Hi, I’m Sarah Skinner
A year or two ago, I would have said my journey, like my work, has been all about healing and returning home to Self. And it still is, on the daily.
A ridiculously never-ending process of losing myself to find myself again in a myriad of different ways.
Returning back to slightly deeper roots every time.
But in the last couple of years, the narrative has changed. The landscape has opened out to become more of an adventure. In fact, it was actually always an adventure; I was just too deep in the woods for a long time to find the lightness in it.
My work is based on the belief that things can be better – that freedom from our suffering is possible.
The hardship, disconnection and anxiety a lot of us put up with as ‘part of life’ is an invitation to change something, to find more understanding.
With the power of insight and the ability to attune to ourselves, we can remember our freedom in any moment and return to the lightness of Being.
Initially focused on social change,
I got my Bachelor of Social Science in UCD. As I learned more about myself and the world, I realised that our collective disconnection with our work (our creativity), each other, the Earth, you name it, under capitalism, is actually an expression, or at the very least a mirroring, of our alienation from ourselves. I became aware that individuals make up society, and there is no social change without inner change.
This led me to go on to do a Graduate Diploma and ultimately MA in Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy at the Tivoli Institute.
As well as guiding people home to themselves, I’ve also spent years working with my own connection to myself. Thanks to the ongoing personal inquiry and integration that I’m engaged in through my own therapy, the Diamond Approach school I’ve been a student of since 2019, my Astrology practice and my personal practice of Kriya and Hatha yoga, I have developed the capacity of presence to truly be with myself unconditionally.
To be open to all of life, its agony and its beauty.
And to fall in love with the mystery of the emerging moment.
I’ve come to know that the sense of wonder felt through experiencing life living through us is always available - when we are able to live from this place of openness, connection and play.
Knowing this has not been a one-time discovery, but an ongoing process of unfolding more understanding from different angles and slowly integrating the wisdom into my lived experience through dedicated practices and attuned attention.
Presence and understanding, a remembrance of the freedom to choose and create, brings a deep appreciation for the dance of change itself and a knowing that it’s not about achieving an outcome but learning how to move to the rhythm of transformation with ease and joy.
My insatiable curiosity
has been the fuel that’s carried me through a lot of personal darkness, and the crisis of meaning inherent in the human experience of being alive at this time.
Waiting for the world to change or your challenges to disappear is a waste of your precious life and ignores the power that your curiosity and intuition hold to carry you towards the difference you seek.
For me, the challenges keep on coming, but rather than falling apart in crisis or reacting from old wounds, I now meet them with space and creativity.
We always have the power to choose something different. The challenge is remembering this power is there. Most of us aren’t encouraged in this remembering.
Resourced with the felt-sense of personal connection available in psychotherapy, the undeniable experience of interconnection through Astrology, and the capacity to bring yourself into harmony (or at least presence) with even painful experience,
eventually you reach a point where there’s less seeking,
because inevitably you begin to arrive -
into more boundless freedom and lightness of Being
From there, it’s amazing what can become possible.
