currently using microcybin, right?
00:39:30
Speaker
So like, how did that become? Because from what Fallon told me, she mentioned that you were kind of against bigger companies making medicine and stuff like that. You want to share a little bit on that?
00:39:44
Speaker
I was. Yeah. And this is a great question. So, um, first and foremost, just to name, I wasn't making my own medicine in the sense that I was growing my own. Um, I was, I had three different sources that I was kind of going back and forth between. And before I left Canada.
00:40:06
Speaker
I really noticed a difference in the energetics of them. Like I was making micros for myself still. And I don't know if it was due to like the collective consciousness and everything that was happening in the world at the time, or if there was truly a shift in who was growing them, handling them, everything. But I just really was not feeling it anymore. And I stopped making micros for a while because I just didn't feel comfortable sharing that energy with anybody else.
00:40:36
Speaker
And I've used a lot of my own micros just from various companies, but from my own experiences and from my own knowledge and perspective of how the spirit of medicine works, I was never really a fan of bigger corporate companies making micros because what I felt was that the spirit of the medicine was lost in that process of making them in batch, right?
00:41:06
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And as you know, everything is energy. And so the energy that goes into growing them, the energy that goes into harvesting them, the energy that goes into encapsulating them, that is all going to affect the energy of that medicine and how it affects an individual. And
00:41:25
Speaker
So when Fallon presented microcybin to me, I was like, okay, like I'm open. I'll give it a try. But in my mind, there was still this limiting belief that, okay, well it's a big company and it's probably going to have similar effects as all of the other ones that I have tried. And I'm not saying any of those were bad. I still definitely think medicine is going to bring you insights and it's going to help you in whatever way it can for you and your personal journey at the time.
00:41:55
Speaker
I will also name that there are some people out there doing medicinal work that do not have good intentions that have not done their own core healing. And so that energy is transferred when you're handling medicine, when you are encapsulating medicine, when you are giving medicine to other people and you are operating still from a deeply traumatized place that transfers. And so.
00:42:25
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When I first hopped on the phone with Jay from Microcybin, almost one of the first things that he said to me was, Sarah, I just want to let you know that the vision for Microcybin, the vision of our company, I don't want us to be the biggest microdosing company in the world. I want us to be the microdosing company that keeps the spirit of the medicine alive.
00:42:53
Speaker
And I was like, okay, I was like, now you're speaking my language. And the description of how this particular medicine is grown on sacred land by people who truly love doing what they do. They love gardening, they love growing, they love harvesting, right? It's something that they are so passionate about.
00:43:21
Speaker
And that energy transfers, like I said. And when I tried these microdoses, I was blown away, honestly. I was absolutely blown away by the energy of them. And they do, like Zen, it is Zen. Jedi literally makes me feel like I could take over the world. Sport makes me feel like I could lift every single weight in the gym.
00:43:50
Speaker
And go ahead, go ahead. No, you were talking about Jedi. Like for me, um, I had a bottle, like I'm out now, but I was taking two off the hop and I used to just take two to sit in the meditation and it was like all these like ideas were just coming. I don't even know where they were coming from. And then like, I would like finish the meditation. I would sit down and then I would just start like writing like content or like ideas for podcasts and stuff like that.
00:44:21
Speaker
Yeah. But like every single product is, is it literally does something different to your brain. And it's, I think, I think it's pretty cool. Yeah. And I just, I have so much reverence and respect for how this company operates and the intention behind it. And also that the vision is to connect all of us, right. And to expand the network.
00:44:42
Speaker
and to make an impact in people's lives. And that's what I think all of this is about. It's not about selling a product to people to make a profit. It is about impacting the collective whole and increasing collective healing and consciousness. And that is what I believe Microcybin is doing. And it is deeply felt when I sit with our medicine. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Let's do something cool here.
Advice for Last Day on Earth
00:45:10
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Just say this is your last day on earth. Right. Um, I actually got this from, uh, the school of greatness. I don't know if you listened to it. Yeah, it's great. Um, but I think I, I love, I love how he does this at the end. So like tomorrow, if today was your last day, right. And you had, you had one piece of advice to give to the world right now for them to remember you or everything that you learned, what would that one piece of advice be?
00:45:42
Speaker
Honestly, I think it would be to give yourself permission to slow down to the speed of soul, to come out of the head and into the heart, because that is the longest and the greatest journey that any of us will ever take in this lifetime. And if you can slow yourself down to that speed of soul and let your heart speak over that voice of your head, I deeply believe that you cannot
00:46:13
Speaker
walk astray from your soul's path. I'm not going to lie, I have a cap on the crying right now. Honestly, that was beautiful because it's something that I'm like really working on lately is just slowing down. But whatever you just said, just hit my heart like a ton of bricks. I've never cried on a podcast and this is twice now already.
00:46:41
Speaker
That was nice. That was nice. One of my greatest gifts in this world is making people cry like babies. I love it. I take it honestly as such a compliment when somebody is able to open up to me emotionally, because again, that is that's telling me that you feel safe in this space. Yeah, I do. I do. This was honestly a pleasure, a real pleasure to have you on her. I'm really excited to get this out to people.
00:47:08
Speaker
If you want to let everybody know if you have any upcoming events or where to follow you on social media, anything you want to bring up right now, floor is yours. Thank you.
Sarah's Social Media and Offerings
00:47:18
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Um, the best place to find me is Instagram. My Instagram handle is at Sarah J. Khan. My full name is Sarah Jessica Connolly. So it's S a R a H.
00:47:28
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j c o n and i do have a link tree on there so you can see some of my offerings i also always pin my monthly offerings to the top of my page and then i do have lots of upcoming events in calgary happening i have a few breath and sound alchemy journeys
00:47:46
Speaker
and a few other deeper journeys coming up. So the best way to find out about that is to just message me. I typically like to chat with somebody and then just hop on a call with them. I do free discovery calls. It's just for me to be able to understand where you are in your journey.
00:48:03
Speaker
so that I can determine first and foremost if it's a fit for you and I to work together and what offering of mine may be a good fit for you. And then I have tons of documents that you can read through at your own leisure, but I really like to make that connection on a personal level instead of somebody just clicking a link and signing up for something.
00:48:23
Speaker
because I really do like to develop that trust and rapport and that safety and respect with everyone. So send me a DM and if for some reason you can't find me, message Adam and I'm sure he can direct you my way. But yeah, it's been such a pleasure to be here. And I also have a podcast as well. It is called The Big Little Soul Podcast. It's available on Spotify, Apple and all podcast hosts. So check that out as well.
00:48:47
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To follow that, I will add every single one of her links in the description on Spotify. So if you just go there, you can find all the links where to find her, her podcasts, everything. It was a pleasure to have you on. Really appreciate you sharing your story. And you guys have a good day. Thanks so much, Adam. Thanks so much, everyone.