Sarah Dodsley Life Coaching and Bodywork

Sarah Dodsley Life Coaching and Bodywork Life Coach with 12+ years experience helping you learn to put yourself first without feeling guilty using therapeutic coaching techniques and bodywork.

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You’ve been the strong one for so long.The one who shows up. Who holds it together. Who gives and gives and never once a...
06/06/2026

You’ve been the strong one for so long.
The one who shows up. Who holds it together. Who gives and gives and never once asks for anything in return.

And now you’re struggling, quietly, behind everything you’re still holding for everyone else and no one seems to notice.

No one is stepping in the way you’ve always stepped in for them.

That silence hurts in a way that’s hard to even name.

If that’s where you are right now, I want you to know that you are not invisible to me.
Together, we shine a light on everything that matters to you. The things that have been buried under years of giving. The dreams, the needs, the parts of you that got set aside.

Alongside you, we work out what you actually want. Not what everyone else needs from you. What you want. So that you feel a sense of choice again. So that you remember you get to have a say in your own life.

You have spent so long making sure no one else felt alone.

You don’t have to feel alone either.
Should we talk? 💛

If you grew up in the 70s, 80s or early 90s, you might remember The Krypton Factor.It was a TV game show where contestan...
02/06/2026

If you grew up in the 70s, 80s or early 90s, you might remember The Krypton Factor.

It was a TV game show where contestants had to be brilliant at absolutely everything.

Intelligence, fitness, observation, agility and mental ability.

It was compelling television but a completely exhausting way to live your life

Yet I see people doing this every single day.
Saying yes to everything and showing up for everyone. Covering every base, meeting every need, making sure nobody is ever disappointed.

Never letting anything drop.

Never letting themselves rest.

Never once asking who decided I had to do all of this?

Here’s what I want you to know.

You were never supposed to do all of it.

The people who find their way back to themselves, the ones who stop running on empty and start living like they actually matter - have learned something quietly radical.

How to put things down.

Not selfishly but consciously and with the quiet confidence that not every need is yours to meet, and not everyone’s comfort is your responsibility.

That’s not letting people down.

That’s finally, gently, letting yourself up.

If this is you - I’d love to talk.

Next week I’m doing something very different from my day job.I’ll be leading a community group as an advocate at a plann...
29/05/2026

Next week I’m doing something very different from my day job.

I’ll be leading a community group as an advocate at a planning inquiry, something I’ve been working towards for three years, ever since I helped set up a local community to oppose development on farmland where I live.

I’ve given evidence before, so that part doesn’t faze me. But over the past few days I found myself getting completely lost in the weeds, pulled into nit-picking detail by the other side, losing sight of the bigger argument I actually needed to make.

I had to stop, step back and take a breath.

Not easy when adrenaline is doing its thing.

But a proper break and a gym session later, my head is clearer. I’ve been able to zoom out again and remember what actually matters and what I’m there to fight for.

It’s a simple lesson, but one I keep having to relearn: when you’re deep in the detail, you can lose the thread of the whole picture. The answer is rarely to push harder. Sometimes it’s just to pause.

So, what do you need to step back from today to see the whole picture again? 👇

Photo of the beautiful old oak tree on the farm. It’s about 300 years old we think. 🌳

You’re so deep in the story - what should happen, what they should do, what you should do, how it has to turn out…that y...
18/05/2026

You’re so deep in the story - what should happen, what they should do, what you should do, how it has to turn out…that you’ve lost sight of what’s actually in front of you.

That’s the moment to drop the rope. Stop the tug of war that you have been fighting.

Not give up. Not walk away. Just… let the struggle fall to the floor for a second.

Because when you stop pulling, something shifts. You get a little distance. A little air.

Sometimes we get so tangled in a situation, the outcome we want, the narrative we’ve built around it, that we stop being able to think clearly about it at all.

We’re just… gripping.

The concept of dropping the rope is an invitation to pause the struggle. Not forever. Just long enough to get some distance, some perspective, and actually see what’s going on rather than what we’ve been telling ourselves is going on.

It’s a small act. But it can change everything.

What might this mean for you?

03/05/2026

Count me in!

This is Maggie. She will be 11 next month (77 in dog years) and she is a real character in our house. -She has always kn...
29/04/2026

This is Maggie. She will be 11 next month (77 in dog years) and she is a real character in our house.

-She has always known her own mind
-Goes after what she wants (usually food)
-Doesn’t take any nonsense
-Always takes an opportunity to sit in the sun and relax.

She always reminds me to be here now, in the moment.

A useful reminder. ❤️

It’s Friday. These two have got the right idea🐾Meet my work-life balance consultants.Neither is available for meetings n...
24/04/2026

It’s Friday. These two have got the right idea🐾
Meet my work-life balance consultants.

Neither is available for meetings now and I think they’ve got the right idea.

Weekends exist for a reason and I’m taking notes from these two.

Whatever your weekend looks like, I hope there’s at least a little bit of this energy in it. Rest is productive. Switching off is a skill.

And sometimes the wisest thing you can do is just relax and let the week go.
Happy weekend, everyone. 🧡

There’s a trust crisis right now. You can feel it, can’t you?The world feels less steady than it did. Certainty feels im...
20/04/2026

There’s a trust crisis right now.

You can feel it, can’t you?

The world feels less steady than it did. Certainty feels impossibly far fetched on political, social, even personal grounds. Everything feels harder to hold onto.

Trust… I keep hearing this word and recognising the lack of it in conversations.

How hard it is to find. How quickly it disappears. How much we’re all craving it.

But here’s what I keep coming back to…
We’re so focused on whether we can trust out there that we’ve forgotten to ask a much more important question.

Can you trust yourself?

Not your boss or the news cycle. Not the next person who promises they have the answers.

You.

If you’ve spent years being a people-pleaser:
- putting everyone else’s needs first, overriding your own instincts, shrinking your voice to keep the peace then your relationship with yourself has taken a hit.

You’ve been trained out of self-trust without even realising it. So when the world outside feels chaotic, that internal disconnection becomes really loud.

The good news? Self-trust isn’t gone. It’s just buried.

And coming back to it means learning to hear yourself again, to back your own judgement, to lead your own life from the inside out, that’s where everything changes. 🌱

Not just for you. For everyone around you too.
This is the work. And it starts with you.

Are you feeling the trust deficit right now? Where do you notice it most - in the world, or within yourself? Tell me below 👇

18/04/2026

The boundaries we keep with ourselves are often the ones that change our lives the most.

Not answering the text. Not going back because you feel lonely. Not overexplaining. Not giving more chances when you already know what the outcome will be.

Self respect is built in those small moments when you choose yourself, even when it feels uncomfortable.

This week, the voice came.The one that says: you haven’t posted enough. Look at everyone else. You’re falling behind.And...
18/04/2026

This week, the voice came.

The one that says: you haven’t posted enough. Look at everyone else. You’re falling behind.

And here’s what was actually happening:

A family bereavement. The loss of an elderly grandparent.

Being the lead on a local campaign to protect precious farmland and being called into a meeting with barristers and planning inspectors on less than 24 hours’ notice, feeling completely out of my depth.

And somehow, in the middle of all of it, my client work has been a pure joy. I’ve felt so present in these conversations and it’s kept me going.

But the comparison crept in anyway. The sense that not posting = not doing enough = not being enough.

I’m aware, even as I write this, of a familiar voice: ‘Look at you, trying to seem busy and important.’

I know that voice. And I’m choosing not to let it have the final word today.

Not posting as much as I’d like this week doesn’t mean anything more than: this week has been a lot.

I want to say something else, too. I value real human stories on this platform more than almost anything. The ones that remind us that behind every profile is an actual person navigating an actual life.

This is mine, right now.

How are you doing, really?

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