In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara returns to the core of what Reclaimed truly means. She explores reclaiming power and energy not as something to build or earn, but as something to retrieve after years of survival, conditioning, and self-abandonment. This is the shift from healing as recovery into empowerment as embodiment.

Sara unpacks how power is often unconsciously given away through people-pleasing, overfunctioning, self-silencing, and attachment-based survival strategies. She explains reclaiming as a soul-level return — calling fragmented parts of yourself back into wholeness and learning to live from alignment rather than protection.

This episode offers clarity for those who feel drained in love, leadership, or success, and who sense that something is off despite “doing everything right.” It invites you to examine where your energy may be leaking, where your truth has been softened for connection, and how choosing peace, embodiment, and self-trust restores your natural authority.

Reclaiming is not becoming someone new, it is remembering who you were before you learned to survive.

Sara shares more about;

• Reclaiming power as the retrieval of fragmented identity, not the performance of strength
• Reclaiming energy by withdrawing emotional investment from distortion rather than love
• Why love, abundance, and success are byproducts of self-reclamation, not pursuits
• How healing becomes true empowerment when it moves into embodied authority and self-trust

Sara illustrates how narcissistic and high-pressure dynamics train us to doubt ourselves, prioritize others’ emotions, and abandon our own needs — and why reclaiming begins the moment you choose alignment over attachment and peace over being understood.

If you’ve felt exhausted, disconnected, or like you’ve lost yourself while trying to maintain love, safety, or success, this conversation invites you to come back to yourself and reclaim what has always been yours.

Your next step is to join Sara inside The Reclaimed Collective

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In this episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the often-misunderstood phase of transformation known as the in-between space. This is the stretch of time after an internal identity shift has occurred, but before the external reality has caught up. The moment many people believe they are stuck, doing something wrong, or missing a step, when in truth something far more important is happening beneath the surface.

Sara explains why reality does not respond to urgency, effort, or intellectual understanding, but instead responds to integration. She unpacks how change must move through the entire system (mindset, nervous system, body, and identity) before results can sustainably arrive.

This episode offers reassurance for high performers, overachievers, and entrepreneurs who feel the discomfort of pause after expansion, and it invites you to reframe silence, plateaus, and pauses as recalibration rather than delay, and to recognize that the becoming phase is not empty time.

The pause you’re experiencing is not a failure — it’s a recalibration preparing you to hold more.

Sara shares more about;

• The in-between space occurs after an identity shift, not before the result
• Integration is embodied, not intellectual — knowing is not the same as being
• Rushing the pause prevents you from holding what is trying to arrive
• You attract from identity, not desire
• Silence, plateaus, and slowing down are signs of nervous system recalibration

Sara illustrates how passion fades before it renews, how old identities crumble before new ones stabilize, and why patience is a required skill for sustainable growth.

If you’ve been tempted to push harder, rush the process, or abandon the path altogether, this conversation invites you to soften, stabilize, and trust what is integrating within you.

Take this discovery to the next level and join Sara inside The Reclaimed Collective

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CONNECT WITH SARA

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In this powerful episode of the Reclaimed Podcast, Sara explores the hidden receiving wound that lives beneath ambition, success, and self-sufficiency. She shares how many high-achieving, empathic women believe their challenge is manifestation, when in reality the body does not yet feel safe receiving what has already been called in.

This episode explores how survival patterns can quietly persist even after success is achieved. Sara unpacks how burnout, over-functioning, and constant productivity are signs of a nervous system still operating from survival mode, because giving has felt safer than receiving.

This week’s episode invites you to understand that difficulty receiving is not a mindset issue or a lack of self-worth. It is a nervous system pattern shaped by early conditioning around support, rest, and love. Sara explores how this wound shows up in love, money, rest, admiration, and leadership.

This episode invites you to better understand that;

• The receiving wound lives in the nervous system and subconscious, not the conscious mind.
• High-achieving women often use success, control, and productivity as regulation strategies.
• Overgiving, burnout, and difficulty resting are protective adaptations, not personal flaws.
• Receiving requires trust, slowing down, and allowing support without obligation.

Sara also shares personal stories of emotional unavailability, overworking, ancestral money patterns, and how recalibrating her nervous system transformed her relationship with love, rest, and wealth. And, she explains why healing the receiving wound does not mean becoming less ambitious or less powerful, but more integrated, spacious, and embodied.

If receiving has ever felt uncomfortable or unsafe, this episode is an invitation to release survival patterns and step into a new era where ease, love, and support are allowed.

Your time to heal is now. Go deeper with your journey and join Sara inside The Reclaimed Collective

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• Instagram: @sara.jane.garofalo
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• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sarajanegarofalo