Meet Sarah Noble

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Sarah Noble. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Sarah below.

Sarah , we’re so excited for our community to get to know you and learn from your journey and the wisdom you’ve acquired over time. Let’s kick things off with a discussion on self-confidence and self-esteem. How did you develop yours?
For so much of my life everything felt WRONG. I felt so victimized, so misunderstood, so out of place, so afraid of life, that I did whatever I could to be liked and accepted and to fit in. I put others ahead of myself, misused and mistrusted my body, struggled with addiction and used all my energy to create an outward appearance intended to impress others and gain their approval. I spent years cultivating a personality that was adaptable to every situation, in a frantic attempt to feel safe and loved. Yet, inside I desperately hated myself, to the point that at times it was debilitating.

Then during some of my darkest days, I found myself on a yoga mat, and slowly my world began to change.
As my spiritual path unfolded over the years, I understood just how disempowered my younger life had left me. I could see that as a young adult my self harming actions were an attempt to not only find solace and love in an ever changing sea of emotions, but also a desperate struggle to find power and authority over my life and its circumstances.

Through this awareness I found the courage to dive deep into my wounding and conditioning, the strength to unpack the skeletons from my closets, the support to turn towards the traumas that were asking to be healed, and little by little I learned how to create a life that feels so RIGHT. I could finally see that only I had the power to let my past and current circumstances define me. I held the key to everything. I got to choose.

As I continued my journey of finding freedom, my confidence and self esteem grew inside each tiny moment that I consciously chose to turn towards my hurt rather than turn away and abandon myself. To my surprise, I found a deep love for who I am carefully tucked away inside all the parts of me I kept wishing away, the parts I made wrong and hid from the world. Deciding to explore these treasures, rather than keep running from them, is where I encountered my true and authentic self.

As I dove deeper, I learned that this is also the place my intuition lives, my innate internal wisdom that always knows what I need and who I am. I stopped needing to look outside myself for validation and understood how to look within to cultivate, harness and bring my dreams and wishes to life.

And what I love most about taking this wild ride of walking a spiritual path is that it has allowed me to see so beautifully that the magic is not outside us, the magic is always, and has alway been, alive WITHIN us. Only we know how to traverse our own darkness in devotion to finding our light. We are the ones that hold the answers. Within us we hold all the love that we will ever need.

And, this path has also shown me how vitally important it is to have a relationship with the Earth, and with all of nature. To live in gratitude and practice reciprocity for all the gifts she shares with us. It has not been easy, and it was especially spicy, yet it was so incredibly worth it. By turning inward, every part of me changed and because of this, the reality I now live in has changed.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
Ever since I was a young child there has been a desire in me to know and understand “What is God”. At first I expressed this curiosity by inviting myself to go to church with our neighbors. I visited Catholic, Methodist, Southern Baptist, Episcopalian and “Born Again” Christian churches and even though they didn’t feel quite right, I really fell in love with the singing so kept showing up. It never made sense to me that God supposedly loved me in one moment, but then would smite me in the next if I offended him. Plus the hypocrisy I saw happening around me, didn’t inspire me to stay.

So in my high school years, after a series of tragic events, I left my quest of God behind and moved on to the more tangible resources of sex, drugs and alcohol. As you can imagine this was a wild and unsustainable ride.

Then in a yoga class, years later in my early thirties, the teacher said, “Spirit loves you just as you are, you are a perfectly divine being”. I started crying and couldn’t stop.

So began my deep dive into all things spiritual. My path has been one of deep commitment to myself as a way to experience Spirit. Spirit is whole, complete and ever loving, how can I expect to connect and understand its magnificence if I don’t believe I am also these things. I had to unpack every part of myself and my inner landscape that held untruths about who I am in order to be able to see and connect with my own divinity. I had to understand how to be in right relationship with all of life, including the Earth and all of her beings.

Another huge motivator of this journey has been my desire to develop my intuition. The extra sensory parts of ourselves that have been covered up and forgotten. The true place of our power and ability to connect with ourselves and the world around us. I used to think you had to be born with psychic and intuitive gifts, yet learned that actually they can be developed. So I did.

And now I am passionate about helping others develop their own gifts and understand how much of our lives are actually influenced by the energetic and natural world. The unseen world that lives right beside us, that we have been separated from and forgotten. I love to create spaces that allow people to live fully alive, as their true authentic selves, deeply connected to their spiritual path and intuitive gifts.

As for what I am here to bring to the world, I see myself as a portal between the seen and unseen world and my work is based on ancient and modern energy medicine practices that exist outside of traditional space and time. I love to play in the places that exist around the corners of ourselves that we can’t easily see. I have experienced that there is magic that happens when we take our challenges from the physical world and move them into the subtle world. It opens up the field of possibility and potential in exponential ways.

Some of the ways I support people on their own path are through online programs I have developed that have been inspired by my own journey. They included practices, meditations, journeys, ceremonies, rituals, all designed to uncover and move through what is keeping us stuck, by tapping into and developing our intuitive gifts and having a deeper relationship with all of life. I believe we are all here with a divine purpose for the planet and I love supporting you to find and live into yours. There is beauty in all parts of us, and I love to help others uncover their gifts and connect with their own innate wisdom. I also host retreats, workshops and offer one on one support.

Plus, I host The Modern Day Intuitive Podcast. This podcast came through me a couple of years ago and is a gift for the world. It is born from my passion to help you reconnect with your heart, your intuition, your dreams and your purpose. In each episode, you’ll hear me channel guided spiritual information for a guest around a specific question or decision they are facing in their life to help them understand the true desires of their hearts, trust their intuition, and find their path forward.

I hope to inspire you to remember we are all connected and often times struggling with the same things. By offering deep wisdom and practical tools that you can use in your daily life to tap into your intuition, along with Spirit-led, divinely channeled readings that connect you with your own intuitive gifts, Spirit Guides, and soul family, it is my joy and honor to encourage you as you learn to trust your inner guidance, and deepen your relationship with yourself.

And, I am also a teacher on Insight Timer, the popular meditation app. I host meditations and talks intended to support your spiritual and energetic growth and expansion.

Over 20 years later from that day of crying on my yoga mat, my life is a devotion to knowing and living as God/Spirit/Divine. I believe that it doesn’t matter what you call it my love, so long as you call it. And call it often.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
As I reflect on this question, what I see is that my three most important devotions have actually been my guideposts all along and are the skills, qualities and area of knowledge I endeavor to uphold each day.

To better explain, my devotions are the things I am committed to in all areas of my life. They stem from my values and they are the markers I hold dear to my heart and aspire to live into in all of my daily actions and interactions. They are

1. Intuition/Spirituality
2. Meaningful Connection
3. Movement

How this works for me is that if I am making a decision, or having a tough moment, needing to have an uncomfortable conversation, whatever life is bringing to my doorstep at each moment, I pause and take action based on my devotions. I ask myself

Is what I am choosing based on my own inner wisdom of what I truly want and inline with my truth?

Does it create and foster meaningful connection with myself and another?

And if I am having a particularly tough time understanding my emotions or the situation, Have I taken care of myself and moved today? (Usually if the answer is no to this last one, everything feels more challenging.)

Connecting with my devotions helps me to stay aligned with what is true and correct for me and my path.

It was not always this way though.

I would say that my desire for these devotions was always present. (I yearned to understand God from age 8, I have always made friends and placed huge importance on my relationships, I started running at age 11). Yet my commitment to live into these values was not available. I knew I wanted them, however, I continued to make choices that took me away from what I would love rather than towards. What the shadow side of these devotions looked like for me is, addictive behaviors that kept me out of my body, codependent and abusive relationships, exercising excessively to perpetuate an eating disorder.

Today living in alignment with my devotions helps me to love myself and others more deeply in a healthy and supportive way, and offers me the opportunity to expand even more fully.

It is a worthy endeavor to get familiar with your own values, the things that are important to you, the qualities you want to be present in your life. Then look at the things you love to do, the things that really light you up and get you excited. Then find the intersection of these things and create your own devotions. Let them guide you, let them love you, let them change you.

As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
Not long after the time I was crying on my yoga mat, I was given the book “You Can Heal Your Life” by Louise Hay. There are so many wonderful things about this book, yet the thing that moved me and touched me the most was that I felt she was writing the book specifically for me.

Up to this point, I internalized everything and felt incredibly lonely. I was entrenched in my stories of abandonment and victimization, and believed everyone else in the world was doing wonderfully well, had no issues and why couldn’t I be just like them. Instead here I was living this, increasingly more difficult to hide, life of shame, insecurity and unworthiness. Louise lovingly blew up all of my illusions that I was alone and helped me see that I needed to get over myself and figure some things out. She inspired me to call the therapist whose card I had in my wallet for over a year, too scared to call because I believed I was too ‘damaged’, and make some much needed changes by getting some much needed support.

Now I hope to inspire others to realize that they are not alone in their pain and that there is actually a way forward. And not just a way, but an entire life waiting to be lived once we have the courage to take a step in the direction of our hearts.

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