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Sam Salenger Coaching

My passion is helping women RECLAIM middle age to create the lives of their dreams! Ready to remembe

02/16/2024

I’ve been thinking a lot about time. How bendy and weird it is. Today marks 20 years since my mother’s death. How is that possible? 20 years?? It seems like not so long ago…also it seems like forever ago. I was a pregnant woman awaiting my first child. Now that child is in college. I was married. I am now long divorced. I was a teacher. Now I help people unwind trauma. There are days I feel 28, 16, 65. So what is time? Is it even real? All I know is that sometimes I really miss my mom. If I could bend time I would say so many things to her: thanks for teaching me how to cook, I know you were doing your best, I wish you hadn’t been so sad, I liked it when you laughed I wish you’d been able to do that more, meet your grandchildren… I’m so glad that I have had 20 years to understand myself and my mother, loss, love, parenting, forgiveness, and accountability. I’ll need way more than 20 to understand time. And I’ll need more to understand how years later, my mother’s younger brother died on this exact day. What I already understand is how grief can weave a bond. To my brothers and cousins much love today.

11/07/2023

I love how this tree looks like this symbol 💪🏼. Thanks for the encouragement, nature.

10/30/2023

Left Sonoma County with a glorious sunset and so much love in my heart after 5 days of fun. Grateful beyond measure that some of the people I like the most in the world are family. Landing in Portland to a glorious full moon and grateful to be back with some of my other favorite people, some are related and some are chosen. Full ❤️.

08/12/2023

There is an organization here in Oregon (see link) that is flying donations to Maui. I will do the shopping today and tomorrow. If you feel called to donate directly to me so I can double triple or more what I can buy to send over please Venmo me. I am on my way to buy gas cans, pillows, blankets, baby supplies. Anything you give me will 100% go to getting supplies to the people on Maui. 🙏

08/11/2023

How can we learn to hold all of our human emotions? The deep sorrow of loss and destruction, the empathy of this suffering, AND the gratitude of this moment too? How can we lean into lushness and enjoyment when so many are suffering? When we are aching with grief? This is the work of being a human. Complex, sometimes paradoxical feelings confound and cause guilt or shame. But aren’t we allowed to experience all the feelings and sometimes at the same time? Yes. Not only allowed, deserving. Thank you for showing me how to do this for myself and with my clients. And thank you for the gorgeous paddle and conversations that wound like a river through all the topics. aching for my homeland.

06/02/2023

This picture is not amazing but it’s important to me. I’m 53. Ready to go see a band important in my teenage years. I’m feeling nostalgic for the joy of youth. But also immensely grateful for the wisdom of age. When I was a teenager I thought all moms had to look like my own. Short bleach blond hair ( remember the frosting cap??) , knee length tan skirts, and move with a tenseness i thought was my fault. I simply didn’t know how to be me and be a mom before i became one. And even for years I struggled to have my full self present. But i sure as hell know now. Better still, for the first time I feel embodied and powerful and i really like me. And that’s a freakin’ miracle. I don’t need compliments or ‘you go girl’. Because it simply doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks. I’m no longer outsourcing my value, worth, confidence, or joy. I’m doing the most fulfilling work, I’m accepting (mostly) my aging, perfectly imperfect body, and enjoying the hell outta my life. All it took was 5 decades, loads of therapy, many many yo-yo diets, hundreds of thousands of hours hating myself, a divorce, 2 children , death of my mom, and a year of trauma informed somatic coaching training. Easy peasy. 😏

02/15/2023

19 years ago my mom died. She’d been sick for a long time, but it was still a shock. This many years later her reflect on how some years this date feels tender, sometimes it feels sad, occasionally I’ve been angry, and some years it feels kinda normal almost. This year it feels normal except that 19 years is close to 20 years and that seems impossible. 5 years ago my uncle, my mom’s younger brother died on the same day. Today holds a lot of sorrow, loss, and also joy and love. Holding you close .salenger

11/23/2022

My brilliant friend started a baking biz. “Thats cute” I thought. Then I saw her name. Doughmestic Architect. “Thats brilliant” I thought. Then I saw her goods. “Those look amazing” I thought. Then I tasted them. “Holy s**t these are amazing “ I thought. Then she came up a non profit arm called Doughnation. “She’s one of a kind” I thought. And then she bought a cottage and turned it into the sweetest rental and commercial kitchen. “She’s gonna be huge and she’s living her dream”. You can support this delightful badass visionary generous fun snarky talented person too.

10/30/2022

Trees! amiright!?!!!

10/26/2022

So good to simply stop and look up once in a while.

10/09/2022

Homecoming’22 Man I love this kid. Jake is looking good and is a really fine human. is gorgeous inside and out!! Grateful to have these two in my life!!

09/26/2022

I hear it’s National Daughter’s Day. I got a great one.

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