Episode 1: Sara Avant Stover on Overcoming Challenges on your Heroine’s Journey

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About Sara Avant Stover:

Sara Avant Stover is a teacher of feminine spirituality and empowerment, bestselling author, and founder of The Way of the Happy Woman.

Sara graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s school, Barnard College. After a cancer scare in her early twenties, she moved to Thailand, where she embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. She has since gone on to uplift the lives of tens of thousands of women worldwide.

The creator of Reversing Our “Curse,” The SHE School, and the world’s first Women’s Yoga Teacher Training, Sara has been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS.

In this episode, Sara shares:

* What challenge she is currently facing on her own heroine’s journey
* How to practice and maintain exquisite self-care as a busy woman
* How to deal with the shadow of perfectionism

“When our messiness, our meanness or our addictions come out, it’s a call to attend to be compassionate, to be courageous to know that this limitation is our next opening.”

What you’ll hear:

2:53 Who is SHE?

5:04 What is The Heroine’s Journey? Where are you currently at in your own heroine’s journey?

13:44 – How to balance needing inward time for healing and business life.

16:25 Sara’s introduction of “speed bumps” as a way to maintain boundaries for self-care and create feminine flow in business.

20:08 – How to maintain self-care.

22:24 “If you want to see the shadow, look at the wake that you leave.”

23:40 How to deal with perfectionism.

29:00 How has sisterhood empowered and impacted you?

25:45 Who is Mary Magdalene and what has she awakened in Sara.

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Resources:

The Way of the Happy Woman
The Book of She
Sara Avant Stover’s website

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