In this deeply compassionate and insightful episode, Lisa is joined by holistic counsellor and intuitive healer Sarah Yeoman, who brings over two decades of experience in health, wellbeing, and trauma-informed care.

Sarah shares her professional journey from primary school teaching into the healing arts, including her background in exercise science, remedial massage, nutrition, and energy work. Through years of hands-on practice and lived experience, Sarah developed her own healing modality, Cevelo, which blends talk therapy with energy healing to help people release emotional triggers, reconnect with their authentic selves, and feel empowered in their lives.

The conversation explores Sarah’s path through further study, personal loss, and professional transformation, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the passing of her father. These experiences led her to retrain as a counsellor and create the RISE method, a framework designed to help individuals redefine their stories, understand emotional triggers, and move beyond survival-based patterns.

Lisa and Sarah discuss how trauma often originates in childhood and can shape adult behaviour, relationships, and emotional responses. Sarah explains how intuitive coaching and counselling sessions create a safe space for clients to uncover unconscious patterns, process stored emotions, and gently resolve trauma without force or re-traumatisation.

The episode also delves into the concept of negative memory bias, explaining how the brain prioritises perceived threats as a survival mechanism. Sarah highlights the importance of safety, trust, and nervous system regulation in trauma healing, acknowledging that each person’s healing timeline is unique.

Drawing from her experience as a trauma-informed massage therapist, Sarah discusses the role of touch in healing and the necessity of consent, safety, and emotional readiness. Lisa shares reflections from her own trauma journey, reinforcing the importance of finding practitioners who are deeply attuned to both physical and emotional boundaries.

This episode is a powerful reminder that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about creating safety, awareness, and space for authenticity to emerge.

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