The Magic in the Middle
The Magic in the Middle is a weekly podcast where science meets spirituality—and life begins to flow with greater joy, clarity, and ease.
Hosted by Sarah Adams Marr Dumas, this show explores the “middle” the space, the void, between effort and ease, logic and intuition, science and soul. It’s in this space that inner wisdom rises and real transformation happens.
Each episode offers thoughtful reflections and grounded insights to help you reconnect with yourself, trust your inner guidance, and allow life to unfold more naturally. As you learn to meet yourself in the middle, decisions feel clearer, energy shifts, and life begins to feel lighter, richer, and more aligned.
This podcast is for curious, open-hearted people who know there is more available in life; more joy, more abundance, more ease and want to live a life that feels truly wonderful from the inside out.
This is living The Magic in the Middle.
New episodes drop every Monday.
Episodes
40 episodes
Ep 37: Becoming Your Own Oracle: The Nervous System, Ritual, and the Intelligence of the Body
What if the answer you keep searching for outside yourself has been living in your body all along?Your nervous system is not your enemy. It is your ally, and it has been trying to keep you safe since the day you were born. In this conver...
Ep 36: Transformation Starts With One Thought: Your Life Can Change in a Single Moment
What if the change you have been waiting for does not take a year, a retreat, or a whole new life? What if it begins with the very next thought you choose?Welcome to October, the month of changing and transforming. Your guide for this jo...
Ep 35: Take Your Power Back, Then Choose Contentment: A Fire Horse Journey
Your phone is not in charge of who you are today. You are. And it is time to take your power back.We just crossed the equinox, equal daylight and equal night, and your body is moving right along with the Earth into fall. This is the seas...
Ep 34: The Art of Letting Go: A Fall Equinox Practice for Your Lungs and Your Life
Welcome, welcome, welcome. As Sarah worked in her garden this week, hands in the soil, she felt the season shifting, and it reminded her of something we forget every fall: this isn't a time to shut down, it's a time to nurture.The equino...
Ep 33: You Are Never Alone: A Message of Oneness From the Other Side
There is a feeling you may know well. Scattered. Lost. Like you have misplaced your map in the middle of nowhere and there is no signal, no signs, no direction. Just you, floating, not knowing which way to go.That feeling has a name. Sep...
Ep 32: The Mirror Never Lies: What Your Life Is Reflecting Back to You Right Now
Look around you. The people, the places, the experiences surrounding you right now are not happening to you. They are showing you something about you.And that is the most liberating thing you will ever learn.In this rich, rain-soa...
Ep 31: Harvest and Celebrate: It Is Time to Honor How Far You Have Come
You have been doing the work. Planting seeds. Peeling back layers. Shining your light even when it felt scary. And this month, September, Penny Makress's intuitive calendar has one beautiful instruction for all of us.Harvest and celebrat...
Ep 30: You Are the Light: How to Peel Back the Layers and Let Your God Self Shine
You are not just a human having a spiritual experience. You are a piece of God, carrying a light that has always been there, waiting to shine brighter.In this warm, raw, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah bring...
Ep 29: A Message From the Other Side: What Your Spiritual Team Wants You to Know Right Now
This episode is different. And you will feel it the moment it begins.What came through Sarah in this recording was not a lesson prepared in advance. It was a transmission. A message that arrived and moved through her, from the spiritual ...
Ep 28: The Art of Receiving: How to Finally Let the Good In
You have been taught to push. To do. To give. To make things happen through sheer force of will. But what if the very thing you have been working so hard for is already on its way, and all you have to do is relax enough to let it in?In t...
Ep 27: When the Ground Moves: Finding Your Center, Your Strength, and Each Other After Devastation
Some episodes come from a prepared place. This one comes from a tender one.When an EF3 tornado tore through the Appleton area in Wisconsin this week, it hit close to home for Sarah. Dear friends, beloved members of the Marvelous Qi-Circl...
Ep 26 You Have Been Waiting Your Whole Life to Meet This Friend
What if I told you there is someone who has loved you completely, without condition, without judgment, without ever once looking away, your entire life?Go look in the mirror. Say hello. Say I love you. And say your name.Because th...
Ep 25 It Is Already Inside You: The Alignment Practice That Brings Everything You Want Into Being
You are not missing anything. You are not lacking anything. Everything you are wanting is already inside of you, waiting to be felt, remembered, and aligned with.In this expansive, joyful, and deeply practical episode of The Magic in the...
Ep 24 Summer and the Heart: How to Ride the Fire Energy of This Season Without Burning Out
Summer is here. The days are longer. The fire is burning bright. And your heart is working harder than you know.In this luminous, grounding episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah explores what the season of summer means from a Qigong ...
Ep 23 The Science of the Pause: What Dr. James Doty Taught Us About Rewiring Your Brain and Receiving the Magic
The pause is not a break from your life. It is where your life actually begins.In this science-rich, deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah explores what happens in your brain and body when you finally stop. Not slow d...
Ep 22 The Magic Is in the Pause: How to Hear What Is Calling You From Within
You are being called right now. Can you hear it?Not the to do list. Not the notifications. Not the rushing and the busy and the go go go. Something deeper. Something quieter. Something that has been waiting, patiently and lovingly, for y...
Ep 21 Show the Universe How You Want to Be Treated: The Self-Love Practice That Changes Everything
You have heard the saying show people how you want to be treated. But what if you took that one step further and showed the universe?In this warm, luminous, and deeply personal episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares the simple ...
EP 20 Below the Surface: Why High Achievers Doubt Themselves and What Actually Shifts It with Sabine Lehner
You have the track record. You have the experience. You have done hard things before. So why does that voice inside still whisper that you are not enough?In this deeply illuminating episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down wit...
Ep 19 Growing Pains Are Good: How to Calm Your Nervous System and Grow Beyond Your Edges
That panic you feel right before you take the next step? That voice saying who do you think you are? That is not a stop sign. That is proof you are growing.In this episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah gets beautifully raw and real a...
EP 18 Love Is Your Birthright: A Guided Inner Child Healing Practice to Set Your Light Free
You came into this world pure, whole, and worthy of love. No conditions. No performance required. Somewhere along the way, someone forgot to tell you that.In this deeply healing episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah takes you on a gu...
Ep 17 I Have Risen: The Easter Morning I Mourned My Old Self and Found My Light
It was Easter Sunday. Sarah woke up feeling sad, heavy, and off. Not exactly the energy of resurrection.But what happened next was exactly that.In this intimate, soul-baring episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah shares a deepl...
Ep 16 Make Fun a Habit: Mike Rucker, PhD on the Science of Joy, Play, and Living Fully
What if you stopped putting fun on hold until life felt easier and you have more time? What if research says fun is not a luxury at all, but one of the most restorative tools you have?In this conversation-packed, science-rich episode of ...
Ep 15 Laughter Is Your Superpower: Twin Sisters Sarah Routman and Rachael Siegelman on the Science of Choosing Joy
What if the most powerful healing tool you have is already inside you, costs nothing, and works even when you fake it?In this joyful, science-packed, and deeply moving episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah sits down with twin sisters...
Ep 14 Blooming and Brightening: How Five Months of Inner Work Are Finally Coming Into Flower
You planted the seeds. You nurtured and tended them. And now, in May, it is time to bloom.In this deeply integrative episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah brings together everything she has been teaching since February, 2026, weaving...
Ep 13 You Are the Magic: How to Feel Into the Life You're Already Calling In
What if everything you're longing for isn't out there somewhere, it's already living inside you wanting to emerge?This is the episode Sarah has been building toward. And she's not just going to tell you, she's going to take you there.