Make Your Brain a Kinder Place to Live
The path to healing our brains is to greet our bodies with resonance. Regardless of age, genetic predisposition or painful life experiences, you can change and heal! Start Healing Now
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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Sarah helps healing practitioners bring the science of resonance into their professional work
EXPLORE FAMILY CONSTELLATIONS
Family constellations untangle our present challenges by bringing resonance to our ancestral past
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...
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...
Integrated Supervision January 2021
Integrated Supervision January 2021
This group is for practitioners who are interested in receiving supervision support about how to integrate resonant language, relational neuroscience, and constellations into 1-1 sessions, teaching, and group work.
Client Days with Master Constellator Elena Veselago – Attend as a Witness
Client Days with Master Constellator Elena Veselago – Attend as a Witness
Free Will, the Brain, and Constellations
Free Will, the Brain, and Constellations
The question of free will versus fate has been of interest to humans for as long as we’ve been able to track our thought. It is also of interest in our constellation work. Join Sarah for a brief overview of this topic, followed by an illustrative constellation using t...
The Neuroscience of White Fragility
The Neuroscience of White Fragility
One of the organizing systems in the Global North is a prioritization of white bodied people. Join Sarah to explore the neuroscience research around privilege, defensiveness, and what often occurs when we combine access to dominance (privilege) with nervous system disr...
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.
Integrated Supervision February 2021
Integrated Supervision February 2021
This group is for practitioners who are interested in receiving supervision support about how to integrate resonant language, relational neuroscience, and constellations into 1-1 sessions, teaching, and group work.
I, You and We: Discovering Edges and Boundaries
I, You and We: Discovering Edges and Boundaries
Part of a year-long masterclass, this stand-alone 5-day online constellations retreat with Sarah Peyton is an opportunity to take a deep dive into boundaries and how they impact our relationships with others and ourselves. Where do we start and stop? What belongs to us ...
2021 Online NVC Conference
2021 Online NVC Conference
Looking to level up your communication skills? Join us for the 14th Annual NVC Conference hosted online for the second time by the NVC Academy, the online classroom for learning NVC concepts. This is a full weekend of enriching workshops with trainers from across the wo...
The Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala and the Flow of Love
The Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala and the Flow of Love
Have you wondered how family constellations might help us repair attachment wounds and blocks in the flow of resource from past generations to future generations, and from parent to child? Join Sarah for an overview of the neuroscience of the prefrontal cortex and amygd...
Gaslighting: Understanding and Healing from Abuse
Gaslighting: Understanding and Healing from Abuse
Have you heard the term ‘gaslighting’ — when someone creates alternate reality within which we feel crazy, and causes us to doubt our own sanity? Learn about what’s happening in the brains of both parties of gaslighting, and what steps we might take for recovery...
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.
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...
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!
