Online programs and in-person retreats for visionary women who want to live, lead, and serve from their true Selves.
For the woman ready to embody her soul's work.
INTERNAL FAMILY SYSTEMS &
Women's spiritual leadership
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Lead from Your Soul
Build Grounded Structure
Trust Your Inner Guidance
You've done the inner work. You've healed, grown, and evolved.
But your outer world doesn't fully match your transformation.
Not because you lack strategy. Not because you're undisciplined.
But because no one's taught you how to translate your inner mastery into outer structure—without abandoning your femininity and intuition.
I help you integrate the three essential worlds: the Sacred (soul purpose), the Inner (Self-leadership), and the Outer (real-world structure).
This isn't coaching that ignores your spirituality. And it's not therapy without practical skills. It's the integration of both.
Here, you craft your work and leadership the same way you approach your spiritual practice—with depth, devotion, and trust.
Make decisions from Self-energy, not fear. Discern intuition from avoidance. Lead your work the way you approach your spiritual practice—with clarity and calm.
3. Trust Yourself Completely
Simple systems. Steady income. Spacious calendar—all honoring your energy, cycles, and nervous system.
2. Build Structure That Works for You
Be fully seen in your spiritual depth—without shrinking, proving, or performing. Here, your authenticity becomes your authority.
1. Stop People-Pleasing and Start Leading
I didn't come to this work from a place of having it all figured out. I came to it through my own unraveling.
Growing up, I looked like I had everything together. Beneath the surface, I was struggling — with my family, with my body, with a sense of not knowing how to be a woman in the world. By the time I graduated from college, despite all of my outer achievements, I still felt lost.
Then life intervened. An out-of-the-blue job offer took me to northern Thailand, where I ended up staying for nine years. It was there, through yoga, meditation, and a slower, more embodied way of living, that I began to genuinely heal.
And as I healed, women started finding me. They wanted to know how I was doing it. So in my mid-twenties, I started leading retreats and trainings, and eventually became one of the first people to bring this kind of work online.
That was over twenty years ago. Since then I've written three books, supported thousands of women through their own crises and awakenings, and built a body of work weaving together spirituality, psychology, and business for women
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But the chapter that changed everything most recently came in 2019. After years of building and a real peak in my career, everything fell apart. I reached a moment where I simply couldn't keep pushing. So I stopped, closed it all down, and let the old version of my life end.
It was devastating. And it was the beginning of a deeper liberation.
In January 2021, I rebuilt. Not from strategy or willpower, but from inner guidance and self-trust.
And it was in that rebuilding that I understood, more deeply than ever, what I'd been helping women do all along.
I know what it's like to lose your footing. I know what it takes to find your way back to yourself. And I know the difference between recreating the old way versus building something that actually works for you, from the inside out.
Done dimming her depth. Done delaying her soul's work. Done deferring to others' formulas.
Here's how I came to this work:
This is for the woman who's done waiting.
— Kate Northrup, Author & Entrepreneur
“Sara has managed to strike the perfect balance between hip, modern practicality, and ancient, wise woman wisdom.”
— Jenny Kenlon
“I can hear and feel myself, for the first time,
as an adult.”
— Deb Dawson-Dunn
“For the first time in my life, I truly feel like I belong on this planet. This is a place where you can lean back and feel ‘Ahhhhh’...”
— Heather Asher
“I have gone further with my healing using IFS with Sara, than a decade with talk therapy. ”
Three Ways to Work Together
Choose Your Path
A 12-week group mentorship for established female coaches, therapists, healers, and leaders ready to build work that feels like home to their souls. Integrating spirituality, IFS Self-leadership, and real-world skills — without hustle, performance, or betraying who you are.
Step into her Self CEO
Private, one-on-one mentoring for women in spiritual leadership who are ready to bring what's been growing inside them into fuller form in the world. Integrating IFS, intuitive guidance, and grounded structure — soul to soul.
Mentor with Sara
IIntimate retreats in beautiful locations for women ready to rest, release, and realign. Through IFS, embodiment, and deep sisterhood, you'll return home clear about who you're becoming — and ready to give that fuller form in the world.
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As a Level 3 Certified IFS Practitioner, I weave this evidence-based, trauma-informed healing model into every layer of my work
I’ve grown my business from the ground up—twice—while navigating grief, reinvention, and the deep inner work of building a business that’s not just successful, but a conduit for the sacred.
Along the way, I’ve authored three beloved books—The Way of the Happy Woman, The Book of SHE, and Handbook for the Heartbroken.
I’m also a trained intuitive and multi-certified yoga & meditation teacher, with a daily spiritual practice spanning over 25 years.
I help sensitive, spiritually-attuned women bring their depth into the world — through their leadership, their creative work, and the way they live — without burning out or abandoning who they are.
My methodology blends grounded strategy, ancient spiritual principles, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) psychology.
Hi, I’m Sara.
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For women who refuse to choose between depth and prosperity. Grounded conversations on building lives and work that honor your sensitivity, spirituality, and nervous system—so you can lead from your True Self without burning out or abandoning who you are.
The Podcast for Women's Spiritual
Leadership
her Self with Sara Avant Stover
“Sara is a true gift. The work with IFS has been a deep, releasing, and transformative experience.”
— Heidi Rose Robbins; Astrologer & Author