The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

79. Writing the Self Home: How Embodied Journaling Helps Introverts Heal and Be Heard with Sarah Cannata

• Serena Low, Introvert Coach for Quiet Achievers and Quiet Warriors

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In this episode, I speak with Sarah Cannata, creator of Storytelling for the Soul, embodied processing practitioner, and long-time introvert who believes in the healing power of writing. Sarah helps women in midlife and beyond reconnect with themselves through a unique blend of body-based trauma-informed support and embodied journaling.

We explore how writing can be more than self-expression—it can be a path home to ourselves. Sarah shares how trauma lives in the body, why safety is the foundation of healing, and how introverts can use journaling to process difficult emotions, navigate tricky conversations, and feel more seen and heard—without having to perform or pretend.

If you've ever struggled to speak your truth, or felt that your quiet nature holds you back, this conversation will affirm your worth, your voice, and your way of being.

Key Talking Points:

  • What embodied processing is—and how it supports healing at a nervous system level

  • Why journaling is a powerful tool for introverts, especially during midlife transitions

  • How to begin journaling in a trauma-informed way (hint: don’t start with your hardest memory)

  • The importance of attunement, presence, and holding safe space in client work

  • How introverts can honour their energy while still showing up visibly and courageously

  • The surprising role of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in Sarah’s quiet warrior journey

  • Why being visible isn’t about being loud—it’s about being authentic and aligned

Resources & Links:

Learn more about Sarah’s work: www.sarahcannata.com
Follow Sarah on socials: @storytellingforthesoul on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn


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This episode was edited by Aura House Productions

Speaker 1:

Hi, I'm Serena Loh. If you're used to hearing that introverts are shy, anxious, antisocial and lack good communication and leadership skills, then this podcast is for you. You're about to fall in love with the calm, introspective and profound person that you are. Discover what's fun, unique and powerful about being an introvert, and how to make the elegant transition from quiet achiever to quiet warrior in your life and work anytime you want, in more ways than you imagined possible. Welcome.

Speaker 2:

Hello and welcome to the Quiet Warrior podcast. My guest today is Sarah Kanata, the creator of Storytelling for the Soul. Sarah uses journaling and body-based practices to help women in midlife and beyond reconnect with themselves and gently shift how they live and feel. Sarah's work is rooted in lived experience, deep exploration and a commitment to safe, trauma-informed support. And a commitment to safe, trauma-informed support. In addition to being a journalist, she's a certified embodied processing practitioner through the Centre for Healing. Embodied processing is a body-based approach to working with trauma. Sarah creates a nurturing space where people feel seen, heard and held. Welcome, sarah, to the Quiet Warrior podcast.

Speaker 3:

Thank you very much. That makes me sound really impressive what you just read around. I'm like. Thank you very much for having me and for your patience, because I think you may have invited me on this podcast about two years ago and it has taken me this long to get my act together and actually be here with you. So thank you very much.

Speaker 2:

Oh, you're so welcome. I'm so glad you're here, because now we have even more to talk about.

Speaker 3:

Yes, very true, because we've known each other longer now and I think some of our paths have overlapped as well, especially in the trauma-informed space. So I hope that this is a really deep, deep, rich and informative conversation for your audience.

Speaker 2:

It will be, because the first thing I want to ask you is what exactly is embodied processing?

Speaker 3:

Yes. So embodied processing, which you explain in the intro, is a training that I've done through the Centre for Healing here in Australia. So essentially it's a body-based approach to working with trauma. So what that means is trauma occurs in the body. And I want to be very clear I am not framing myself as a trauma expert. There are far better people out there, like Irene Lyon, dr Gabor Marte, so many more who are far better placed to talk about trauma than I am. But what I say is that I'm trauma informed. So what that means is I have an awareness that trauma is subjective. So what that means is something could happen to me and something could happen to you Same exact event. I will walk away traumatized. You will never give it a second thought in your life. You'll just move on. So we're all very unique. Our makeup is different. Some of us have more sensitive nervous systems. It's just the way that we're actually brought up. So with embodied processing, essentially what we do is we use something called a resource. So a resource is something that is either internal or external to us that can help us to feel safe, supported, comforted. Some people will not resonate with any of those words, so what I say, is the opposite of overwhelm, and most people can understand what that means and we use that as our island of safety so that whenever we go back through the EP process. So actually I have to clarify in my business now I don't really do the EP process from start to finish as I was trained. I weave in what you described as embodied journaling. However, I do apply the principles of embodied processing. Really, the foundation of the embodied processing and the foundation of my work as well is that resource, because without safety we can't process trauma in the body and we can't heal. So essentially, the one non-negotiable that I have with all of my clients, regardless of why they decide to come to me, what they need help with their circumstance, it doesn't matter. It's that resource piece Because if we don't have that safety, we can't safely process. Whatever may surface in the sessions as we journal.

Speaker 3:

And then with embodied processing itself, you actually bring up something. So generally there's a trigger as part of the process that people would like to explore. So for example, let's just I'm going to use one that's close to my heart public speaking anxiety. So say I wanted to explore that in the session we would do a resource first to make sure that I have that place of the opposite of overwhelm or safety, comfort, support to travel to. I will add that that can be anything and I've had everything and anything while working with people pets, memories, food, songs and if people really cannot think of anything, they can take themselves off to an imagined place. So we have that resource ready to go and then we basically bring in the trigger and we take it from there and we see what happens. And then there's a number of different techniques that you can do as part of EP. So, for example, breathing exercises, pendulation so basically stepping into the trigger and then trying to step back into the resource so that you're proceeding safely.

Speaker 3:

But essentially, if I had to wrap a description of embodied processing in a sentence or two, I would say that what we are trying to do is to allow ourselves to feel the sensations that weren't able to process at that time in our nervous system, and what's happened is that they're stuck. And then what happens is that next time I go off and try to speak, I get all the feels that I'm getting from the fight flight freeze fawn. People will typically have some kind of understanding of those terms and I'm almost stuck in that moment in time because my body doesn't know that I'm not in that moment. So my body thinks that I am in danger. Essentially. So that's my understanding of EP. But, like I said, I am not a trauma expert. I'm someone who would call myself trauma informed and I don't really follow the embodied processing structure as it was taught from start to finish.

Speaker 3:

So what I do in my sessions, like I said, we have the resourcing piece and then, depending upon what people are coming to me to explore, I will give them journal prompts and I will give them time to write. I might play some gentle music, depending upon the client. As they are writing, I will ask them to feel into the felt sense of their body. So it's not just a brain dump, it's not just a cerebral experience. And then, once they're finished writing, if they feel triggered while they're writing, so I will be watching them while they're doing this and taking note and noticing things like their breathing, their facial expressions, all those kinds of things, and they know that I am there if they need my support, we can go back to the resource at any time if they're feeling overwhelmed. If they get through the journal prompt, we have a debrief and they can share whatever they feel comfortable sharing.

Speaker 3:

And that is essentially the really rough structure of a session, because I do run it a little bit differently depending upon the client. With some people I will use some of the EP techniques, so, for example, deep breathing, the physiological sigh shaking, kind of just depends. It's also very I have found this and I think this has gotten better as I've done more sessions and have trusted myself along the way. It's a very intuitive process for me now, so it's a feeling of what people need, because sometimes they actually can't articulate it clearly in a session. If that makes sense, I'm sure you might get the same thing sometimes with clients. Serena.

Speaker 2:

Yes, I wanted to explore this concept of intuition a bit more with you, because you did mention that you had to learn to trust yourself more in the process. So what was it like initially, when you first started out on this path, in this?

Speaker 3:

business Completely nerve-wracking. I felt like a massive imposter. And, to be honest with you, I have always written. So I've been keeping a journal since I was about 12 years old. I wouldn't have called it embodied journaling back then because I wouldn't have had the language to actually use those words. So I have always known through personal experience how powerful writing can be. So as I grew, evolved, studied journalism I've worked in communications for over a decade now. I started working with clients in my business as well, using journaling. Then I started to discover okay, it's not just me who finds writing and journaling powerful. Other people are having the same outcomes from writing. There's a bunch of science out there that proves what I'm saying, especially around expressive writing. So that element was always there.

Speaker 3:

Embodied processing was really a game changer, and that came about two or three years ago because what would happen I knew with myself. I knew it with clients. We would write, and writing can be triggering, much like any kind of talking or anything like that, because essentially, when you are delving into something that may be traumatic, you're kind of reliving the experience. You're taking yourself back to that situation. And until I actually studied embodied processing, I didn't quite know what to do when people were triggered Besides being there for them, obviously, being present, checking in with them afterwards, afterwards, all that kind of stuff I didn't actually know what to do. So embodied processing was the massive game changer with that.

Speaker 3:

And then to your question, it's a matter of practice. So when I first started with embodied processing and taking people through the process as a student before I became certified, it was incredibly scary, because the thing is you're always fearful that you're going to take people to a place that you don't know what to do and you can't bring them back. So there's always that fear. But over time, as I've essentially, I guess, moulded the process to suit where I see my expertise, which is very much in journaling, writing communications, and then gotten more experience with that I think it's just the more sessions that I've done you start picking up patterns and noticing things, and then the funny thing that also happens is you tend to actually attract people who are pretty similar to you. So it's almost like you're attuned during the session and there's a connection there, and at the end of the day, if intuition fails, you can just ask the person how are you doing, are you okay?

Speaker 2:

I love what you said there about attunement and attracting the same kind of people or people who are on your frequency, because it takes a lot of that performance anxiety out of the equation and that was something that used to bother me a lot trying to anticipate ahead of time who I was going to be working with, what was going to happen in the session, paid ahead of time, who I was going to be working with, what was going to happen in the session.

Speaker 2:

So if your clients are all more or less resonant with you, then you already have that trust and that rapport which makes it so much easier to work in a session where something triggering what has been helpful for you as an introvert in starting and maintaining this business Because I understand you've been in this business for about 10 years now and I saw a Facebook post of yours quite recently which really intrigued me where you talked about the five learnings after 10 years in business and one of the things you said there one of the five was that you said my nervous system is my business partner. Can you talk to us about that?

Speaker 3:

Mm-hmm. So just to clarify, it's been 10 years in business in total in storytelling for the soul, in business in total in Storytelling for the Soul. It's been three years now. But either way, business is business. I've had a lot of ups and downs. I've had three businesses in total. First one was really profitable and successful. The problem was I didn't enjoy it so I walked away. Second one, I essentially gutted by trying to monetize it, so that one kind of dissolved naturally. And now we are on storytelling for the soul, which I think is I'm doing air quotes now the one. Just to give a little bit of background to why I'm saying 10 years.

Speaker 3:

To be honest with you, I had to do my own work as part of the process. So when I did the embodied processing, yes, it was for professional reasons, because I wanted to be able to weave it in to my business, and I was also very aware of what I spoke about earlier, that I've got all these people, including myself. We get to a certain point, we get triggered. What's next? I'm not 100% sure what to do. So there was that side of it. But on the other side it was also very personally motivated as well. So when I discovered EP, it was because I was really essentially looking into mind-body connection to do with having some pretty severe gut issues and I'd gone and done all of the medical testing under the world that you usually do. Everything had been ruled out. I ended up with a diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome. I was told sorry you just, this is something that you're just gonna have to manage Now. I was in my 30s at the time. I'm only 37 now, but that's pretty devastating to hear that because gut issues can be really life limiting. So I knew I had to do something to try to help myself. So that was when I started doing my own research and I found embodied processing, sense of healing, massively supportive community and I started doing the EP work and I've continued doing the embodied processing work along with the embodied journaling on myself and as I've done that, what has really happened has been an unfolding. So I think the most valuable piece of advice I can give to people in terms of business and I know it's a buzzword, but it's authenticity.

Speaker 3:

So I don't show up and play a character anymore which I felt very much like I was doing early on in my business. Especially with the first business I felt I had to be this put together, professional, confident person. I was working in PR at the time, so it was public relations for people who aren't familiar. So it was kind of part of that character and that identity that I had created for myself. These days I'm a lot more appreciative of who I actually am at my core and I am not afraid to say that. I'm a lot more appreciative of who I actually am at my core and I am not afraid to say that I'm awkward because I am. I'm introverted because I am. I'm not always the smoothest of people because that's who I am. So by the time people have consumed my content, heard me speaking, done my training, they know who I am. They know who they're getting in the sessions. They're not expecting some polished, perfect person to rock up, they're expecting me to rock up.

Speaker 3:

And with embodied processing we are taught we're not there to fix people because we're not. We're there to hold space for people. And I truly believe, after two or three years doing the embodied processing work, that is one of the most undervalued, underrated skills and abilities a person can have truly holding space and just listening to people. Not listening to reply, not listening to solve their problems, but just holding a safe container and environment. And it's pretty sad because, if you reflect on the state of the world at the moment, we are more connected technology-wise than ever before, yet somehow we're more disconnected than ever before. People are, generally speaking, lonelier, they're living in their own silos. So I honestly believe, and I know, that artificial intelligence and all kinds of technology is popping up, but nothing can replace human connection.

Speaker 2:

Would you say that being introverted also helps with this idea of? I seem to have lost my train of thought.

Speaker 3:

That's okay. I think introverted helps me in immeasurable ways. I think and I know that I suspect that there is still a lot of, I guess, falsities around what people think introversion is. So there's still this stigma around introversion meaning that people are antisocial, more along that train of thought. It's actually not that at all. It's just you need more time to recharge your batteries and you recharge your batteries alone.

Speaker 3:

You're not someone who's going to be in a big crowd and be able to recharge your batteries. So I actually think being an introvert you may disagree with that definition, serena, so feel free to jump in but I think being an introvert is a massive asset because in meetings or in crowds, I'm actually listening to people. Rather than thinking about the next word that I can get in or wanting to be in front of people. I'm genuinely listening to people and I think, naturally, introverts engage in more self-reflection than other people. So I think we typically have a better sense of who we are, which I feel like in this 24-7 modern world is super important, because if you don't know who you are, the world's going to tell you who you are.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for clarifying there. I think I agree with you most on how you look at introversion. I also look at it as the way my social battery either drains or gets replenished. But I wanted to go back to what you said earlier about introversion and holding space. Do you think being an introvert is what enables us to hold space? Some people may not be so familiar with you know the idea of holding space, but you did explain that it's holding a safe space and a container for people to be themselves, to express themselves authentically. Do you think the introverted side of us is what enables us to hold space?

Speaker 3:

well, I think it helps. I mean, I think extroverts can hold space too, but I think what is probably playing a role in the introversion helping in terms of holding space is that we tend to be observers in the world. So there's a lot of well, I feel that this is true for me. There's a lot of almost a sense of being on the outside, looking in and observing and actually really enjoying. Just this sounds a bit creepy and stalkerish, but it's not. It's just generally really enjoying, just watching and paying attention to how people engage with one another and how they switch on and off, and looking at things like body language as a form of communication, all those kinds of things. So I actually think we're just actually almost sponges for human interaction and then we can, and then, if you add the self-reflection into that, I think that that just makes us really well equipped to hold space for people. Also, just the ability to not want to be constantly talking or not wanting to be the person who has the last word, and just allowing there to be silence and you don't have to have the answer and you can. Just I think that this is actually one of the most underrated things.

Speaker 3:

People are very uncomfortable with silence.

Speaker 3:

If you notice, if you're in a work meeting and you just let the silence hang in the air and you look around, you will find most people are very, very uncomfortable with it, whereas I almost feel like my.

Speaker 3:

I guess strongest relationships are defined by how long I can stay silent with someone and feel comfortable rather than uncomfortable. And, like I said, a big part of the embodied processing training is not trying to fix people, which means you don't have to have the answers. And I think one of the most frustrating things for people because I mean, I've definitely experienced this before is if you're seeking someone to just listen and instead of listening they try to problem shoot for you and that's not what you need in that moment, because reality is no one knows what it's like to walk around in our body, like with our experiences, with our perspective, our lens on the world. That is one thing that is 100% unique to us. People can have empathy, people can experience similar things, but you're the only one in your body experiencing this world as Serena Lowe. That's not going to change, not even with AI, surprisingly.

Speaker 2:

Not even with the AI online therapist nowadays. Yes, I find that interesting because I think it's also human nature that when we encounter someone who's suffering, someone who's going through a difficult time, that altruistic side of us just wants to reach out and help and connect and solve the problem as you say, which isn't always helpful because it depends what the person is looking for.

Speaker 2:

If they're looking for a solution, then yes, they are open to it. But I think it's because we assume and we don't ask that question and we don't clarify and we just jump in and offer solutions and why don't you do this and why don't you do that and have you tried this? Which then, of course, makes the person feel very judged. So, with introverts and writing and expressing themselves authentically, once they have expressed themselves, what do they do with all that? What has that enabled them to do?

Speaker 3:

I think there's a couple of different. I'm going to on my own experience here, because I think the way that I have found writing to be most helpful is in basically practicing potentially difficult conversations with people. I find that if I can, even if the conversation goes nothing like I anticipate, I just feel like writing down what might happen, what I might say if this happens, what I might say if that happens, is incredibly helpful. So one of the things that I struggle with is that often I take time to process. So if you ask me a question unless it's like a black and white, one or two kind of question, if you're asking me for my opinion and for me to draw on my experience or expertise, I like to process and I like to mull over and I like to consider things from all different perspectives. And I feel like in this world in real time, you just often don't get that opportunity to lean into that power of the pause. So I feel like I do that a lot with my journaling and it's especially helpful with difficult conversations.

Speaker 3:

I think introverts sometimes have difficulties expressing themselves just because people jump on top of us before they actually allow us to speak. So I think you know there's all those kinds of things. There's also different methods for what people do with their journaling. So some people destroy it, some people like shredding it, some people like keeping it and then reflecting back, say, end of the week, end of the month. This is a good exercise actually for introverts and asking themselves some really basic questions what is consistently draining me? What is consistently energizing me? Out of those two things, what's within my power to control? If it's not within your power to control, you should just drop it because there's no point in trying to do anything about it. But if you can actively improve your life and do more of the things that are energizing you and less of the things that are draining you, writing can be a really good way to actually recognize those patterns, because most of us go about our day pretty much going through the motions. Let's face it. We know we have to take the kids to school. We know we have to go to work school. We know we have to go to work. At work we'll have our dedicated tasks, we'll have lots of meetings, we'll come home, get the kids dinner and then repeat, do the same thing over and over again. So it can be really easy to get into that routine.

Speaker 3:

So I think journaling gives people space to reflect and also in an environment where they're not going to be judged, and I think that's probably the most powerful thing I've found. There's a blank page waiting for you. It's for your eyes only. You can write whatever you want. If you're concerned that someone's going to find it, you can shred it. I think that that is just so incredibly powerful.

Speaker 3:

And then probably the other thing that I would add to that is it's just so accessible for most people. There's a lot of healing modalities out there and I'm not going to sit here and say they're not valuable. I think I would say journaling and what I do complements healing. Does not replace any professional support or any kind of other practice that people need, but it can certainly complement it. And out of everything, it's the most accessible, and what I mean by that is people need, and what I mean by that is people need paper, pen or something to type with, and they're good to go.

Speaker 3:

I have people who have been living in their car who are journaling. So to me that shows the great value of this work, that it's just so accessible to everyone, and those are the kind of stories that make me really happy, because these people in their car who have found themselves in difficult circumstances and trying times, they can still get a notepad and a pen, use a journal prompt and they can feel into where they're at in their life. And people can use journaling at any time 3am, if they wake up, I mean, you're obviously not going to call your best friend or a counsellor or a psychologist at 3am. Even if you called them, they're not going to answer, let's face it. But journaling is there for you all the time and I think that is the greatest value. Accessibility, I mean. Obviously people can develop their skill over time.

Speaker 3:

I would say to people if you're completely new to journaling, don't start by looking into the most traumatic experience of your life. That's a very bad idea. Start at surface level. Start with things like what made me happy today, what upset me today, and as you're doing that, try to connect with your body as well, because I think the other issue that I see with the people who come to me and they tend to be women in midlife and beyond they don't feel their body until something is going very wrong with their body and their body is basically screaming at them and I've been there too. That's essentially how the journey started, with embodied processing. I got into this work because I had to, because I got to this dead end with my gut issues and I didn't want to live that way for the rest of my life. So often it does take something like that to make us look and think about our life holistically, rather than just running through our list of deadlines, ticking off achievements. All that kind of stuff means nothing when you start having health issues.

Speaker 2:

Do you think also it's the system that is set up in a way that disconnects us from ourselves and from each other and from our own bodies? 100%?

Speaker 3:

And reality is intellect is highly valued in our society. However, I do feel like people are starting to wake up and see that maybe being switched on 24-7 on screens, go, go, go, go go isn't the best way forward to attain the kind of lifestyle that they want. I think a lot of this also comes down to the life stage that you're in. I mean, that's what I found as well. So like if you were interviewing me in my early twenties, this would be a completely different interview, because I was highly, highly, highly ambitious. All I could see was career. That's it.

Speaker 3:

Now that I'm 37 and approaching midlife, things have changed considerably and, yes, work and purpose is super important to me still very, very, very important to me. There are other aspects of my life, like health and wellbeing, and almost at this point again, this is probably a life stage thing, but because I'm at that point where now I'm looking at the second phase of my life, it's almost like everything is on the table for consideration and you bring your wealth of knowledge and experience that you have up to now to make those decisions. I'm sure everyone is different and I think maybe if there is certainly a pressure isn't there and maybe a lot of that comes down to the circles that you're in as well. The other really valuable thing about embodied processing was the community of people, because for the first time in my life, I actually found people who are like me. So that connection showed me that, yes, I do belong somewhere and I do understand. Also, I will say in my situation, I don't have kids and I'm single, so life is basically 100% about me, which is not not the situation that most people find themselves in, and obviously they're juggling multiple things kids, a partner, maybe elderly parents.

Speaker 3:

There could be a lot going on there, but I do think in the modern there's a pressure to constantly attain more. And at what point do you ask yourself well, when is enough enough? If you could spend your whole life just chasing the next thing and I'm sure many people do and everyone is different. If that is what makes people happy, good for them, and everyone is different. If that is what makes people happy, good for them. For me, that doesn't make me happy to just constantly chase materialism and that kind of thing. And I think the introversion has helped with that because, like I said, I feel like introverts self-reflect more Obviously. Journaling is often a reflective exercise as well. So, and the fact that no kids, no partner, if you think about it, it's a lot of time that you're spending alone. So, even though I'm 37, compared to an average person in terms of the amount of time that I spend, on just reflection I'm probably like 57.

Speaker 2:

Now I want to talk about something more fun, but it's still to do with the quiet warrior concept. I hear you have a black belt.

Speaker 3:

Well, I had a black belt many many moons ago.

Speaker 2:

Yes, well, you don't lose the black belt. So I think you can safely say you have one and also you are a super fan of this particular TV series. That's to do with a lot of kicking and martial arts and you know really kick-ass style. That's really different from and I'm trying to picture you with your black belt and doing all those moves.

Speaker 3:

So tell me more.

Speaker 2:

Tell me more about this enthusiasm that you have for Buffy the vampire slayer, because I did remember watching her as well, but I never got hooked to the same extent.

Speaker 3:

How long do you have? I must say I don't know if you've seen it on my Facebook page, but they're doing a reboot now, which excites me very, very much. But essentially I first remember watching Buffy in grade six, so that was like season one. It was on very early, at about 7 pm or something, and then over time, as the seasons progressed, it started getting later and later at night and my parents would never let me watch it in real time and I had a little VHS tape where we taped it and I watched it back the next day VHS tape where we taped it and I watched it back the next day and I honestly think it's just one of the most underrated television shows.

Speaker 3:

That was so far ahead of its time. It had a female heroine and basically I think the genius behind it is that it flips so many of the standard stereotypes on its head. You've got this very small, petite woman who you would never expect could do the things that she can do, and she is essentially the slayer and the chosen one and the things that big, scary monsters are afraid of at night, and the way that Buffy works is that a lot of the things that surface in the show are actually metaphors for real life. So like, for example, in seasons one to three, Buffy and her friends go to high school and Sunnydale, which is the place where the high school is, is on the hell mouth. Now, for most of us, high school was hell, right. So that's just one example of a metaphor.

Speaker 3:

In later seasons so one of Buffy's best friends is Willow and basically Willow ends up getting addicted to magic and she becomes evil Willow. I'm laughing because it does actually sound comical when you explain it to people like that. But you know you can swap the magic addiction for any other addiction that people generally have on this planet, which anything can be an addiction. So I just think it was so far ahead of its time and, to be honest with you, I think I've become more of a super fan as I've aged and watched things back, because I remember watching things at the time and feeling a certain way. But then watching them back as a 37-year-old I'm like, yeah, it's totally, totally different, totally, totally different. Where else would you like me to go? I feel like I could talk all day well.

Speaker 2:

I think that's a perfect way to wrap up, because we are talking to introverts, we're talking to quiet achievers. They have aspirations of being that quiet warrior who, at the time that they need to, can express themselves authentically, like we talked about, can be courageous, can have those difficult conversations, and you talked about how embodied writing can actually help them process, maybe even prepare for that difficult conversation. We've talked about how, how society can underestimate the quiet ones, the ones who don't look like they could wreak as much havoc as they can, who are actually really, really powerful, but most of the time they just walk on, they just live their lives quietly until something requires them to step up. And that really is the concept of the podcast that there are times when we feel called or are called to rise up into something greater than what we think we're capable of, and usually that's in service to something that's bigger than ourselves.

Speaker 2:

I find that when we're all self-focused, we get that performance anxiety and we're worried about getting it wrong, worried about being judged.

Speaker 2:

But when something bigger is at stake like you know, with Buffy and all the demons that she slays when it's for somebody else, when you're trying to rescue or save a loved one or protect a loved one.

Speaker 2:

I think that's when that warrior energy or that warrior side of us comes out, and so what I'm trying to do, also with the podcast, is to encourage more of that warrior side to show itself at the right time, so that we're not just saying, oh, I'm an introvert, so I can't do public speaking, I'm an introvert so I can't sell and I can't promote myself. We're saying, no, I'm wired this way. Yes, I may be reluctant to do it, it might make me a little bit nervous, but if I have to do it I can, and I know what the purpose is, that I'm doing it, which is important, because you talked a lot about purpose as well, and I think that having that clarity around why we do things, why we engage in uncomfortable conversations or difficult interactions, is really important for the introvert that wants to be visible and want to make an impact in the world.

Speaker 3:

Yeah, I agree, and I think one of the most important things as an introvert to learn is that I have to work to grow my capacity to be okay with being uncomfortable and being uncomfortable is not a bad thing. And, going back to what you said earlier, at a certain point the why and the message becomes more important to you and, I guess, drives you and pulls you more than the fears do, and I think that's essentially the tipping point for most people. That doesn't mean that things still aren't challenging. They are. I am never going to be Oprah Winfrey and love public speaking. That's not who I am. But because I truly believe in embodied journaling and the work that I'm doing, I can get myself to a level where I can be okay with it and I can think of. Well, if I reach one or two introverts and they start journaling as a result of this podcast, it was worth putting myself on the line A hundred percent.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful. I love that spirit. So where can people find you and connect with you, Sarah?

Speaker 3:

So my website is the best place, so it's sarahcanadacom. I'm sure you have it in the show notes so I won't spell my last name and then all across social media, you can either Google my name or Storytelling for the Soul Facebook, instagram, linkedin. I'm everywhere, basically.

Speaker 2:

And can I say how super visible you are across socials for someone who says you're an introvert, you like to be private, but because there is a message that you want to share and you want to impact and inspire other people, it's worth putting yourself out there, putting yourself on the line. I love that courage and I love that visibility of yours. That's done consistently and consciously. So thank you for coming on the show today and make sure you check out Sarah's links in the show notes so that you can get in touch with her. If you're interested in finding out more about her embodied journaling work and if you've enjoyed this conversation and want more like this, make sure to leave a five-star rating and review so that the Quiet Warrior podcast can reach more introverts around the world. See you on the next episode.

Speaker 2:

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