Healing After Heartbreak & Betrayal with Sara Avant Stover in conversation with Tracee Stanley

When things fall apart, we may need support accessing our inner knowing and inner compass to navigate the loss. Sara Avant Stover wrote Handbook for the Heartbroken: A Women’s Path from Devastation to Rebirth to help orient people experiencing a variety of forms of personal or collective heartbreak and support them in feeling a sense of validation and clarity.
In this conversation, Sara and host Tracee Stanley discuss:
Their watershed moments of heartbreak and discovering betrayal
Different types of heartbreak
Intuition and what we already know before our rational mind acknowledges it
The psychotherapeutic model of Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Bringing our true Self in relationship to the subconscious parts of ourselves created by upbringing and culture
Collective heartbreak
The necessity of processing grief in community
The role of rest in healing from heartbreak
Honoring the cycles of nature
Finding wholeness and learning to trust again after heartbreak and betrayal
Much more!
About Sara:
Sara Avant Stover (she/her) is a Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practitioner and business strategist to spiritual, entrepreneurial women. Specializing in supporting women to discover and fulfill their true potential at the intersection where entrepreneurship meets personal and spiritual growth, she's also the author of The Way of the Happy Woman (2011), The Book of SHE (2015), and Handbook for the Heartbroken (2024).
After graduating Phi Beta Kappa and Summa cum Laude from Columbia University’s all-women’s Barnard College, Sara had a cancer scare, moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand, and, there, embarked on a decade-long healing and spiritual odyssey throughout Asia. Since then, she’s gone on to uplift the lives of tens of thousands of women worldwide.
Having taught at some of the world's leading retreat centers like Kripalu, 1440 Multiversity, Shambhala Mountain Center, Sara has been featured in Yoga Journal, the Huffington Post, Newsweek, Natural Health, and on ABC, NBC, and CBS. She lives in Boulder, CO.
Tracee Stanley is an author, teacher, and creator of sacred containers that honor life as a ritual.
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