Sara Vatore-Spaces for Healing, Integration and Expansion, 281 Franklin Street, Belchertown, MA (2026)

05/12/2026

🌟New Wisdom Keepers Episode Available!🌟

This was such a special interview for me where I got to connect with my father, Dr. Alan Goldberg-, an internationally recognized pioneer in peak sports performance and mental toughness. Together, we explore the winding path of his life and work, from his early days on the tennis court to an unexpected shift from fisheries biology into counseling psychology and performance coaching.

Our conversation traces the evolution of his work beyond traditional mental training and into a more multidimensional understanding of the nervous system, trauma, and the deeper roots of performance blocks. We also explore creativity, failure, legacy, and what it means to pass forward decades of wisdom as I step into leadership within the business he built.

Dr. Alan Goldberg, Ed.D., SEP is the founder of Competitive Advantage LLC and has spent more than four decades helping athletes at every level—from youth competitors to professional athletes and Olympians—develop confidence, resilience, and the ability to perform under pressure. Known for his clarity, humor, and highly practical approach, Dr. G has helped countless athletes break through slumps, overcome fear-based blocks, and perform at their best when it matters most.

Early in his career, he recognized that mindset training alone wasn’t enough for many athletes struggling with repetitive performance problems, and he went searching for something deeper. He became one of the first in his field to integrate nervous system science and body-based approaches into sports performance work, training in Brainspotting, EMDR and later Somatic Experiencing® to help athletes resolve repetitive performance problems at their root.

Dr. G is the author of more than 35 books and training programs and has worked with NCAA championship teams, spoken at the Olympic Training Center, and presented at top coaching clinics worldwide. A first-degree black belt in Shorin-Ryu karate and grandfather of two, he continues to bring curiosity and depth to both his work and his life.

Inside this episode, we explore:

🌟Dr. G’s early passion for tennis that sparked a lifelong fascination with the mental side of performance

🌟The daring shift from a degree in marine biology to a doctorate in counseling psychology

🌟Why traditional mindset coaching often falls short when the nervous system is involved

🌟How trauma, the body, and stored survival responses can shape athletic performance

🌟The multidimensional nature of performance, including the impact of parents, coaches, and relational systems

🌟The body’s “voice” and how physical sensations can guide healing and transformation

🌟Creativity, perfectionism, and learning to bypass the hypercritical front brain

🌟Reframing failure as information, experimentation, and curiosity

🌟Maintaining hope and meaningful focus during chaotic times

🌟The transition of a family legacy and the continued evolution of Competitive Advantage LLC

Listen now on your favorite podcast platform or with the link in the comments.

XO Sara 💙🌀

05/01/2026

Starting tomorrow I am taking a work pause. I am off with my family to the ocean in Maine for a week starting Sunday. I plan to be unplugged from social media during this time and will return on Monday May 11th.

Creating this kind of space is one of the ways I tend to my own capacity for all that I hold.

If you’re curious to book in with me for an in-person 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙎𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 at Venture Way Collaborative in Hadley MA, to connect about virtual 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝘾𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 containers, or to book a 𝙎𝙋𝘼𝘾𝙄𝙊𝙐𝙎 𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 1-1 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 or 1-1 𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝘾𝙀𝙊 𝙍𝙚𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 for late Spring or Summer, please send an email to [email protected].

Wishing you a nourishing week.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/30/2026

For each month of 2026 I pulled a card so we can all receive some support. What energy is here for us to work with as a resource to invite in more clarity, ease and light?

For May the resource is: CONTENTMENT

When I went back to my original notes from January to see what the theme is this month, my first reaction was “eh.” And then that made me laugh out loud.

Yup, contentment is not something we are really good at as a culture. What a beautifully challenging invitation this month.

On the card there is an older, wise woman resting in a hammock woven from tree roots and branches, suspended in the sky. Her eyes are closed and she looks completely at peace. She comes across as settled, satisfied, and fully arrived in the moment she is in.

There is nothing striving in this image. There is no next thing.

For so many of us that might feel a little uncomfortable.

We live in a culture that is almost always in motion, striving toward the next goal, the next version, the next level. We are so practiced at identifying what isn't working, what needs to be fixed, what could be better, and paying attention to what is coming up next, we barely pause long enough to notice when we have actually arrived somewhere.

Even when we complete something meaningful (a project, a season of growth, a hard thing) we tend to move straight into what's next without allowing ourselves to feel the fullness of what just happened.

Spending time with contentment can feel pretty radical against the backdrop of what is happening around us.

We live in a culture and during a time that profits from our dissatisfaction and from our sense that something is always wrong or not enough or about to get worse.

Choosing to pause and genuinely feel satisfied with what you have is an act of quiet resistance. It is a way of reclaiming your attention.

And, you might notice that being with contentment can feel genuinely unsettling. For many of us, our nervous systems don't actually know how to stay inside the sensations of “it's good.”

Contentment can be mistaken for stagnation or lack of ambition, when in reality it is something very different. It is a felt sense in the body of enoughness, of being in relationship with what is already here and allowing that to land.

This is where nature can be a gentle entry point for support. The natural world is not in a hurry. When we step outside and let ourselves be held by something that is simply being without striving, our nervous system gets a quiet mirror that it is safe to slow down.

This month is an invitation to turn inward. To orient to what is actually here.

To feel content, we have to know what matters to us. We have to have some relationship with our values, with what actually feels meaningful and important in our lives. If that is unclear, contentment will feel elusive, because we are orienting toward something undefined.

This makes this month a really potent opportunity to turn inward and ask those questions more directly.

🌀What do I care about?

🌀What feels important to me right now?

🌀What actually nourishes me?

Without that clarity, we tend to stay in a loop of seeking without ever quite arriving anywhere.

There is also something here about allowing ourselves to register what is already working. Many of us are incredibly attuned to what feels off, what feels incomplete, what needs attention, but we don’t spend the same kind of time and care noticing what is supportive, what is steady, what is good. This month is asking us to gently shift that orientation, by widening our awareness to include what is already resourcing us.

For this month, the invitation is to include sensing contentment as part of your process.

To pause, even briefly, and notice:

🌀What in my life is already working?

🌀What feels supportive?

🌀Where do I feel even a small sense of satisfaction?

🌀Can I let that register in my body, without immediately moving past it?

There is something deeply healing, about allowing ourselves to feel content, even if just for a few moments at a time.

What would it feel like to let this moment (this season, this version of life) be enough, just for now?

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/28/2026

🌟 New Wisdom Keepers Episode available!🌟

Wisdom Keepers: Dimensions of Anne Yeomans

In the newest installment of the Wisdom Keepers series, I am joined by Anne Yeomans for a conversation that traces the quiet, guiding red thread that shapes a life of deep service and spiritual inquiry. Anne invites us beyond linear ways of understanding and into a more expansive relationship with the cosmos, sharing how an early moment of grace became an orienting force in her life and work.

Together, we explore the alchemical interplay of grace, will, and desire and the profound, often countercultural act of turning inward in a world that prizes constant outward engagement. Anne speaks to the creation of sacred, sometimes unconventional spaces for women, and her years facilitating women’s circles in both the United States and Russia. We also touch into her unexpected relationship with poetry—how it began arriving rather than being pursued, and what it has meant to receive language in this way. Her life reflects a deep attunement to the intelligent, guiding force that emerges when we learn to listen. This conversation points us back to a place of inner balance, where we can reconnect with our own inherent wisdom.

Anne Yeomans has been a psychotherapist for over 50 years. She has facilitated dialogue groups and sacred women’s circles for decades in both the US and Russia. She is the co-founder of The Women's Well, an organization devoted to the healing and empowerment of women and girls and the reclaiming of the sacred feminine. The Women’s Well offered programs in the Boston area from 1994 to 2012, centered around essential questions in women’s spirituality: What do women experience as sacred? How do they know it and honor it? How do they bring it forth?

Anne is a poet and the author of the poetry collection We Used to Call Her Mother. She is also the editor of Willing to Love, in which she authored a chapter. A lifelong social activist, she is also a mother of two and a grandmother of five.

Inside this episode, we explore:

🌟Anne’s journey from a lonely childhood to a realization of the vastness and mystery of the universe

🌟The interplay between Grace (the unexpected gifts), Will (the choice to engage), and Desire (the longing to grow) in our personal evolution

🌟The guiding “red thread” of our lives and how we can learn to follow it change and uncertainty

🌟Creating sacred spaces for women to share authentic, resonant experiences which were often outside traditional structures

🌟Her work facilitating women’s circles across cultures, including in Russia

🌟Cultivating a relationship with the dream world and the unconscious as a vital dimension of human experience

🌟Applying the Psychosynthesis framework of body, feelings, mind, and spirit to ground our multidimensional nature

🌟The radical act of turning inward to hear the wise, intelligent voice within

🌟Honoring the vulnerabilities of aging while reclaiming joy and peace in later seasons of life

🌟Her relationship with poetry—how it emerged unexpectedly and what it means to receive rather than “create”

🌟A closing poem from her new collection, read by Anne, that beautifully captures the spirit of our conversation

Listen now with the link in the comments or on your favorite podcast platform.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/27/2026

For most of my life, I didn’t have access to my inner fire. From a young age and in my early adulthood my relationship with anger was completely shut down.

I worked really hard to be even keeled and happy or in a good mood all of the time. No anger. No frustration. Nothing other than pretending everything was okay.

Both of my parents grew up in homes where anger was intense, chaotic, and abusive and so they did everything they could to create peace in our home.

They worked so hard to make sure we didn’t see anger.

What that taught me, unintentionally, was that anger is not okay, and in fact not safe.

I ended up sacrificing my own sense of truth, going along with what I thought others wanted of me.

I didn’t know I was doing it at the time, but thinking about whether others were going to be pleased or upset with me took center stage in my head, and I had no sense of what I actually felt, wanted or needed.

I overrode my discomfort, I got really good at smiling, and shoved uncomfortable and unfamiliar sensations down.

And it worked…until it didn’t. 🥴

When anger doesn’t have space to move, it doesn’t go away.

It is a VERY highly charged energy that when unexpressed, it simmers in the system and hides in the body until it becomes illness, inflammation, disconnection, and fatigue.

I had to learn and help my body get the message that anger is not actually a problem.

Feeling this emotion is an essential part of a healthy nervous system.

🔥Anger helps us set boundaries.
🔥It shows us where our values are being crossed.
🔥It carries the energy of protection.
🔥And, it wakes us up to what’s not working and where we may be dissatisfied.

It’s only in the last 7 years that I’ve really begun to access my fire again.

And it’s been a process.

👉🏼Learning how to feel activation and not collapse.

👉🏼Learning how to let sensation rise and move through without judgment, or without it shutting me down.

👉🏼Learning that I can feel anger without burning everything down.

This is something I work on with clients all the time, especially high-achieving women.

So many of us were taught that the goal is to be composed and palatable. To be “nice.”

That being BIG or in genuine authentic expression is actually dangerous.

But we can be grounded and still be fierce.

We can be loving and express displeasure in a boundary that was crossed.

🔥 Have you ever struggled with your relationship to anger?

🔥 Have you ever felt afraid to let your fire rise?

🔥 Are you craving more capacity to hold your full expression?

This is what somatic work makes possible.

If you’re curious to shift the relationship with your fire, reach out and let’s connect! I would love to discuss what offers could be a good fit for you at this time.

You deserve to reclaim the fullness of who you are. Fire included.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/24/2026

Thank you so much to Dr. Brenna and her staff at Embodied Chiropractic & Family Wellness • Dr. Brenna Werme, DC. It has been such a pleasure to call her space my in-person session home for the last two years.

If you are in need of chiropractic support for yourself or any family member (including children and babies) she is who you need to call. Her work is life changing and her space is lovely.

Starting next Friday May 1st I will be moving to Venture Way Collaborative in Hadley for my in-person work, so I can have access to a larger space.

I am now booking for my hands-on Somatic Integration Sessions and MELT Method Sessions and filling up for May on Mondays and Fridays.

If you have been curious to try a session, or have been meaning to book in again for a session, reach out! I would love to get you in.

Learn more about both MELT sessions and Somatic Integration Sessions by clicking the links in the comments.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/22/2026

Some of my favorite weekends holding space for clients during my customized 1-1 Somatic Healing retreats have been all about business visioning.

So many of my clients are running their own businesses. It is so easy as a business owner to get stuck in the day to day, just trying to make it all work.

To allow old systems to stay. To not look at cracks that are starting to reveal themselves. To over plan/schedule what we think we need from a “well, this is how we usually do it” energy. To prioritize our minds and not drop into what our body and intuition is trying to communicate.

It feels hard to create space for creative visioning or feel like it is even important to prioritize when there is so much “to do”.

To take a step back and look at the bigger picture.

To feel into the energetics of what is happening right now, and identify whether or not this is the direction we want to be heading.

To open up to and be comfortable with spaces of not knowing/not being sure/letting go of expectations.

𝘼𝙉𝘿, 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄’𝙫𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙤 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙨 𝙋𝙊𝙒𝙀𝙍𝙁𝙐𝙇. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨.

As humans we are not fixed or one thing. We are growing and changing. This means that as
business owners, we are shifting and changing as well.

Sometimes we start projects that no longer feel aligned. Sometimes we move forward on something and realize that we desire a different direction.

As business owners we get to make our own rules and call the shots. I sometimes forget this…😂.

We get to change our mind.

We get to do it differently than it has been done before.

AND…We need SPACE to sense into what the larger vision is again and again, to make sure we are taking aligned action.

The Spacious CEO Retreat, my 1-1 customized weekend experience, is a space to drop into a potent portal of curiosity for your self, for your business, and for your creative projects.

This is a 2 night, 3 day experience devoted to realigning with what is important and what is emerging in your world.

Send me a DM to start a conversation if you are curious to learn more or click the link in the comments. Now booking for late Spring and Summer weekends.

This is my favorite offering right now. The magick that happens from the experience starts when you name your desire and get something locked in on a calendar.

I am honored to hold space for you 🙏🏼

04/20/2026

I’m someone who deeply values connection.

So for most of my life, it’s felt really hard when someone I care about disagrees with me, especially if they’re upset, or if I’m standing in a truth they can’t see or feel from where they are.

This used to completely unravel me.

Even if I knew what I was feeling or sensing was right for me, the discomfort of dissonance, the charge of not being in agreement, would flood my system.

That charge felt like shame.

Heat. Pressure. Nausea and tightness in my solar plexus and belly.

A deep, familiar signal in my body that said: You’re wrong. You’re bad. You shouldn’t feel this way.

Lately, I’ve been working on being with that dissonance and not trying to run away from it.

Not collapsing into someone else’s viewpoint.

Not overriding my own knowing just to make things smooth.

Just letting myself be with the discomfort of the dissonance and stay rooted in what’s true for me.

This is the work of expanding our nervous system’s capacity to hold the tension of difference without collapsing our truth.

Trusting that someone can disagree with you and still love you.

Trusting that YOU can disagree and still feel connected, safe, and whole.

We each get to hold our own knowing.

When we stop abandoning ourselves to avoid discomfort, we become more stable, more trustworthy, and more powerful leaders, in business and in life.

If this resonates, know you’re not alone.

And know it’s okay if your body still flares up when this happens.

That’s why we do the work, so we can hold it all with more ease.

If this is the kind of inner work you're ready to deepen into (learning to trust your knowing, expand your capacity, and lead with more alignment and stability) this is exactly the kind of support I offer in my 1:1 somatic coaching for women in business.

It’s about gently repatterning the way your body holds leadership, success, relationships, and truth for lasting change.

DM me if you’re feeling the pull to explore what this support could look like for you. I’d love to connect.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/15/2026

Growing up I really struggled socially. I spent a lot of time in my head thinking other people didn’t like me (probably giving out a “get-away-from-me” vibe 😬🤦🏻‍♀️) and really didn’t have true friends until my later adult years.

Over the last 15 years I have had the gift of connecting with women that are deeply aligned with my values and how I want to be in relationship.

As mammals we are tribal beings. We are designed to connect and bond with others. Having relationships is how we thrive as individuals. When we isolate ourselves, it is often from a protective part of us that is trying to avoid getting hurt, but it ultimately does not support our growth and expansion.

Building these relationships takes time. It takes showing up. It takes willing to be seen. It takes voicing our truth.

I am sitting here reflecting on these beautiful relationships I have built over the years and am filled with so much gratitude.

To Andrea Bordenca, Brie Ann Wollman Chamblé, Julie and Susan …Thank you. Thank you for showing me what generative, reciprocal friendship and support looks like. I am so appreciate of each of you in different ways.

For anyone reading this…who are the people in your life that feel like this? Have you told them recently?

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/14/2026

🌟New Wisdom Keepers Episode Alert! 🌟

In this episode of the Wisdom Keepers series, I am joined by Kenneth Sørenson to navigate the intricate maps of the human psyche through the lens of Psychosynthesis. We dive in to explore how this living psychology can guide us as a steady compass along our spiritual path.

Kenneth shares how we can bridge the gap between our personal and transpersonal will, moving beyond our past conditioning to move through life with greater alignment and choice. It’s a conversation about the art of self-mastery and the quiet courage it takes to expand, just a little, every single day.

Kenneth Sørensen is a psychotherapist, author, and teacher specializing in psychosynthesis and transpersonal psychology. He holds a Master’s degree in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy from the University of East London and has many years of experience working with personal and spiritual development in both clinical and educational settings.

He is the founder of kennethsorensen.dk, an extensive online library dedicated to psychosynthesis, where he publishes and curates original writings by Roberto Assagioli alongside his own articles and contemporary contributions to the field. His work is characterized by a strong emphasis on scholarly rigor, source-based research, and the integration of psychological and spiritual perspectives.

Kenneth is actively involved in the international psychosynthesis community, serving on the steering committees of both the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis and the Synthesis Community. He is also engaged in an ongoing biographical research project on Assagioli, drawing on archival material to present a historically grounded and nuanced account of the founder’s life and work.

Through his writing, teaching, and public speaking, Kenneth seeks to advance psychosynthesis as a living, evolving psychology relevant to both individual transformation and wider cultural development.

Inside this episode, we explore:

🌟Psychosynthesis as a living, evolving psychology for both personal transformation and collective growth

🌟Kenneth’s path into this work and what drew him to the depth and structure of psychosynthesis

🌟A multidimensional understanding of the human psyche and how it supports inner development

🌟Distinguishing between the "Personal Will" and the "Transpersonal Will" and how each shapes our choices and direction

🌟Navigating the fear and conditioning that arise when we begin to step into more of who we truly are

🌟Self-mastery as an ongoing, lived process rather than a fixed destination

🌟The experience of the “I” as a center of awareness and will, distinct from thoughts, emotions, and roles

🌟The importance of having a clear inner map to support both psychological and spiritual growth

🌟What it means to grow in small, meaningful ways and the courage it takes to follow what feels true.

Listen now on your favorite Podcast platform or with the link in the comments.

XO Sara 💙🌀

04/13/2026

I am so excited to announce that starting in May my in-person sessions have a new home.

I am moving to Andrea Bordenca’s beautiful building Venture Way Collaborative in Hadley!

This is a long time coming for us both and I am so excited to be sharing office space at this magickal place.

I am now booking for my hands-on Somatic Integration Sessions and MELT Method Sessions and filling up for May on Mondays and Fridays in Hadley at Venture Way Collaborative.

If you have been curious to try a session, or have been meaning to book in again for a session, reach out! I would love to get you in.

Learn more about both MELT sessions and Somatic Integration Sessions by clicking the links in the comments.

XO Sara 💙🌀

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