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Unpacking with Sarah
Hosted by Sarah Westbrook · EN
Unpacking is in the title of the show and it applies to all of us; being self-aware requires us to be critical of unhelpful patterns, but we also have to give credit and forgive ourselves as well. Understanding why you did what you did, is extraordinarily helpful.
Sarah an ex-Mo and licensed counselor on a journey to unpack Mormonism and other religious trauma is joined by her husband Mason, a former bishop and active member of the Mormon church.
Sarah and Mason have been married for 23 years and have 7 children together. Sarah is an author, podcast personality and counsels in her private practice. Mason is a retired Army officer and registered nurse anesthetist.
We hope our show will demonstrate how to communicate with respect on difficult topics that we don't always agree about; but still take time to have a chuckle about our personal foibles and peeves. This is of supreme importance as we learn about ourselves.
Using the lessons in our podcasts, you will learn how to become your authentic self and that you can still be in a good place, even with changes to make in your life.
We love hearing from you, drop us a line and let us know how your heart and head are doing. daisygirlcommunications@gmail.com
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Unpacking with Sarah - Session 3A - Top Down/Bottom Up
Nov 11, 202400:14:37Tap to summarizeNot like that you dirty birdy. Get on the mental health fitness path with us and maybe we can get our brains under some control, you dig?
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Unpacking with Sarah - Session Three - Feel your F&@king Feelings
Oct 28, 202400:16:59Tap to summarize"If Sarah is feeling rage or anger, what that normally looks like for me is that in my forehead, I get really tight or my face will get really hot. My jaw gets clenched. I tend to like grind my teeth when I'm angry. or frustrated or definitely when I'm raging I don't feel like I can swallow as much so my mouth will fill up with a lot of spit my chest will be pounding like I can hear and feel my heart my biceps my arms my hands they all start to shake I tend to or want to hit punch throw things when I'm in a rage. My stomach gets really hot and tight, like I can feel automatic indigestion. It's like my body becomes hyper aware of that. My knees and legs actually feel kind of weak, which might seem off. You know, a lot of people are like, oh, I get a surge of energy all through my body so that I can run in whatnot I don't get that in my legs I tend to get really weak and in my upper body I get that energy which is probably like throwing hitting punching uh I am a fighter when I get angry so I utilize my words the most I notice that my back will get stiff and sore but my bum so here we've got our bum and our groin we do have a lot of nerve endings there..."
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Unpacking with Sarah - Session 2
Oct 21, 202400:16:32Tap to summarizeFrom Georgetown University: Neuroscience, also known as Neural Science, is the study of how the nervous system develops, its structure, and what it does. Not only is neuroscience concerned with the normal functioning of the nervous system, but also what happens to the nervous system when people have neurological, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. From the Braive YouTube channel https://youtu.be/jEHwB1PG_-Q?si=kTaBP94za40rSwAc
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Unpacking with Sarah - Session One
Oct 14, 202400:05:41Tap to summarizeAuto generated transcript of this episode: Hello, and welcome to Unpacking with Sarah. I'm your host, Sarah Westbrook, a licensed professional counselor in multiple states, here to talk about what we're going to be doing with our new show. So grab a coffee and sit down with us. Our goal is to, excuse me, broadcast live every Thursday morning at nine o'clock central. And as you can see from behind me, we are broadcasting from my farm. This is my actual front yard of the farm, the Daisy Girl Wellness and Rehabilitation Farm, which we can talk about at another time. I also wanted to wish everybody a happy Fourth of July. So this is if you're watching this later, it is July Fourth of twenty twenty four. It is Independence Day here in the United States. That's my Independence Day. Cowgirl hat. I'm going to be out riding here after we're done recording. I am deeply, deeply grateful for the sacrifices of the men and women who made it so that we could live a very privileged life here in the United States. I have had the opportunity to travel to multiple areas across the world, and we truly are a blessed country. we truly do have many privileges that people in other parts of the world do not. So thank you to our men and women in arms, those and those who support those families, both from the distant past and today. Very, very, very grateful for your sacrifice. So what is unpacking with Sarah all about? So as I said before, professional counselor. And the things that I see for a lot of my clients is they'll come out, they're making great strides, they're making progress, but one hour dedicated a week to driving to counseling, sitting through counseling, driving back to work or home. So it ends up being a two hour ordeal both ways. And the cost, the going cost right now for if you're a cash pay client or counseling is anywhere from about a hundred to a hundred and eighty dollars an hour session. There are so many of us who just can't afford that. I mean, I'll be honest, me paying cash outright for counseling would make my access very limited and I'm crazy busy. So even the time commitment can be very, very difficult. I'm here to bridge that gap. I the other thing I notice in counseling is that oftentimes and other podcasts is we get a lot of theory. We get a lot of really great ideas, but we miss the application piece. We don't necessarily know automatically how to turn those ideas into action. into something that is usable, something that we can apply in our day-to-day lives. And so, again, we're here to bridge that gap. I want to, again, dedicate today's introduction to freedom, but I want to dedicate it to the freedom from maladaptive thought and behavioral patterns. We all have them. myself included. And I want us to be able to learn skills, understand the theory, and then apply them in such a way that we can release these patterns that are no longer serving us well. Those things that, you know, we have really great intentions. We've got, you know, they're genuine. We want self-improvement. And our outcomes just aren't meeting the goals or the hopes that we had desired. And so I'm here to help you do that and to give you this podcast, this, you know, weekly wisdom that will help you go from the, I understand all of this content I'm hearing and put it into practice in your daily lives. I have worksheets that are coming. We're going to have the how-tos. We're going to break it all down very simply, the same way I would for my clients in session. So you're going to be able to access a lot of these resources. at low or no cost to you. The things that I'm teaching you here for educational purposes, only if you are working with a personal care provider, I want you to be able to take the things that you learn here, the worksheets that you're gaining from here that we will make downloadable for you to your counseling sessions or to your group sessions or your life coaching or wherever it is to your personal care providers. and apply this or add it to what they are doing. If you find that it is meaningful to you, well, then let's use it. I am a buffet. You do not have to eat everything on the menu. Take what works for you, leave what doesn't. I am super excited to start this project. We will, and hopefully, fingers crossed, about eighteen months to two years, release the workbook that this podcast is helping us create. So you will be able to buy that anywhere books are sold. And that is the goal, that we start these podcasts, we get our audience's feedback, and then we put all of the skills that really resonate best with you, with the audience, into a book that you can share with your friends and family, things that you can do at home. So please join me on our mission to self-improvement through learning, growing and becoming who you really want to be, your true authentic self. Thanks so much for joining me today. Enjoy that morning coffee and fireworks later this evening. We'll see you next week. Bye-bye.
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239 - I Sh*t You Not - Secret Lives of Mormon Housewives
Oct 7, 202401:00:57Tap to summarizeFrom IMDB: "Reality show about swingers who happen to be Mormon wives." Please do check out our YouTube channel for all of our content, starring the coolest couple in the podcast game today. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwxhOGfI9QWo40uHBgS8nw
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237 - Replace Certainty With Curiosity
Sep 9, 202401:40:22Tap to summarizeFrom lynsmithgregory.com "What is the cost of autonomy and freedom? How is family loyalty and identity defined? How do we heal from past trauma and move past it, especially if we want to stay connected to our family? I share what I've learned about family estrangement and my family's journey to healing and wholeness." Blog- Heratic survivor: from Mormon to me https://lynsmithgregory.com/blog/ No man Knows my history by Fawn Brodie. https://www.amazon.com/No-Man-Knows-My-History/dp/0679730540/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XU95H46SYUQW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.aOS47w6eAYEu9MGrdfV5hQLnxWuEH-TY1XBxOOqeEnFFYPluwuHTSDRBfdzKHWwIXq3C1SGzVawyfj_fvVDy7CpPeu0_b10e92IQ2_9MUmE_wrGC2MqGOi_3U04L7Q9zSFX3mWgmvkaCJPzzR_LSmdabN1GKoYnuhVkRMRPiDh7ICGyCD5Zra00xDd5H4zjgS5eDEA3QAZuyJQ-hCWmN6z8TAcClv9xYkZHwdoE-jYA.HceWmw8MhXKVO2LIFqe2eWrim5JyYT6wJhIbE4OYArg&dib_tag=se&keywords=no+man+knows+my+history&qid=1722777953&sprefix=no+man+knows+my+history%2Caps%2C134&sr=8-1 Come as you are by Emily Nagowski. https://www.amazon.com/Come-You-Are-Surprising-Transform/dp/1982165316/ref=sr_1_1?crid=178HBT8Y8HGOJ&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.MUU7P500f-I-uEetnuNKfL8ICFqDLSWstOMNKoQLq0sGn7-PTk73ysgLeE5O4155wbau1Aun_Ai01BOlrVDaKI9RBh3pk03NxrFasgzEjA7_I3ynZ-bcBUZ7WSZWVlPMmAHDIMyidIi-JenmtRheIGMyDlt0CpGplgVsaAIXT7Dzc0emrP7Ukgt3tOegJmOQOfbG5C_Lpwsc-251lydswg7UocTlsg9aSTeJQvjys1U.5b0kPwwLs9-V-ndtAQD-cjx4saYLGJ5Lg4qN19h7TBA&dib_tag=se&keywords=come+as+you+are+by+emily+nagoski%2C+ph.d&qid=1722778017&sprefix=come+as+you+%2Caps%2C133&sr=8-1 Come together by Emily Nagowski https://www.amazon.com/Come-Together-Science-Creating-Connections/dp/0593500822/ref=sr_1_1?crid=A9EHML96VEEK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.sZ3DEDRnUISgyeIJHrrVrv_4MfUldINnt7vHwCx1KAla8yjOJ5DQ3jIHyqEOP9qFAtcdTlXX7Y5b6FbEVMD3OwKq0TW4WLFIA3DIhDNVaV4.lidtXuSdmjj7ejdaN6Bu4xVA-eRVA47teO07Y69SjyQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=come+together+by+emily+nagoski%2C+ph.d&qid=1722778081&sprefix=come+together+by+emily+nagoski%2C+ph.d%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-1 Unpacking Mormonism and other religious trauma. Episode #3- school thy feelings. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nl42H0jotvAyfry4RHajy Unpacking Mormonism and other religious trauma. Episode #2- Your brain is not your enemy. https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nl42H0jotvAyfry4RHajy
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236 - White Prophet, White Privilege, White God, WTF?!?
Aug 26, 202401:11:32Tap to summarizeYou were born with privilege. If that makes you feel a certain way, guess what? It's time to get to the unpacking. Is privilege your fault? No, but as with everything in life, there comes responsibility. We didn't ask for it, but here we are, together on this wild, living, organic spaceship hurtling through space at unfathomable rates of speed. So let's get to work; start with clicking the play button, and the rest is up to you. The best place to enjoy our sweet, high-demand religion jams and Sarah's weekly mental health fitness livestream is on YouTube. You can watch or just listen; the world is your oyster. Mormonism Live #188 The Fake Mormon Race Apology w/ Jon Streeter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_jC0Wkx3vI Brene Brown Unlocking Us Podcast: With Harriet Lerner. https://brenebrown.com/podcast/harriet-lerner-and-brene-im-sorry-how-to-apologize-why-it-matters-part-1-of-2/ Brene Brown Unlocking Us Podcast: With Ibram Kendi. https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-ibram-x-kendi-on-how-to-be-an-antiracist/ Brene Brown Unlocking Us Podcast: With Emmanuel Acho. https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-emmanuel-acho-on-uncomfortable-conversations-with-a-black-man/ Doctrine and Covenants 58: 43; Official Declaration 1 and 2 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/58?lang=eng Isaiah 1:18 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/ot/isa/1?lang=eng
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235 - I Sh*t You Not - Part 3 - The Prophet Lies
Aug 12, 202401:12:38Tap to summarizeHere we are; it's Monday morning, and we are unpacking more lies and deceit perpetrated by the villains in our story. As we approach our third anniversary, we here at the Daisy Girl Labs are so proud of our work in illuminating how we have been taken advantage of for reasons that were not entirely true or, at a minimum, not forthright. We are humbled and honored that you have chosen to take this journey with us, no matter how deeply you believe or don't believe in a system of faith. We are all trying to be our best selves; every day is new day on that journey. A new day and a new way. Take advantage of our live videos and Sarah's insightful content on managing our emotions. Her psycho-education-focused approach provides valuable tools for personal growth and well-being. Join us in learning, evolving, and cultivating the best versions of ourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87NV4QtGAM D&C Section 132 (section heading); Official Declaration #1 https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132?lang=eng Elder Ballard and Elder Oaks- https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/church/news/apostles-answer-questions-about-standards-doubts-during-ysa-face-to-face?lang=eng Joseph Smith- What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/search?facet=all&lang=eng&page=1&query=what+a+thing+it+is+for+a+man+to+be+accused+of+committing+adultery%2C+JOseph+smith Mormonism Live Episode 035: Will the real apostle please stand up! https://mormonismlive.org/2021/08/mormonism-live-035-will-the-real-apostle-please-stand-up/ Mormonism Live Episode 040: Symphony of LGBT misdirection and Mr Holland Dopus https://mormonismlive.org/2021/09/mormonism-live-040-symphony-of-lgbt-mis-direction-mr-holland-dopus/ Mormonism Live Episode 069: Gaslighting from Mormon leadership https://mormonismlive.org/2022/03/mormonism-live-069-gaslighting-from-mormon-leadership/
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234 - I Sh*t You Not - Part 2 - Stay Silent
Jul 29, 202400:54:52Tap to summarizeOpen your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than the silence. Witness the lively discussion and interaction in this episode's live stream via our YouTube link. Delve into the engaging discourse of a couple who consistently highlights the significance of mental health and fitness. Join us in the journey of learning, evolving, and cultivating the best versions of ourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o87NV4QtGAM
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233 - I Sh*t You Not - Part 1
Jul 15, 202401:06:42Tap to summarizeA Facebook post about a dress code generated loads of interaction from listeners and a producer, and there was a whole lot of discussion on who gets to make rules and why. It was another day in the life of a couple of apostates trying to make the world a better place, one episode at a time. Our YouTube link for this episode, where you can watch the live stream, is for those who like something visual. See for yourself the sexy man that Sarah is always bragging about. Email us if you want to join his fan club - The Mason Mafia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0d1-6NpAj4
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