Sara Anderson
I’ve Walked This Path. Now I Walk Beside You.
I know what it's like to be in midlife—tired, anxious, overwhelmed. To look at everything you've built and wonder, "Is this what I worked so hard for?"
I know what it's like to miss the younger parts of yourself and desperately want to find your way back.
And I know what it's like to stand at the midlife threshold wanting to make the second half of your life the best it can possibly be.
The Turning Point
For years, I was the woman who could do anything.
I built two behavioral health companies from the ground up. I opened a vinyl record store. I ran a small ads business. I coached other therapists. I was purposeful, driven, responsible.
But inside, I was burning out. Not the kind you fix with a vacation—the kind that hollows you from the inside.
I didn't collapse dramatically. I dissolved quietly. Until one night, too tired to cook, eating a sandwich and reading O magazine, I came across an article about toxic relationships.
And I realized: I was in one. With my work.
So I did the unthinkable. I walked away from everything I'd built. I sat in the quiet. And piece by piece, I found the woman I was always meant to be.
The Moment Everything Clicked
Not long after, I went to a conference with my dad and sister. In the gallery, a woman had set up an aura reading station with what looked like an old Polaroid camera.
I talked them both into trying it with me.
She took our pictures and fanned them out as they developed. My sister's and my dad's looked similar—blues, reds, greens around their heads and hands.
Mine was completely different.
The woman looked at it and said excitedly, "You have a purple heart!"
Then she asked, "Are you a teacher? A guide?"
I laughed. "No, just a therapist."
She shook her head. "Oh no. That's wrong. You're much more than that—you're just not doing it yet. See here? You have a purple heart. You walked the hero's journey, slayed the dragon, and came back to tell everyone else how to do it. You may not be doing this now, but you need to. It's your gift. And you certainly paid the price for it."
I still have that photo. Sometimes I study all three of them—how similar my dad's and sister's are, how different mine is: purple all over my heart center, the rest lit up in yellows and blues and greens.
That moment changed everything. She saw what I hadn't let myself claim yet.
Shortly after, I began changing my life.
Midlife isn't a crisis. It's a threshold.
A chance to shed what no longer fits and to reclaim the wild, radiant woman you've always been underneath the roles, the responsibilities, the relentless doing.
She's been with you all along.
For 25 years as a psychotherapist and somatic depth coach, I've walked with over 2,300 women through this threshold—not as someone who has it all figured out, but as someone who knows the terrain well enough to guide you through it.
Licensed Professional Counselor and Somatic Depth Coach with 25+ years guiding women through midlife transformation.
How I Work
I work where mind meets body—where ancient wisdom meets modern neuroscience, where your inner wisdom meets your lived experience.
This isn't just talking about dreams and goals and wants and hopes. This isn't another course or program that teaches you something that never quite lands and never quite changes anything.
This work is deep, but not heavy.
I call it The SOMA Code™: Belonging → Becoming → Being.
We approach it with curiosity, openness, and gentle exploration—more discovering than fixing, more wondering than working.
Here, there's nothing to perform, nothing to prove, nothing to perfect.
Just the rediscovery of yourself in midlife.
“A life truly lived constantly burns away veils of illusion, burns away what is no longer relevant, gradually reveals our essence, until, at last, we are strong enough to stand in our naked truth.”
~ Marion Woodman, Feminist Jungian Analyst