Make Your Brain a Kinder Place to Live
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Hello, I’m Sarah
I’m a neuroscience educator, constellations facilitator, certified Nonviolent Communication trainer and author who invites audiences into a compassionate understanding of the effects of relational trauma on the brain, and teaches about how to use resonance to change and heal.
But it wasn’t always this way… I used to struggle with brutal depression and anxiety. I was in constant battle with a savagely self-critical inner voice that told me I was worthless, stupid, and unlovable. Before I understood the science of how difficult events impact our automatic brain patterning, and how trauma fragments our capacity for self-warmth, I thought I was just plain broken.
But there is nothing wrong with me, nor with you. We make sense. No matter what challenging feelings we have, no matter how flawed our strategies are for trying to get our needs met. I am thrilled to share what I’ve learned about how trauma impacts the brain, and how we can move into a joyful relationship with ourselves and others through resonant healing. Read more about me here.
I dream of a world where all humans have a sense of belonging and mattering, where we treat ourselves, the planet, and the beings around us with gentleness and care. Do you have this longing too? If so, you are in the right place.
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Upcoming Events
50 Days for Peace: an 8-week Practice Community of Kingian Nonviolence
50 Days for Peace: an 8-week Practice Community of Kingian Nonviolence
Are you wondering how to live peacefully in a world filled with injustice, rising violence and converging crises? Starting in January, Roxy Manning, Kathleen Macferran, Kathy Simon and Sarah Peyton are offering an eight-week learning and practice space to meet in commun...
Mentoring program for NVC Certification Candidates – Quarter 1, 2021
Mentoring program for NVC Certification Candidates – Quarter 1, 2021
This is a question-based program to support NVC Certification Candidates – Participants will come with questions and blocks in their NVC Journey. Meets once monthly January- April 2021. Participants must be registered with an NVC assessor to attend.
Radical Self-Compassion: a Year-long Practice of Tenderness, Courage, and Self Confidence!
Radical Self-Compassion: a Year-long Practice of Tenderness, Courage, and Self Confidence!
Have you been struggling to find self-warmth? Does your critical inner self go crazy on you when you make mistakes? Do you have days that start off feeling fine, then you suddenly fall into a pit of shame? Perhaps you even struggle to connect with the words "self-compas...
Brain Hemispheres and Facilitators: What It Helps to Know
Brain Hemispheres and Facilitators: What It Helps to Know
The healing that comes with constellation work shifts people into the big picture, but the big picture part of the brain is also where the hell of trauma comes alive. How do we provide the accompaniment needed to support client well-being?
Conspiracy Theories and Political Extremism: Understanding Brain Behavior in an Uncertain World
Conspiracy Theories and Political Extremism: Understanding Brain Behavior in an Uncertain World
The world is becoming increasingly uncertain. How can we understand all manner of brain behavior with patience and compassion in a world that is rife with violence, despair, oppression and uncertainty? With resonance. Join Sarah to explore the neuroscience behind conspi...
Juicy Relational Skills for Intimacy Part 1: Intimacy and Reactivity
Juicy Relational Skills for Intimacy Part 1: Intimacy and Reactivity
What causes us to react to others and how long does it take for our bodies to calm? Learn the role implicit memory plays in reactivity, and how we can use empathy and resonance skills to transform reactivity into calm and connection.
Warmth in Constellation Facilitation: Benefits and Clarifications
Warmth in Constellation Facilitation: Benefits and Clarifications
Every facilitator has a different approach to working with constellations. What is your natural starting point? Are you warm? Cold? Neutral? Is it important for constellation facilitators to have warmth for their clients? What are the implications for neutrality? These ...
Alarmed Aloneness: Healing Anxiety and Loneliness with Resonance
Alarmed Aloneness: Healing Anxiety and Loneliness with Resonance
How do we explain the astounding epidemic of loneliness and anxiety in the western world? Learning what is happening in our bodies and our brains as we deal with loneliness and activation of the GRIEF/PANIC circuit helps us take care of ourselves with warmth and compass...
Power and its Shadow
Power and its Shadow
Part of a year-long masterclass, this stand-alone 5-day online constellations retreat with Sarah is an opportunity to explore many aspects of power as they appear in constellation work and in life, the relational neuroscience of power, how we surrender or claim power, h...
Archetypes and Power in Brains and in Constellations
Archetypes and Power in Brains and in Constellations
Two important resources for human brains are models for how to be and the naming of overarching human patterns. In constellations, archetypes can provide an opportunity for the client and facilitator to shift into their right hemisphere, where our vision of the big pict...
The Neuroscience of Inflammation: What Can Resonance Bring?
The Neuroscience of Inflammation: What Can Resonance Bring?
We know a lot about managing inflammation with drugs and diets and exercise, but what do we need to know about the relationship between resonant support and inflammation? Join Sarah for practical tools to bring presence to our own bodies in support of a balanced and hea...
Attachment Patterns in Constellations: Identification and Movement
Attachment Patterns in Constellations: Identification and Movement
How does attachment show up in our client work and in ourselves? What approaches can we use to support our clients when these patterns arise?
Juicy Relational Skills for Intimacy Part 2: The Relationship Between Seeing and Warmth
Juicy Relational Skills for Intimacy Part 2: The Relationship Between Seeing and Warmth
What knowledge about the brain gives us leverage to really begin to see each other? Learn to tell the difference between instrumental and relational connections, and begin to walk the path toward more richness, meaning and intimacy. Practice resonant language in relatio...
Spiritual Bypassing and Toxic Positivity: The Neuroscience and Complexity of Nonduality
Spiritual Bypassing and Toxic Positivity: The Neuroscience and Complexity of Nonduality
Have you noticed something strange when spiritual practice is used to sidestep real-world challenges and unrest? Or when we advocate the use of positive thinking to avoid acknowledging injustice and genuine challenges? Join Sarah to explore the brain benefits and the dr...
Avoidant Clients: Constellation Tools and Resources
Avoidant Clients: Constellation Tools and Resources
Join Sarah to learn about avoidant attachment, how it shows up in constellations, and how we can use our constellation work to support healing and movement.
We Need to Broaden our Definition of Trauma
Trauma comes not only from individual adverse childhood experiences, but from 500+ years of colonialism, ancestral wounding, living in a world on the brink of environmental and social collapse, forced migration, genocide, racism, gender oppression, and other epigentic wounds we carry in our bodies and spirits.
From the Blog
What are Unconscious Contracts?
I teach this process extensively, and my second book (publishing in 2021) will feature it prominently!) because I haven't found any other process that allows us to so thoroughly disentangle the deeply patterned emotional responses and emotional rules we enact on...
Truth Not Trauma: Understanding Relational Trauma and the Brain
Once we understand how trauma impacts our mammalian circuitry (Jaak Panksepp's 8 circuits of emotion and motivation), we begin to see that so many things we've given ourselves a hard time for, are not static truths about us, but instead are simply the result of...
Understanding Rage and Honoring Boundaries in Healing Trauma
In our culture, rage is considered mostly unacceptable, especially by women. But rage is one of our eight circuits of emotion and motivation. In this podcast interview, we discuss how rage helps us understand when our boundaries have been violated. Why is rage so...

Heal Your Brain with Resonant Language
If you’ve read countless self-help and guided meditation books, only to feel unchanged and perpetually struggling to turn toward yourself with kindness and love, then this book is for you!