The Magic in the Middle

Send us Fan Mail What if the answer you keep searching for outside yourself has been living in your body all along? Your nervous system is not your enemy. It is your ally, and it has been trying to keep you safe since the day you were born. In this conversation, Sarah sits down with somatic psychotherapist, author, artist, and ritualist Rose Rita James, author of Tears Are Holy Water: Somatic Wisd...

Send us Fan Mail What if the change you have been waiting for does not take a year, a retreat, or a whole new life? What if it begins with the very next thought you choose? Welcome to October, the month of changing and transforming. Your guide for this journey is Sarah, a certified Spring Forest Qigong practice group leader and trainer who has walked from her own darkest season to a life she descr...

Send us Fan Mail Your phone is not in charge of who you are today. You are. And it is time to take your power back. We just crossed the equinox, equal daylight and equal night, and your body is moving right along with the Earth into fall. This is the season when your lung energy comes on duty, and Sarah is back with week two of the Fire Horse Journey, precision and purpose. In this episode, you wi...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome, welcome, welcome. As Sarah worked in her garden this week, hands in the soil, she felt the season shifting, and it reminded her of something we forget every fall: this isn't a time to shut down, it's a time to nurture. The equinox is here, that perfect balance of yin and yang, equal light and equal dark. In Qigong, this is when our lung energy system comes on du...

Send us Fan Mail There is a feeling you may know well. Scattered. Lost. Like you have misplaced your map in the middle of nowhere and there is no signal, no signs, no direction. Just you, floating, not knowing which way to go. That feeling has a name. Separation. And it is the one thing Sarah wants to talk about today. In this deeply intimate and quietly extraordinary episode of The Magic in the M...

Send us Fan Mail Look around you. The people, the places, the experiences surrounding you right now are not happening to you. They are showing you something about you. And that is the most liberating thing you will ever learn. In this rich, rain-soaked, deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah opens with the sound of a rainstorm pouring down outside her window and the feeling of p...

Send us Fan Mail You have been doing the work. Planting seeds. Peeling back layers. Shining your light even when it felt scary. And this month, September, Penny Makress's intuitive calendar has one beautiful instruction for all of us. Harvest and celebrate. In this joyful, luminous, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah invites you to stop for a moment and actually rec...

Send us Fan Mail You are not just a human having a spiritual experience. You are a piece of God, carrying a light that has always been there, waiting to shine brighter. In this warm, raw, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah brings together some of the most powerful threads of this podcast into one luminous teaching about who you actually are, how much help you actually ha...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is different. And you will feel it the moment it begins. What came through Sarah in this recording was not a lesson prepared in advance. It was a transmission. A message that arrived and moved through her, from the spiritual team she has spoken of throughout this podcast, directly to you. And it is one of the most powerful things The Magic in the Middle has ever share...

Send us Fan Mail You have been taught to push. To do. To give. To make things happen through sheer force of will. But what if the very thing you have been working so hard for is already on its way, and all you have to do is relax enough to let it in? In this warm, expansive, and gently transformative episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah explores one of the most underrated and under teached pr...

Send us Fan Mail Some episodes come from a prepared place. This one comes from a tender one. When an EF3 tornado tore through the Appleton area in Wisconsin this week, it hit close to home for Sarah. Dear friends, beloved members of the Marvelous Qi-Circle community, were right in its path. And while their home was spared, the neighborhood around them was not. And Sarah found herself doing what so...

Send us Fan Mail What if I told you there is someone who has loved you completely, without condition, without judgment, without ever once looking away, your entire life? Go look in the mirror. Say hello. Say I love you. And say your name. Because that is the friend you have been waiting for. In this warm, luminous, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah opens with one of the...

Send us Fan Mail You are not missing anything. You are not lacking anything. Everything you are wanting is already inside of you, waiting to be felt, remembered, and aligned with. In this expansive, joyful, and deeply practical episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares one of the most powerful creative practices she has ever used, the one that helped her find her perfect home in two weeks,...

Send us Fan Mail Summer is here. The days are longer. The fire is burning bright. And your heart is working harder than you know. In this luminous, grounding episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah explores what the season of summer means from a Qigong perspective, and why right now, in this Fire Horse year of 2026, the energy around us is more potent, more creative, and more alive than it has b...

Send us Fan Mail The pause is not a break from your life. It is where your life actually begins. In this science-rich, deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah explores what happens in your brain and body when you finally stop. Not slow down. Stop. And why that single act, backed by neuroscience, is one of the most powerful things you can do for your health, your clarity, your joy...

Send us Fan Mail You are being called right now. Can you hear it? Not the to do list. Not the notifications. Not the rushing and the busy and the go go go. Something deeper. Something quieter. Something that has been waiting, patiently and lovingly, for you to stop long enough to feel it. In this soul-stirring, deeply intimate episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares a spontaneous midday d...

Send us Fan Mail You have heard the saying show people how you want to be treated. But what if you took that one step further and showed the universe? In this warm, luminous, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares the simple daily rituals that have shifted her energy from a lifetime of feeling abandoned, unworthy, and alone to feeling celebrated, supported, and deeply...

Send us Fan Mail You have the track record. You have the experience. You have done hard things before. So why does that voice inside still whisper that you are not enough? In this deeply illuminating episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down with her friend, executive coach, and clinical hypnotherapist Sabine Lehner, founder of Turnaround Practice in Australia, for a conversation that go...

Send us Fan Mail That panic you feel right before you take the next step? That voice saying who do you think you are? That is not a stop sign. That is proof you are growing. In this episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah gets beautifully raw and real about her own nervous system, sharing the panic that still visits her as she steps deeper into this podcast, this work, and the next greatest vers...

Send us Fan Mail You came into this world pure, whole, and worthy of love. No conditions. No performance required. Somewhere along the way, someone forgot to tell you that. In this deeply healing episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah takes you on a guided inner child journey unlike anything you may have experienced before. Not back into the pain. Not to relive what hurt. But into the arms of t...

Send us Fan Mail It was Easter Sunday. Sarah woke up feeling sad, heavy, and off. Not exactly the energy of resurrection. But what happened next was exactly that. In this intimate, soul-baring episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares a deeply personal Easter morning practice that started as one thing and became something she never expected. She sat down to write about how she was feeling,...

Send us Fan Mail What if you stopped putting fun on hold until life felt easier and you have more time? What if research says fun is not a luxury at all, but one of the most restorative tools you have? In this conversation-packed, science-rich episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down with Mike Rucker, PhD, behavioral scientist, author of The Fun Habit , and fellow Chapman University alu...

Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful healing tool you have is already inside you, costs nothing, and works even when you fake it? In this joyful, science-packed, and deeply moving episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down with twin sisters Sarah Routman and Rachael Siegelman, authors of "Discover the Power of Laughter:  Jump Start Your Journey to Health and Joy " a book 1...

Send us Fan Mail You planted the seeds. You nurtured and tended them. And now, in May, it is time to bloom. In this deeply integrative episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah brings together everything she has been teaching since February, 2026, weaving the wisdom of Penny Makris' intuitive calendar into one beautiful, cohesive tapestry. If you have been following along, this episode is you...

Send us Fan Mail What if everything you're longing for isn't out there somewhere, it's already living inside you wanting to emerge? This is the episode Sarah has been building toward. And she's not just going to tell you, she's going to take you there. In this deeply experiential episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah guides you through a powerful mind-body process that...