For many of us, opportunities and expectation on how to live has set a very high pace and a constant cycle of both chasing the next step as well as catching up. This creates stress both physically, mentally and emotionally that often leads to and feeling of overwhelm, unhappiness, and/or dissatisfaction with how we show up in the world. It is draining to feel we are living as a challenged version of ourselves compared to who we know we can be. All humans are carrying some level of trauma or negative projections from the childhood home, school, work life social conditioning or relationships, resulting in limiting beliefs, stories we tell ourselves that lead to coping mechanisms as associations that challenge us and compromise how we feel and act. This in turn create mental and emotional stress and dis-harmony in our physical body that often develop into undesirable behaviour and habits to overcome those feelings.
A common problem is that we blame external sources and others for our stress and do not take personal responsibility for our choices or prioritise taking the time out to really understand the actual reason we are creating the habits and behaviours. These are often blind spots for ourselves but clear to others around us such as:
- Loss of/running out of willpower to create sustain change
- Put ourselves and wellbeing at the bottom of the pile
- Unhealthy habits creep in to mask the sense of feeling stuck
- We avoid connecting fully with the person looking back at us in the mirror
Sara has herself been through this change journey, from feeling stuck and disappointed of not being able to be 'strong enough' to step out of the situation that was holding her back and keeping her stuck in a negative spiral with herself, not knowing how to find a way to get out of feeling dis-empowered to empowered to create positive flow and relationships she has created for herself. However that journey was not easy and doing it on her own was challenging. Turning around and facing change seemed unachievable and therefore slipping further away from getting herself out of what was holding her stuck. She woke up every morning unable to understand how she allowed herself to get to the place she was and what it would take to get herself out. Just willpower was not cutting it and Groundhog Day of disappointment and frustration with herself was everyday. Her own change journey has led her to live a life abundant in positivity, choice and health. She is now living free from self doubt and limiting behaviours with healthy relationship around her and able to create the future she wants taking in each day as a gift.
She started educating herself, learning about the brain and habits to understand the reason why she was so stuck and why nothing could shift her unhealthy habits and loss of willpower. Finally one morning she had gathered enough knowledge to rise above her limitations and come from a place of inner strength to put in place a set of rules of engagement for herself and she has not looked back!!!!
She now runs My Free Mind Coaching helping others get out of feeling stuck and live the rewards of achieving the life they dream of. She has continued to study and research self-discovery and various coaching techniques and methodologies to develop the My Free Mind Platform for Change through an 8-step program with incredible success for her clients.
She also runs the YogaYama Studio and Resolve to Evolve retreat center at Lake Macquarie to support woman and men in their journey of self-discovery.
BIO Sara Stigson McAllister - Owner and Founder
Sara Stigson McAllister is a Wellbeing, Personal Success and Mindset Coach, Spiritual alchemist and Energy Healer, Yoga Teacher & Studio owner, and mother of 3. Sara is dedicated to help others transforming their lives by honing their habits, open up opportunities and paving their path to create an extraordinary life they love.
Sara has since she was young been very independent and hard working with a sense of adventure. When an opportunity came to move to Australia from Sweden at the age of 19 to pursue a career in Engineering she jumped at the chance. 10 years on through dedication and hard work Sara was running large scale construction projects (nominating her for an Engineering Excellence award) when she became a mum and shortly after made a big decision to leave her career to follow her husband to an overseas posting.
The abrupt change, living in a new country left her struggling with self-worth from not working. Despite the next 12 years of an extraordinary journey through 5 different countries and another 2 children coming along, a sense of loss of ambition was always there. When she arrived back in Australia in 2012, she wanted to restart her career but didn’t know how and what to do. It took a toll and she found herself sliding into self sabotage and self doubt. Always capable, social and busy outwardly but crumbling on the inside
In 2018, when a leaflet for a Yoga teacher training landed in the mailbox she felt it was her chance to regain footing in life and pulled herself out of unhealthy habits and reset her boundaries that evoked a deep and extensive self-rediscovery and knowledge journey set in motion by the curiosity of how she ended up struggling when she outwardly was so capable but inwardly crumbling. She realised that unhealthy habits had crept in that was limiting her and made a firm decision to reset her life through empowerment of knowledge. This was the trigger for laying down a solid line in the sand which opened a new world of opportunities, life changing decisions, changes in her family life and most of all a coming home to her true self.
Sara is now a certified Rapid Results Coach, Wellness Australia Coach, The Naked Mind (Alcohol Experiment) Institute Coach, Founding Member of Alcohol Coaches Australia (ACA), Yoga and Meditation Teachers as well as a Spiritual Alchemist and Medicine Room Energy Healer. She works primarily with a personalised 8-step transformational program to empower clients to create a solid foundation for profound shift away from loss of connection to sense of self and core values, long held habits and beliefs that are not serving them and has them stuck. Instead she works to transform their mindset and habits to regain clarity to find balance and purpose and soar with positive energy for the future by identify their highest values, non-negotiables and to find their future vision and the pathway to achieving their dreams. She also works with ongoing weekly and monthly support for clients and other specialised individual programs. Sara and works with clients both in person and via phone or Zoom.
She now lives at Lake Macquarie, has found true inner harmony and is dedicated to helping others live their best life. She is running My Free Mind Coaching along side the YogaYama Yoga Studio and Resolve to Evolve Retreat Center.