Sessions with Sara Cate & Ashley

Today’s episode is a follow-up from last week’s episode about the next choice. Sara Cate + Ashley discuss how big life transitions can sneak up and make you question your intuition. Whether these big transitions are wanted or forced upon you, you are always supported. Just as they always do, they want you to remember to return to yourself, to be curious about the sensations in your body and allow...

“If I don’t make the right choice, then everything will fall apart.” Woof. That statement can be so paralyzing…and it’s exactly what Sara Cate + Ashley are talkin’ about this week! Analysis paralysis…and how every choice we make, is just the next step in our journey. The episode provides personal examples of how moving a little slower, choosing the more “comfortable & easier” choice is sometim...

Sara Cate + Ashley discuss anxiety and excitement. These two might seem like they don’t have anything in common but the two often create the same sensations in our bodies and it can be difficult to navigate which is which. Sara Cate + Ashley bring awareness to the two, highlight their differences and similarities, and provide support around how to navigate your way through. As always, you can be c...

Hey jealousssssy (insert Gin Blossoms song here), we want to talk about why you are here and how we can better access what we need when you show up! Sara Cate and Ashley tackle the topic of jealousy and envy and how unbelievably gross it can feel. They explore how jealousy can become an attack on your self-worth when it tells you that you don’t deserve the thing you are longing for. They also disc...

Sara Cate and Ashley explore the concept of being radically authentic and how that doesn’t always mean sharing everything with the world at all times. Radical authenticity to you might mean having boundaries about what you share and with whom. You are uniquely you and sometimes the world and society asks us (freaking social media) to be vulnerable and authentic but at what cost? Exposing things th...

In this Session Sara Cate and Ashley explore the ever annoying and sometimes seemingly unchangeable patterns of low self-worth. They discuss how these patterns can be destructive to our evolution and conversely what it looks like to understand these patterns in order to start to create shift. They dismantle the shame around why we might stick patterns of low self-worth in our lives. For instance s...

Sara Cate and Ashley get riled up yet again about something they are DEEPLY passionate about. The concept of seeking support to better your mental health is still widely frowned upon and misunderstood in many communities. In this episode Sara Cate and Ashley discuss the different layers of confusion and lack of awareness around mental health services and they explore the power true healing can hol...

In this session Sara Cate and Ashley scratch the surface on the complex experience and dynamic evolution of what it means to be in intimate relationships. They explore the importance of rupture and repair, how to name your needs by first owning them (or even how to figure out what they are), and the significance of having a deep connection to yourself, first. The conversation focuses on how needs,...

In this episode Sara Cate and Ashley create a conversation around the confined masculine(when our actions become abrasive and intense) and the wounded feminine (when emotions cannot express themselves fully). They break down the attachment of masculine and feminine being a gendered experience and focus on the properties and qualities of the spectrum of emotion (feminine) and action (masculine). Th...

In this Session with Sara Cate + Ashley, they discuss what it’s like to find more vitality, to feel more vitality, and why it might not have been available or comfortable to feel so alive. Vitality is an aliveness, not just physically, but on an energetic level as well. Our authenticity, our uniqueness, and our passions are enhanced when we are able to live from this place of fuller expression.  S...

Well y’all…this conversation can be difficult but Sara Cate + Ashley bring a breath of fresh air when it comes to how you can start to heal those wounds left from needs not being met in your childhood. It is highly likely that at some point during your life, your needs were not met by the person taking care of you. This can lead to some pretty significant wounding that deserves the attention to he...

In today’s session, Sara Cate & Ashley talk about how uncomfortable it can be to feel lonely…and how being alone and being lonely are not the same thing. There is so much we can learn about ourselves when we experience these uncomfortable feelings. No, it isn’t always going to be easy, but the freedom that comes on the other side is truly something great.  Sara Cate & Ashley share some per...

In this poignant time in history, Sara Cate & Ashley wanted to spend some time acknowledging the collective hurt that comes from the threat of losing agency over your body. Their conversation around what body agency means is meant to be a beacon of hope, of connection, of understanding. Their passion around the subject is palpable in this important conversation. Body agency is the undisputed o...

This week Sara Cate and Ashley discuss the exhaustion that can come along with committing to doing your own trauma healing, whatever that means to you. Healing fatigue is a real side effect of doing “the work” as we say. They discuss hitting the pause button, taking a break, allowing your body and mind to rest. We don’t always have to be pushing in the process of healing and recovery, we can also...

After 10 episodes Sara Cate and Ashley reflect on overcoming the imposter syndrome from Episode Zero and yet…how that sneaky (insert cuss word here) can still come in when it comes to sharing your authentic voice at any given moment. Sharing your heart, your voice, your soul is terrifying and sometimes we hit the brake pedal when we are feeling insecure and uncertain. This week we talk about ego,...

Woof. Boundaries.  In a world where everyone’s an instant expert on boundaries, it can be SO hard to know what to do, when to set them, HOW to set them, and who we can set them with. The most important thing to remember is that the boundary is for you…not for the other person. Unfortunately we can get a lot of messages that give us the opposite impression- that you’re putting a boundary on someone...

Self-abandonment happens for many reasons. Sometimes we are put in the position where our only choice is to abandon our needs; it is sometimes needed for safety or survival…and this is not something to shame or feel bad for. It’s not a matter of if we self-abandon, because we will- we’re human. The most important thing though, is to remember that you can always return back to yourself. And you alw...

Sara Cate & Ashley have both weathered the storm when it comes to acknowledging and then pursuing their dreams. The journey may not have always been easy, but “coming home” has always been worth it. And the sensations of what it feels like when they’ve returned home is what has kept them going.  Creativity is often where your dreams come alive and this can be so incredibly challenging. In this...

In this episode, we are inviting you into our space for this tender conversation about grief. We come from our personal as well as our professional backgrounds and hold a candid discussion on the complexity of this topic. There are many kinds of grief, and no two experiences are the same.  We are both firm believers that no matter how different our journeys are, talking about our experiences helps...

In this episode Ashley came into recording with an interesting dream, to say the least. Sara Cate took it as an opportunity to walk Ashley through a somatic intervention to process what emotions and sensations arose from the dream. This episode is an example of how a somatic session could look using a non-threatening topic to illuminate how we can process through sensation in our bodies when it is...

In this episode Sara Cate and Ashely dive into the world of somatic awareness and what it means to understand sensation in your body! This episode will provide you with a framework to better understand the sensations that are correlated to your emotions. This episode hopes to leave you with a basic vocabulary that you can utilize to better articulate what you are FEELING in your body. Come explore...

Beginning to explore the internal landscape of our bodies (i.e. emotions, sensations, feelings) may not be fully available depending on what your body/mind has experienced. Sometimes we click out or separate from what is occurring based on how overwhelming a situation is. Dissociation is essentially a management strategy our brain uses to help us disconnect from our bodies when something is too ov...

This podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace therapeutic services of any kind. Please refer to the list of references if you need support. Shame can come from us, it can come from others who have placed it upon us, and it can come from organizations (like religion). Shame can be sneaky, and knock the wind out of your sails when you just had something really...

This podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace therapeutic services of any kind. Please refer to the list of references if you need support. Welcome to Sessions with Sara Cate & Ashley! This episode is our introduction of ourselves to you!  We want you to continue to get to know us as this podcast progresses, but we thought it’d be helpful to have some ba...

This podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace therapeutic services of any kind. Please refer to the list of references if you need support. In this session, we invite you in to listen to the “why” behind this podcast. We both believe so strongly in helping as many people as we can. The conversations in this podcast are fun, and they’re honest. We utilize our...