In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara returns to the core of what Reclaimed truly means. She explores reclaiming power and energy not as something to build or earn, but as something to retrieve after years of survival, conditioning, and self-abandonment. This is the shift from healing as recovery into empowerment as embodiment.

Sara unpacks how power is often unconsciously given away through people-pleasing, overfunctioning, self-silencing, and attachment-based survival strategies. She explains reclaiming as a soul-level return — calling fragmented parts of yourself back into wholeness and learning to live from alignment rather than protection.

This episode offers clarity for those who feel drained in love, leadership, or success, and who sense that something is off despite “doing everything right.” It invites you to examine where your energy may be leaking, where your truth has been softened for connection, and how choosing peace, embodiment, and self-trust restores your natural authority.

Reclaiming is not becoming someone new, it is remembering who you were before you learned to survive.

Sara shares more about;

• Reclaiming power as the retrieval of fragmented identity, not the performance of strength
• Reclaiming energy by withdrawing emotional investment from distortion rather than love
• Why love, abundance, and success are byproducts of self-reclamation, not pursuits
• How healing becomes true empowerment when it moves into embodied authority and self-trust

Sara illustrates how narcissistic and high-pressure dynamics train us to doubt ourselves, prioritize others’ emotions, and abandon our own needs — and why reclaiming begins the moment you choose alignment over attachment and peace over being understood.

If you’ve felt exhausted, disconnected, or like you’ve lost yourself while trying to maintain love, safety, or success, this conversation invites you to come back to yourself and reclaim what has always been yours.

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the often-misunderstood phase of transformation known as the in-between space. This is the stretch of time after an internal identity shift has occurred, but before the external reality has caught up. The moment many people believe they are stuck, doing something wrong, or missing a step, when in truth something far more important is happening beneath the surface.

Sara explains why reality does not respond to urgency, effort, or intellectual understanding, but instead responds to integration. She unpacks how change must move through the entire system (mindset, nervous system, body, and identity) before results can sustainably arrive.

This episode offers reassurance for high performers, overachievers, and entrepreneurs who feel the discomfort of pause after expansion, and it invites you to reframe silence, plateaus, and pauses as recalibration rather than delay, and to recognize that the becoming phase is not empty time.

The pause you’re experiencing is not a failure — it’s a recalibration preparing you to hold more.

Sara shares more about;

• The in-between space occurs after an identity shift, not before the result
• Integration is embodied, not intellectual — knowing is not the same as being
• Rushing the pause prevents you from holding what is trying to arrive
• You attract from identity, not desire
• Silence, plateaus, and slowing down are signs of nervous system recalibration

Sara illustrates how passion fades before it renews, how old identities crumble before new ones stabilize, and why patience is a required skill for sustainable growth.

If you’ve been tempted to push harder, rush the process, or abandon the path altogether, this conversation invites you to soften, stabilize, and trust what is integrating within you.

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In this powerful episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the hidden receiving wound that lives beneath ambition, success, and self-sufficiency. She shares how many high-achieving, empathic women believe their challenge is manifestation, when in reality the body does not yet feel safe receiving what has already been called in.

This episode explores how survival patterns can quietly persist even after success is achieved. Sara unpacks how burnout, over-functioning, and constant productivity are signs of a nervous system still operating from survival mode, because giving has felt safer than receiving.

This week’s episode invites you to understand that difficulty receiving is not a mindset issue or a lack of self-worth. It is a nervous system pattern shaped by early conditioning around support, rest, and love. Sara explores how this wound shows up in love, money, rest, admiration, and leadership.

This episode invites you to better understand that;

• The receiving wound lives in the nervous system and subconscious, not the conscious mind.
• High-achieving women often use success, control, and productivity as regulation strategies.
• Overgiving, burnout, and difficulty resting are protective adaptations, not personal flaws.
• Receiving requires trust, slowing down, and allowing support without obligation.

Sara also shares personal stories of emotional unavailability, overworking, ancestral money patterns, and how recalibrating her nervous system transformed her relationship with love, rest, and wealth. And, she explains why healing the receiving wound does not mean becoming less ambitious or less powerful, but more integrated, spacious, and embodied.

If receiving has ever felt uncomfortable or unsafe, this episode is an invitation to release survival patterns and step into a new era where ease, love, and support are allowed.

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In this milestone 100th episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara reflects on a journey that began with one simple commitment and has grown into a global movement. She shares deep gratitude for 100 conversations, thousands of downloads, and listeners across the world, while opening a powerful new chapter of the Reclaimed message.

This episode explores the unseen spiritual initiation of the strong and independent woman. Sara unpacks how strength is often forged through necessity, how independence becomes armor, and why so many capable, empathic women quietly carry loneliness beneath their success.

This week’s episode invites you to understand your path not as something to fix, but as something to integrate. Sara shares her personal story, the energetic archetypes of the feminine, and how reclaiming softness, safety, and support becomes the gateway to true power, fulfillment, and expansion.

This episode invites you to better understand that;

• Strength held too long becomes armor that protects, but also blocks intimacy and support.
• Loneliness is often a signal that the soul is ready for its next evolution.
• True reclamation is not losing strength, but integrating it with softness and safety.

Sara reframes independence as a sacred phase of the feminine journey — the warrior archetype — and explains how the next evolution invites a transition into queen and priestess energy. This shift is not about doing more, but about being held, receiving without guilt, and leading from internal safety rather than endurance.

If you’ve been called “the strong one” your entire life, this episode is a reminder that you were never meant to carry everything alone. This episode invites you to receive the permission to soften, integrate, and step into your next era of leadership, love, and fulfillment.

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores what it truly means to become a high value reclaimed woman and why this identity shift has nothing to do with becoming someone new and everything to do with remembering who you were before survival became your armor.

She opens with a reflection on feminine self-respect and the moment a woman stops chasing, proving, or begging and begins choosing herself. Drawing from her own journey in love and leadership, Sara shares how reclaiming feminine energy allows women to move from survival into embodied queen energy, where life responds to who they are, not how hard they try.

This episode introduces a powerful shift and reveals that:

• Self-respect and consistency define high value, not chasing or proving.
• Feminine power is embodied, regulated, and heart-led.
• Independence must soften to allow intimacy, support, and receiving.
• Trust is built through actions, not words or potential.
• Nervous system regulation creates stability, magnetism, and sustainable success.

This conversation explores the eight traits of the high value reclaimed woman and the shift from survival into embodied feminine leadership. Sara reveals how true power becomes calm, discerning, and regulated, allowing love, leadership, and success to feel aligned and sustainable rather than driven by force or anxiety.

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the difference between a soulmate connection and a trauma bond, and why so many people confuse intensity, chemistry, and emotional highs with real love. Drawing from personal experience, nervous system science, and energetic truth, she shares what love is meant to feel like when it’s rooted in safety rather than survival.

Sara explains how trauma bonds activate old wounds, anxiety, and self-abandonment, while soulmate relationships regulate the nervous system, support growth, and feel steady without sacrificing passion. This episode helps you understand why calm can initially feel unfamiliar, how to discern alignment beyond attraction, and what it truly means to be chosen consistently.

Here are some key takeaways from this episode:

• Soulmate connections feel safe, mutual, and emotionally regulating rather than anxious or confusing.
• Trauma bonds often recreate familiar chaos and activate old survival patterns.
• Effortless communication and shared values matter more than intensity or chemistry.
• True love supports growth without competition, proving, or self-abandonment.

If you’ve been questioning your relationship patterns or wondering whether love is supposed to feel this hard, this episode will help you recalibrate your expectations, trust your body’s wisdom, and open yourself to a love that feels expansive, secure, and deeply nourishing.

In this episode, I also share how my own healing journey led me to write Mangia, a cookbook created to nourish the body, regulate the nervous system, and support emotional healing. If you’re craving deeper nourishment and restoration. Get your copy of ​Mangia​.

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the energetic transition from the Year of the Snake into the Year of the Horse and why this past year has felt so deeply challenging for so many women. She shares how the Snake year required shedding old identities, relationships, and patterns, often through slow, uncomfortable internal transformation rather than visible progress.

Sara explains how this period of recalibration prepared you for what comes next, and how the incoming Horse energy invites boldness, momentum, and embodied leadership. This episode supports you in understanding why clarity arrived before action, why alignment had to come first, and how to move forward without proving, hustling, or abandoning yourself.

This episode shares that:

• The Year of the Snake focused on shedding, recalibration, and deep inner transformation.
• Feeling slowed down was part of alignment, not stagnation.
• Relationships and boundaries were reviewed to prepare you for expansion.
• The Year of the Horse brings boldness, momentum, and authentic self-expression.
• Aligned action replaces overthinking, proving, and survival-based effort.

If you’ve felt cracked open, tested, or quietly reshaped this year, this episode will help you reframe what you’ve been moving through and prepare you to step forward with clarity, confidence, and trust as a new cycle begins.

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara guides you into the deeper energetic work of understanding why so many women struggle to receive, even when they’ve been manifesting, visualizing, and doing “all the right things.” She shares how the heart becomes guarded long before adulthood, why hyper-independence forms as protection, and her own experience of softening open after years of emotional self-reliance.

Sara breaks down why the heart closes, how early conditioning shapes our receiving patterns, and what begins to shift when you create inner safety, reconnect with your emotional body, and return to the deeper truth of who you are. This episode supports you in recognizing your protection patterns, rebuilding emotional availability, and opening the portal to love, abundance, and support in a new way.

This episode shares that:

• A guarded heart forms from childhood patterns of self-protection, not weakness.
• Receiving is a feminine energetic process that requires inner safety and openness.
• Hyper-independence is often a trauma response that blocks love, money, and support.
• You can manifest from the mind, but you only receive through the heart.
• Emotional presence, softness, and allowing support are essential for your next level.

If you’ve been feeling disconnected, pushing help away, or sensing that something inside you is trying to open, this episode will help you understand the root of that tension and guide you back into clarity, softness, and the deeper capacity to receive again.

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