How do I make a bigger impact without losing myself in the process?
You followed the path. You built the career.
From the outside, it looks like you’ve made it.
So why does something still feel… off?
Why does success feel less satisfying than it should?
Why do you still feel like there’s something more—something deeper—you’re meant to step into?
Why do the old ways of working, leading, and pushing no longer fit?
The old way of working—pushing harder, proving yourself, and constantly striving—isn’t just exhausting. It’s no longer working.
The next level of leadership isn’t about effort. It’s about energy.
It’s not about controlling more. It’s about trusting more.
It’s not about working harder. It’s about working in a way that feels true.
Because real impact doesn’t come from burnout. It comes from alignment.
The Invitation to Return
✔ If you are standing at a crossroads, knowing something must shift…
✔ If you are no longer willing to lead through stress, tension, and force…
✔ If you feel the pull toward something more natural, more effortless, more real…
Then you already know.
This is not about stepping back—it is about stepping fully in.
Not into another strategy.
Not into another set of rules.
But into yourself.
“The retreat was a profound experience—one of the best things I’ve ever done for myself. I reconnected with a part of me I had forgotten, and I came back to work with a renewed sense of energy and purpose.” — Rewilding Retreat Participant
“I have never felt so clear, so calm, so sure. Not because I figured it all out, but because I stopped holding on so tightly.” — Coaching Client
This is not about striving for the next level. It is about stepping into a different way of being.
Not one that is easier.
But one that is truer.
One that asks you to stop over-adapting, over-filtering and over-functioning.
One that leads not to burnout, but to something more powerful than you imagined.
One that allows leadership, purpose, and meaning to emerge—not through pushing, but through presence.
My Offerings: How We Can Work Together
The Deep Exhale - Rewilding Retreat
A 3-day nature-based retreat to pause, breathe, and reconnect with what’s true.
✔ Step away from technology, clock time, and external noise
✔ Reset your nervous system through breathwork, fasting & deep nature immersion
✔ Gain the clarity, space, and perspective you’ve been craving
This isn’t an escape. It’s a homecoming to yourself.
Step away to step back to yourself
The Untamed Leader - Private Coaching for Professionals Who Want to Create Impact without Losing Themselves
✔ Unhook from over-functioning, adapting, and filtering
✔ Learn to trust your instincts instead of second-guessing
✔ Develop a way of working that feels natural, free, and deeply impactful
This is for you if you’re done leading from exhaustion and ready to lead from deep, quiet trust
Through nervous system recalibration, deep inquiry, and embodied awareness, we release old ways of leading from tension—and step into leadership that is clear, instinctive, and deeply powerful.
🔥 NEW: The Untamed Way - A 6-Week Group Experience to Begin to Unhook From Over-Functioning & Lead With Ease
Break Free From the Filters, the Over-Adapting, and the Pressure to Prove—So You Can Lead, Work & Live on Your Own Terms.
Starts April 2025 | Limited to 8 Participants
What Success Couldn’t Teach Me—But Burnout Did
Hi, I’m Sarah,
I spent years succeeding in spaces that didn’t truly see me.
I knew how to perform, how to meet expectations, how to play the role so well… until I started feeling like I was disappearing inside of it.
Burnout wasn’t the problem—it was the signal.
The signal of the slow erosion of my voice, my energy, my presence. I wasn’t exhausted because I was working too hard—I was exhausted from constantly shaping myself to fit the environment around me.
I had no idea that leadership could feel different. That you could lead without filtering, without pushing, without losing yourself in the process.
I learnt that success didn’t have to cost me my energy, my peace, or my sense of self? In fact, being more of myself made me more impactful—not less.
Now, as a breathwork facilitator, IFS-informed therapist, and coach, I help high-achieving professionals unfilter, unwind, and move through work, relationships, and life with deep clarity and ease.
Work With Me? (What’s Different About This Approach?)
Most leadership coaching teaches you how to be more effective. More strategic. More efficient.
But what if the real shift isn’t about doing leadership better—but about leading in a way that feels undeniably like YOU?
This work isn’t about avoiding burnout—it’s about unlocking the way you were always meant to lead, speak, and impact the world. When you stop holding back, everything changes.
✔ I’ve been where you are. I know what it’s like to navigate high-pressure spaces, to feel successful but disconnected.
✔ We go beyond mindset. Talking alone doesn’t shift what’s stored in your body. We work with the nervous system—breathwork, experiential release, and realignment—so the change actually sticks.
✔ I’ve lived this transformation. I know what it takes to move from over-adapting to leading, working, and creating in a way that feels like you.
Because here’s the truth:
The models you were handed—whether in work, leadership, or personal development—were never designed for you to be fully yourself.
But when you stop filtering, stop adapting, and start moving from your centre —everything shifts.
What Clients Say:
💬 “Before I worked with Sarah, I didn’t realize how much energy I was wasting trying to ‘hold everything together’ - taking on too much, not because I needed to, but because I was addicted to being the one who helps everyone (exhausting!). It wasn’t easy to face this and let it go - it was actually terrifying - but Sarah was able to support me through this, using some deep somatic techniques such as breathwork. The shift was huge. It felt like I could finally just be—and somehow, that made all the difference. I stopped rescuing people left right and centre. It was liberating”
💬 "Sarah holds space in a way that feels different from anything I’ve experienced before. There was no pressure to ‘fix’ myself. She listened—not just to what I was saying, but to everything underneath it. And in that space, I could see how I was second-guessing and constantly needing to get it right. I walked away feeling calmer and more sure of myself than I have in years."
Ready to Experience a Different Way of Living & Working?
If you’re craving a way to move through work, relationships, and life without feeling drained, let’s explore what’s possible.
>>>> Apply for coaching (A no pressure application to see if this is right for you)
Do not try to save
the whole world
or do anything grandiose.
Instead, create
a clearing
in the dense forest
of your life
and wait there
patiently,
until the song
that is your life
falls into your own cupped hands
and you recognize and greet it.
Only then will you know
how to give yourself to this world
so worthy of rescue.
Martha Postlethwaite