Episode 57

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18th Aug 2026

How to Heal Your Past, Your Health and Yourself with Sarah Dawkins

Have you ever had something going on with your health for so long that you've basically just accepted it?

Maybe you're always tired. Or wearing stress like a badge of honour. Or your skin flares up at the wrong moments. And after a while, you just think, "Well, this is how it is."

What if it doesn't have to be?

What if some of the things you’ve accepted as “just how I am” could actually be healed? And how much more freedom would you have if they weren’t there anymore?

In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when you stop just dealing with the symptoms and start asking what’s actually causing them (hint: it's usually something from your past you haven’t fully dealt with yet).

Joining us is Sarah Dawkins, author of "Heal Yourself" and a former registered nurse who spent more than 20 years in conventional medicine before her own healing journey made her question everything she thought she knew about getting well.

You’ll learn how to start listening to what your body is actually telling you, some of the signs you might be ignoring, and the small changes you can start making to heal your body without trying to overhaul your entire life overnight. Let's dive in.

In This Episode

  • Welcome Sarah Dawkins and how she came to do this work
  • Why treating a symptom and actually healing it aren't necessarily the same thing
  • What can happen when the life you're living no longer feels like you
  • Why getting to the root of a health problem can mean looking beyond the physical
  • Where do you even start when changing your diet, lifestyle and environment feels completely overwhelming?
  • Why making lots of healthy changes at once can actually make it harder to understand what your body needs
  • How to start listening to your body - and the subtle signs that something might not be working for you
  • Why a change that helps you now doesn't necessarily have to be something you do forever
  • Why changing your lifestyle doesn't have to mean throwing everything away and starting again
  • How unresolved emotions and experiences from years ago can continue to affect the way you feel today
  • What "inner child" work actually looks like when you strip away all the jargon
  • Why stress may be playing a much bigger role in how you feel than you realise
  • The difference between what you can control and what you're exhausting yourself trying to control
  • How people-pleasing, perfectionism and worrying about other people's reactions can keep you stuck in stress
  • Why letting go of other people's opinions can give you a completely different kind of freedom
  • How to support someone without automatically trying to fix their problem
  • Sarah's #1 to start unleashing your freedom today

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We are leadership coaches who met on our journey to becoming free while coaching together. Now we're coaching high-achieving people into breaking through their inner barriers, achieving those goals they once thought impossible, and truly unleashing their freedom.