105 - Resourced Alumni Speak Up
Today, I’m sharing reflections from alumni of my group program, Resourced.
Hear from Joy, Viktória, Katie, Colleen, and Ginny — five women who joined me last fall to reclaim their pace, power, and relationships through nervous system re-patterning.
Along the way, I share mini musings on how to transform your life with simple, 10-minute practices and daily invitations to pause, feel, resource yourself, and choose what’s next.
The next cohort of Resourced begins September 30th. Together, we’ll spend 12 weeks creating the foundation for your sustainable liberation, boundaries, sovereignty, aligned connection, and joy. Learn more and join us.
Episode Transcript
Sarah Tacy [00:00:06]:
Hello, welcome, I'm Sarah Tacy and this is Threshold Moments, a podcast where guests and I share stories about the process of updating into truer versions of ourselves. The path is unknown and the pull feels real. Together we share our grief, laughter, love and life saving tools. Join us. Hello, my name is Sarah Tacy. Welcome. You are listening to Threshold Moments. Generally on Threshold Moments we have mini musings which are often around the nervous system and how different tools might help you through your own personal threshold.
Sarah Tacy [00:00:54]:
A threshold I tend to see as a place between familiar and optimal. The place where what was once known and what once worked may no longer work, but the next step may not be clear yet. And even if you're in a place of thriving, it can be really useful to practice tools that help support the body so that when challenge comes, you have a little bit more ease and it comes almost more habitually to even if it's like literally just to pause before you answer. And so today is a day that is way different than any other mini musing, I believe, because what it is, it's like proof of concept day. Today the carts are open for my 12 week course Resourced and my friend Kate Northrop, when her program opened, she had graduates come onto her podcast and just talk about the program and she's like, I didn't know if listeners were gonna like it or not. Turns out they loved it. And me being me with my little company, I have had the benefit of getting to be with the people during the program, talk to them after in interviews that I did not record, get feedback. And then just before I redid the webpage, I asked a handful of them for testimonials.
Sarah Tacy [00:02:20]:
I kind of wish I had asked more of them for testimonials. And it was so helpful because I don't know if any of you listening are teachers or maybe even in your parents. And you just keep doing the thing you do because you care enough, you believe enough, you love enough, and you do it and you do it the best you can do. And in some professions and in some places we're not given the feedback. And so my program was online and the feedback I could see was that people were coming to the class, that the online modules were being reviewed, that the recordings were being watched, but that was it. So getting to actually ask like, hey, what worked? What didn't work, what would you change? Was so useful. And the really cool thing is that there was very little that they wanted to change. A few of them said, yeah, maybe more breakout groups, which is something we're going to add.
Sarah Tacy [00:03:17]:
We did some breakout groups. It's something we'll add to the last part of the class so that people who feel really itchy around the thought of a breakout group can log off early or they can be a fly on the wall within the group or not even turn their screen on, but listen into the exchange. So that was really one of the only things of like, yeah, more of this please. And I'm going to read to you also say that some of these testimonials were one to. I think one of them was almost four pages and the one that was four pages was so generous in the way that they really went back through the program. Or like, I love this. And this worked for me and this was an aha. And this was.
Sarah Tacy [00:03:59]:
And it was so beautiful. But I was like, yeah, I gotta cut this down, right? I have to cut this down for people's attention span. So a lot of this has been crystallized from the original forms that I would say were even more generous and beautiful. So if you're curious of proof of concept of being in a community who's interesting, interested in learning about orienting to and resourcing the nervous system and what happens when I'd say, like you do the reps and this is not like, oh my gosh, more to do, but they're like 10 minute calls in the morning that people would just listen to on the way to work or first thing when they get up in the morning, or if they couldn't get to it for a week, you skip it. And they have access to it for this group, had access for nine months so that people could do it in their own way at their own time. So Joy Burch is somebody that I met in 2005. We did our first teacher training together in yoga and I think we actually did all 500 hours. So that means, let's see, like one to three different teacher training programs together.
Sarah Tacy [00:05:09]:
And then we went off on our own ways and she stayed in touch and on my newsletter and when she saw this program, she decided to give it a try. She was in Costa Rica at the time and our schedules didn't match up just right. And so I feel like what's really important here is to name that she did almost every single part of it through the recordings, was able to make one live class. And so I know there are a lot of people who are thinking about taking this program, but are like, oh, what if I can't make the live recordings? I don't usually do online courses. Unless I can do the online recordings, that is 100% me. And I've gotten so much feedback from this group that they were so inspired and it was so useful that they did find time on their own, time to do what they could, when they could. And for many of them that meant completing the whole thing. Some of them redid it more than once.
Sarah Tacy [00:05:58]:
So anyway, Joy says, starting my days with Sarah became a grounding ritual I didn't know I needed. Her gentle, bite sized meditations and daily reflections were not just nourishing, they were doable and they actually made me look forward to slowing down. What surprised me the most was how quickly I began listening to my body again, really listening. Instead of reacting from my mind or outside noise, I found myself returning to my own somatic intelligence. And that felt like home. Sarah has this rare gift of merging science and soul, the secular and the sacred. She teaches from lived experience, weaving modalities into something that feels both deeply expansive and incredibly practical. Her wisdom is profound, but her humility and humor makes everything accessible and real.
Sarah Tacy [00:06:56]:
Resourced isn't just a course, it's a return to yourself. And I'll keep coming back. Joy Burch, Costa Rica and South Carolina and this one was from Vicki and Vicki will be in the program again this year. She will be tending to the online community and acting as a layer of support in the chat during our live calls. Vicki is a total source of light and inquiry and a forever student. She is a mama and just really dedicated to being her best self and unlike me, has a big long history in yoga and all of the benefits of that, but also the reclamation that can come from the way we interpret it here in the West. I guess she is in Hungary. So how her experience too of the individualized and the way that sometimes it's calming and suppressing and how this nervous system work is a bit different.
Sarah Tacy [00:08:00]:
So she says. When I signed up for Resourced, I had already explored many books and online courses about nervous system healing, somatic work, breath work and trauma resolution. As a mother and a meditation and yoga teacher, I wanted to deepen my understanding and expand my toolkit, not just for others, but for myself. What I found and resourced was unlike anything else. Sarah's gently unfolding structure offered both depth and freshness each week. Her live teachings, written guidance and daily practices felt like steady threads of support, practical and profound. Her presence in our community space was constant, grounding and wise. Over the past 12 plus weeks I've cultivated a much deeper awareness in my inner world and developed the tools to Ground myself in even the most challenging moments.
Sarah Tacy [00:08:58]:
This is what it's about. It's not that life just stops lifeing, life keeps lifing. And this course isn't promising you that life will only get easy. This is just saying this very thing. Can we cultivate tools and deeper awareness so that when challenges arise, we feel a little bit more empowered? I'm going to go on her testimonial. Sarah's approach integrating not just personal healing, but collective and ancestral resonance helped me understand my life path in a whole new way. I loved connecting with other women from different ages, backgrounds and countries. Despite our differences, we created a space of shared safety, truth and transformation.
Sarah Tacy [00:09:44]:
It reminded me healing happens in community with shared values and authentic voices. Resourced gifted me a nervous system that feels more flexible and responsive. It widened my comfort zone and in doing so expanded what feels possible in my life. Victoria Maxo from Hungary this next one is from Katie Zoe. So we have, I think Katie and two others that I'm going to read from. This was so fun. Katie was a last minute person I reached out to. I'm like, I wonder if she would like this.
Sarah Tacy [00:10:22]:
I wonder if this would be a good fit. And she says, Sarah Tacy's Resourced course helped me in ways I didn't even realize I needed. Do you guys hear the common thread? Maybe I'm not a great marketer. In marketing they say like, tell them what they want, give them what they need. Okay, maybe I did okay then, who knows? Alas, it seems to be a theme that people went in possibly unsure, but like, this might work. And so there is the theme of like, I thought I was coming in for this, but I got this. So Sarah Tacy's Resourced course gave me helped me in ways I didn't even realize I needed. I joined hoping to be a more present mom to my teenagers.
Sarah Tacy [00:11:09]:
But from the very first video, I knew something deeper was unfolding. I hadn't recognized how dissociated I was from my body. A simple exercise of beginning the day in my body gave me a kind of grounding I'd never known before. As I practiced, I could feel the difference between living fully present and living in a pixelated, scattered way, the way I had been moving throughout life before. That awareness alone was a profound form of support. And I'm often going to say, just a side note here, that recognition is one of our best nervous system tools. Just that moment that we recognize a pattern or we recognize the difference between two states helps with our ability to pattern interrupt. And I will go on here.
Sarah Tacy [00:12:02]:
What surprised me most was how simple tools could create such a powerful shift in my physical and mental well being. And while I thought I'd become a better mom, I also became a better partner. Instead of arguing about laundry, I could pause, return to my body and recognize what I truly needed from that place. I had more honest, productive conversations and could ask for support without blame because I had already learned how to resource myself first. I'm just going to interject here. It is so wild that any time that we can add layers of support to our nervous system, the things that feel either or victim, perpetrator stuck behind between a hard place and a rock, when we start to come back into resonance, we can find new ways through challenges. So it's like we can find new answers we didn't know existed, but we can also find new ways to communicate that come more from compassion, working towards connection without losing your authentic truth and even being able to like find your authentic truth in it. Katie finishes by saying, I continue to use these tools on a daily basis.
Sarah Tacy [00:13:24]:
And I think it's okay to say here that even in business challenges, these tools have been really useful for her. So when I say that, it's like, yeah, nervous system tools, I could say help you stay calm, but what if they actually just help you come back into resonance with yourself? An embodied place where then you can speak with integrity and maybe even enough tone and just the right amount intensity while touching into your heart. Right. It's not necessarily calm, but it's aligned, it's attuned to what is needed in that moment. All right, this is from Colleen. Colleen, Gosh. I believe she's a nurse practitioner. She is also LMHC and certified clinical trauma professional.
Sarah Tacy [00:14:16]:
She's working on her second level right now. She has all the degrees. She's super highly educated. On top of all the degrees. She's also taken so much personal development. She is an incredible mother of four, inviting in, adopting another and just like so committed and really truly an amazing human. And Colleen, I could say, is another person who made it to all the live calls she could. And you know, if she missed them, she made them up in her own timing.
Sarah Tacy [00:14:52]:
And I would just say there's no certification here, which is in some ways relief. I saw recently, like, oh, if you do certifications, people will pay more and more people will sign up because when you walk away with a certification, it looks like it's valued more. But what I want to say here is like, this allows for you to do it in your own Time at your own pace, without the feeling of urgency, without the thought that this is being graded by me. But instead it's like your own experience of this in your own life. So Colleen says again and again, I was reminded in resource to pause, feel and choose. You can tell that's also a thing that is like one of the main phrases. Pause, feel, and choose. And I might even now say, like, pause, feel, resource yourself, choose, resource yourself.
Sarah Tacy [00:15:44]:
So from there she says, reminded to pause, feel and choose to sense the difference between danger and fear. Woo. It's big. I've taken countless trainings, certifications and programs, but what set this one apart is Sarah doesn't just teach nervous system concepts, she embodies them. Her language is precise, accessible and fresh, and she models regulation in real time, inviting you to experience it with her. She skillfully weaves high level neuroscience with lived practices, daily drips and group experiences that honor titration and pendulation, making complex material digestible and alive. What struck me most was the sense of safety in her container created through her presence, resonant and grounded pacing which allowed shame to melt and compassion to grow.
Sarah Tacy [00:16:47]:
I left with practical tools, embodied maps, and a deeper sense of possibility and aliveness than any program I've experienced before. Colleen will also be here. So Colleen is going to be in the program again and she will be coming back. I asked her if she too would be a layer of support for me and for the program, which means that when we're on our live calls, Colleen will also be in the chat. So if I say anything that I'm not able to get back to in the chat, I will try to be in touch with the chat during the lives. But if there is anything I can't get to Colleen and also Ginny and Vicky, I believe that they will all be there as layers of support in alchemical alignment. The training I took, you know, I would take the training the first time and then the payment decreases to retake, and then I was asked to come back as an assistant. I did that three more times before leaving so that I could create my own program and really integrate my 20 years of experiences in a variety of fields that really encapsulated what I felt was most important.
Sarah Tacy [00:18:04]:
But I took so many things away from the alchemical alignment trainings, and one of them is the importance of these layers of support. Bridget Vixens, who runs that training, has been an aikido practitioner for, I believe, 30 years. And she said in those classes, beginners and the most advanced students are always practicing with One another, that we all learn from one another that way, and that having layers within the classroom can be very supportive to the whole vibe of the group. And if you imagine a little bit like intergenerational living, where it's not like parent to child, but there is layers in between where you have cousins, you have, like, you know, older cousins, and then you have aunts and uncles and grandparents, and you have all of these layers where it's like the kids, the grandkids help the grandparents. Like the grandparents. There are studies that say they live longer when they're in relationship to their grandkids. And it's these ways that we all really help each other by coming in with different numbers of reps, different levels of inquiry, etc. Etc.
Sarah Tacy [00:19:23]:
All right, last one. You made it to the last one. Congratulations. Ginny Gill is a neighbor of mine. Our kiddos are besties. They met when they were one week old. They are at my house right now. I'm walking outside.
Sarah Tacy [00:19:40]:
I can see them in the reflect. They might be taking nature peas outside that I can see reflected on my computer. This. No big deal. Great. I love this. We live in Maine. This all lines up.
Sarah Tacy [00:19:52]:
So Ginny, for the last, gosh, man, you know, eight years, has been highly, highly dedicated to space holding and is a breathwork practitioner. And I should extend that timeline because she is also a doctor of veterinary medicine who specializes in oncology. So you can imagine the space that one must hold when you are helping animals transition and helping the owners go through that transition with them. A bit like a death doula, right? And with all the science and the knowledge. So Ginny also, you know, took the course. She's taken so many courses. She's a forever learner. And she left me a voicemail of her take on this course, and so I transcribed it.
Sarah Tacy [00:20:45]:
And then anything that repeated, I tried to cut it down. And something that's really beautiful about an actual voice memo is that sometimes when someone repeats something two to three times, you're like, oh, this is really potent to them. This is really important. And there are slightly different nuances with each one, but in written form, it is generally preferred for it to be more precise without any repetition. And so this is the form of me cutting any of the things in between. And I'm kind of wishing, like, oh, it would be nice to add her actual voicemail. But here it is. Ginny would be another person who made as many of the lives as she could, but, you know, couldn't make them all.
Sarah Tacy [00:21:28]:
And again, just felt the course Was really, really easy to and, like, desirable to go back and listen to whatever she couldn't hear during a live. And again, people, I was surprised. I was like, well, maybe it's too much, the Daily Drips. And people were like, can you leave this up? I was gonna just close down the portal when the program was over. So I left it up for nine months. And people really went back and, like, re listened to it and re listened to it. And I had another person who hasn't left a testimonial here. I didn't reach out and ask who I know, like, she's done some of this with her daughter and had her daughter listen to some of the Daily Drips.
Sarah Tacy [00:22:06]:
So Ginny says Resourced is one of the only online courses I've fully completed, start to finish. Even after it ended, I found myself going back by choice, by want, by desire. I still returned material, often using it in breathwork sessions and in daily life. Even when I'd encountered some of these ideas before, Sarah offered them in a way that felt uniquely hers. Digesting, synthesizing, and simplifying a large body of work. So it became both accessible and deeply applicable for anyone who can't make the live calls. The replays and Daily Drips were just as valuable. Having video, audio, and written summaries meant the material was always there, waiting for me, unhurried, a resource I could engage with in my own time, in my own way.
Sarah Tacy [00:22:58]:
I feel deeply grateful for this work, and I'll continue to stay engaged with this container. She essentially, in her own words, said, in my own time, in my own way. And when I wrote to her to say, does this feel accurate? I did add my phrasing because I feel like it crystallized it. In your own time, in your own way. That is something I used to say at the end. End of every yoga class when people were getting up from Shavasana, I would invite them to get up in their own time and in their own way. I might offer some possibilities. And then one day, a student in a class painted me a photo of Ganesh, which is thought to be the overcomer of obstacles, the weaver of science and art.
Sarah Tacy [00:23:44]:
And on the back of it, she wrote, in your own time and in your own way. And this is just so applicable to, I'd say, my life in general. So I have containers where that feels important to me. Nuance feels important to me. Weaving science and soul feels important to me. And I hope that this was useful. I hope that this is an episode worth listening to. I think hearing people's lived experiences that show that change is possible without bypassing that life is still lifing.
Sarah Tacy [00:24:24]:
When Tel Darden helped me to see, she gave me a sheet of the 15 tenets of supremacy culture, white supremacy culture. One of the last ones named was the right to comfort. And I think that I find myself sometimes in this loop when I'm having a really hard time in life. I feel like I'm failing. Like, am I not using my tools right? Am I not this or that? I should. I should be able to do this, I should this or that. And at the beginning of Resourced, we'll also go over Don Stapleton's map called the Cycle of awareness, where it very clearly shows the fertile void and it shows chaos and confusion as part of our cycle. And so I want to normalize that.
Sarah Tacy [00:25:14]:
Being happy, content, and feeling fully resourced every day would be abnormal, but that utilizing these tools for pattern interrupt can be really empowering. I do think in life, we're supposed to get dysregulated. I think that it helps to point us in the direction, you know, like, just saying, like, beep, beep. You know, when you're in a car and you start to go over one of those grids and. And. Or your car has sensors and it's beep, beep, beep, and your car starts rattling, you're like, course correct, right? Like, we're supposed to have those, and we course correct. And then we get to know ourselves a little better, and then we get dysregulated, and we get to know ourselves a little better. But if we're living the majority of our life dysregulated, then I guess it would be a pretty big indicator that it would be so useful to have any access to curiosity so that we might have any access to taking one small step in a new direction.
Sarah Tacy [00:26:19]:
Alas, this course is a weaving of my heart. It's a weaving of my hope for liberation individually and collectively, knowing that we can't do it alone and that it starts with us, and that every tiny step in the direction of your authenticity and every step in the direction of you matter is a big deal. Thank you so much for tuning in. I generally close out with a prayer, so I start by saying thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you to each person who dares to be curious, each person who dares to take the tiniest step in a new direction. And then I'd say, show me. Show me any resource, any layer of support, any layer of comfort, as my body readjusts to that one tiny new step. May I take enough time or have an experience of one rep with enough time to stabilize to try something new again? Surprise and delight me with a life I couldn't have imagined to be possible.
Sarah Tacy [00:27:47]:
Taking a nice easy inhale and a full exhale. Oh, and maybe here I'll promote I would love for you to join me in Resourced, if anything that I just said resonates with you. Blessings. Thank you for tuning in. It's been such a pleasure. If you're looking for added support, I'm offering a program that's totally free called 21 Days of Untapped Support. It's pretty awesome. It's very easy.
Sarah Tacy [00:28:22]:
It's very helpful. You can find it at SarahTacy.com and if you love this episode, please subscribe. And like, apparently it's wildly useful, so we could just explore what happens when you scroll down to the bottom subscribe rate, maybe say a thing or two. If you're not feeling it, don't do it. It's totally fine. I look forward to gathering with you again. Thank you so much.