Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sarah Elizabeth Quigg. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Alright, Sarah Elizabeth thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.

Absolutely. After graduating from Nova Southeastern University with all Honors, and being qualified to sit for board exams, I was crushed when I had missed the mark by 1 point. This was one of the first times I didn’t succeed in this field, so I had thought. This had brought me pain and despair which filled me with doubt and confusion. Not knowing what to do I began to write. The writing brought me relief as this was something I had always done to self-soothe. I started to share my writings and inner work on Instagram and individuals from around the world responded with such positive and healing remarks. This helped me so much I thought I could help others. So, during a global pandemic I began to create what is now known as, Heart-Centered Thoughts, 52-ways to heal the Heart, a 52-card deck. I sat every night at the kitchen table from midnight to 4am while my 1-year-old was asleep writing and writing and writing, thought after thought, getting more heart-centered, creating this concept of how to heal. Sharing my story and my healing journey led me to this new way of thinking and I started to share the tools I was using while fostering community with like-minded individuals. Creating a collective feeling of a space to be seen, understood and helped was my main motivator. So, speaking my truth and creating a space to do that, I knew that if I stayed vulnerable, it was a risk I was willing to take to experience connection. At the time, other colleagues of mine were staying with more of their traditional training and I had evolved to one that acknowledged the connection between the heart, mind, body, soul and nervous system. Creating a self-healing product line especially during a global pandemic, was risky in that I had no idea what I was doing. I trusted God and the intuitive sense of my own epistemology and shifted entirely into a way of transforming my pain into purpose, and then made it my mission to show others how to do that. Today, Heart-Centered has doubled in size, is now being sold in retail, and will be offering courses worldwide.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

Absolutely. My name Sarah Elizabeth Quigg,  I am a licensed trauma-informed therapist,  practitioner and entrepreneur from St. Augustine Beach, Florida. I have been recognized on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, The NYC Journal, Entrepreneurs Herald, Voyage Magazine, and multiple write ups in major media outlets. Recently, I received candidacy into Marquis Who’s Who in America. I am the founder of Life in Balance Therapeutic Healing, LLC and Heart-Centered Thoughts, a self-healing product line, virtual healing community and workshops and courses. I started my own practice and Heart-Centered in an effort to expand my approach and help as many individuals heal worldwide.

I truly believe individuals have the capacity to heal. My style uses warmth and compassion, discernment, optimism and collaboration. I play an active role in therapy, and I am known to challenge my patients, highlight where they are stuck, and encourage their transformation.

The framework and foundation of all the work I do begins with a trauma informed evidence-based approach, getting to the root cause of a dysregulated nervous system, and creating an experiential shift where the individual begins to feel safe.

My education consists of degrees, credentials, training and continuing education from Flagler College, Nova Southeastern University, and Johns Hopkins.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

The short answer is doing my own inner work. I have found it to be a quite powerful tool to be able to use my own experiences to relate and connect with others to help build trust and invoke vulnerability. My training and schooling has been enhanced by my own journey through my own self-healing (AKA doing the work). This has allowed me to attach my own experience to the work with my patients. From doing the work before I ask them to do it, I feel that it brings hope to the individual and it also helps the individual to hold themselves accountable, as I am not asking them to do something I haven’t already done myself.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

Sure. Starting with the backstory, I am the youngest sibling of four raised sheltered and lied to about the truth of how the family interacted with the world. My role in the family system was the peacekeeper, rescuer, and enabler of my father. I overworked to protect the family’s secrets and fix situations whether financial, legal or emotional. Through my inner work I was awakened to the reality of the way my family system was operating. I challenged my family beliefs and had to unlearn that my dad still loved me if I didn’t play my role in the system. This exposed my codependency and has given me many tools to help others. This has been one of the most difficult parts of my self-healing and is still a work in progress as there will always be work to do.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.sarahquigglmhc.comand www.heartcenteredthoughts.com
• Instagram: @the.heartcentered.therapist
• Facebook: Sarah Elizabeth Quigg
• Linkedin: Sarah Elizabeth Quigg
• Twitter: sarahquigglmhc
• Youtube: Sarah Elizabeth Quigg
• Other: Tik Tok : heartcenteredtherapist

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Heart-Centered Thoughts Branding Photo Shoot by Tori Kitts Photography