Working with Sara Joy was one of the best coaching experiences I’ve ever had, because it changed me. Deeply.

Before I started coaching with her, I could easily spiral into self-doubt, despair, and overwhelm.

Being a coach myself, I had an intellectual understanding that I was connected to universal intelligence and that, when I was plugged in, clarity and insights would come. I also knew, at least in theory and also when I worked with my clients, that when humans let go of limiting thoughts, they create a better experience of life, all from within.

But it remained brainy. I didn’t feel it in my soul.

Then I spent three intensive days with Sara Joy, and the shift I wanted for so long finally happened. She would laugh gently at the psychological pretzels I tied myself into and guide me back to my deeper self. She’d shared her own stories of wrestling with the same patterns and of unraveling her unhelpful thinking.

Most of all, I could sense that she simply didn’t believe the negative things I told myself about myself. Through her eyes, I began to see those thoughts for what they were: made-up stories.

After those three days, I was looking forward to six more sessions with her. I’m grateful that she generously allowed me to drag out these appointments over months. I wanted to savor the time spent with her like dark, Belgian chocolate.

During those follow-up conversations, the new insights sank even deeper into my soul, and I began to live from this new way of being more and more.

One of the greatest gifts Sara Joy gave me was a formula she came up with: desire + presence = magic.

I’ve since used it as the guiding principle for launching my YouTube channel, something I’d wanted to do for years to build my coaching practice. When I stay connected to the aliveness I feel while creating, the process becomes effortless and joyful without getting hung up on the outcome. It truly feels magical.

If you’re looking for a coach who helps you succeed simply by being more fully yourself, Sara Joy is the one.

- Risa Haasbroek, Professional Coach   www.risa4coaching.com

Working with Sara has been a transformational experience. She helped me reconnect with my truest self—my inner wisdom—rather than operating from learned beliefs, emotional reactions, or the constructed filters of the world around me. Through her guidance, I’ve developed a new framework for understanding my mind, thoughts, and consciousness, which has allowed me to move more fluidly in alignment with my true desires and intentions.

This process provides the space and tools to understand that you are in control and have permission to release thoughts, feelings, and emotions that no longer serve you. I’ve come to know that I don’t have to react to the world—I can create within it. I now feel empowered to observe the patterns, labels, and mental constructs I’ve maintained, and gently let go of the ones that limit me or limit my desired reality. This has had a powerful impact, not just mentally or emotionally, but physically as well—I've felt true release in my body.

Through one-on-one coaching with Sara, I have come to understand more clearly that rules and structures can be useful, but they’re not absolute. When they’ve outlived their purpose, I have the ability to dissolve them. I’ve become more attuned to the feedback loops in my operating system and learned to trust the inner tools I already possess.

If you’re seeking an approach and the support to help you tap into your authentic self and shift the way you experience your reality, I can’t recommend Sara highly enough. This work has been a game-changer for me in everything I do.

- Alexandra Kraushaar, Founder, Oggo Grown

Inner Peace - no really actually.

- Zac Perry, Musician, The Zac Perry Band

After going through transformative coaching with Sara, I have had many friends tell me that they feel that I am getting back to my old self. My humour, wisdom and zest for life have returned.

I had suffered a head injury and a brain bleed over four years ago, and it had a huge impact on my daily life. I didn't have the bandwidth to think the way I used to. I was constantly overloading and overwhelming myself without even noticing. Physical symptoms would strike out of the blue with such intensity that I would need to withdraw from things I normally would enjoy. 

I am now back to work and able to spend time with family at large events. My remaining physical symptoms are much more manageable and no longer take me away from the things and people I love. 

I am back to the philosophy that life will always work out. I am able to keep things in perspective and to find lessons and humour in the everyday the way that I used to.

Sara has a way of pointing to what I already know to be true but need to hear. Her approach is unique, simple and light hearted.  In working with her, life is more of a fun adventure and I'm looking forward to traveling with my beautiful wife and spending time with family. Thank you. 

- Greg McDowell, Engineer

I feel alive and aware and love waking up every day to experience a new day and what it will hold. My personal life relationships have improved with all people. I've learned that I can get sucked into things that are out of my control and I'm learning to stay in the present and be aware of what's important. I'm now starting to write a book!

- Kim Schaner, Retired Executive

I felt like I was at a crossroads of wanting to know which direction to go with whether I was going to make a big move from where I am.  I felt tension and worry around it and I had been struggling with it. Then I came across a podcast and newsletter from Sara and I really enjoyed the perspective. Looking and living at life through that lens seemed so simple and I felt like I wanted to know more. 

Working with Sara Joy helped me understand more of life in a way I had never experienced before. 

I knew that how I was doing things wasn't working for me. I knew there was a better way of viewing life. I started to understand that the tension, the worries, were not coming from a place of my true self, instead from my thoughts, my mind and once I was in awareness, I found myself returning to myself, to presence where all of a sudden there are not all these things to figure out, instead be in the moment and see what arises. I find myself letting go more, being more in the moment and curious and trusting to what and where I'm being led to. 

I recently had the opportunity to go on a work trip to BC (I happen to love BC). I said yes to the opportunity, however I had a lot of thoughts and worries around how it was going to go. In working with Sara, I allowed myself to witness what was coming up and realized there was nothing to figure out or worry about. I was guided step by step to prepare myself and it turned out to be a really great experience that I'm grateful I said yes to.

I feel a renewed sense of excitement since I came back and I feel like new ideas are flowing.

I was driving back from my session today and felt bliss...Everything had dropped away. This thing that had been on my mind, just dropped away. I was witnessing my mind trying to pick it up and I felt so Zen, it was too heavy for the bliss I felt, so it just dropped.

It just feels so good.

I feel like I'm understanding that now, how the change starts within, I feel like I’m starting to notice that change within...As I'm noticing and coming back to presence. I find myself liking myself more, I feel I catch moments of peace. And that peace is so precious.

- Helena Kleinsasser

Lately, I noticed that I was spending a lot of time in negative angry thought and I was having a difficult time changing this pattern.

I have been on my spiritual path since the 70s which first started with Sivananda yoga. I have had many teachers, and travelled many times to India to study in the ashrams.

I honestly didn’t know what to expect from the time spent with you. But I am always open to experiencing something new. 

At the end of the first day, I was pleasantly surprised with a noticeable change in my BEING.
This was experienced by a calm, knowing that all is well. The busy mind had slowed down.

The next morning after our Intensive, I needed to visit and help my 106-year-old mother. I always find it very difficult, because we just don’t get along. But this Monday the energy was totally different. I found myself not being so agitated.

The weekend spent with you helped me reconnect to the silence within. I love the simplicity of this work.

Thank you very much Sara.

- Felicity Barrington

I had the opportunity to experience transformative coaching with Sara Joy. I'll be honest, I didn't know what that meant when we started out! Through an intensive process we explored how I felt, how I acted and what I thought.

After our third session, I sat in my car when I got home, and marvelled at the tree in front of me, that I had largely overlooked previously. I was more grounded, I felt better and more open to the world around me.

As we worked our way through the process Sara uses, I became increasingly grounded in the world around me, and better able to find the bright parts of my life. I could better appreciate the things around me that made me happy, brought me peace and generated calm, rather than paying attention to the things that burdened me.

I am so appreciative of the time I've had with Sara and her skill and wisdom in walking this path with me. It has been a true gift to learn and explore life and the spiritual with Sara!

- Lynda Goy-Flynt, Retired Pastor

Thank you, again, for creating the space and time for me.

I never would have imagined this situation would lead to more insight and greater sense of understanding and calm, but then given it's all because of thinking it couldn't have led to anything else.

As I write this it feels like I'm seeing a glimpse of the nothingness so many people talk about in this realm.

- AJ