Not Medical Advice
Not Medical Advice
Podcast Description
Hey! Welcome to the Not Medical Advice podcast, where we dive deep into the wisdom and magic of the healing beyond the medical system.
Join us as we explore pathways of healing, and empowerment. Whether you're sitting in your living room, driving in your car, or joining us on a walk, we invite you to become part of our intimate community.
Together, we'll uncover ancient truths, share personal stories, and offer practical tools to help you thrive.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast covers a wide range of topics related to holistic wellness, including creativity as a healing tool, the challenges of spiritual bypassing, and the significance of discernment in wellness practices. Episodes like Healing Through Creativity with Katie Wilken explore how artistic expression fosters personal transformation, while Healing Through Embracing the Dark Side addresses the overlooked difficulties on healing journeys, such as confronting trauma and the impact of isolation.
Beyond Energetics is a podcast exploring beyond the surface of the human experience.
Hosted by Sarah Irwin, Integrative Energetics Practitioner & Intuitive, the show brings together real conversations, lived experience and curious exploration around the things that shape us – often before we fully understand them.
We talk about the transitions that change us, the moments that force us to choose differently, the quiet knowing that tells us something isn’t right, and the gut feelings that make us stop and pay attention. We explore the patterns we repeat, the relationships that change us, the stories we inherit, and the experiences that leave us wondering, why did that affect me so deeply?
Along the way, we look at the body, nervous system, intuition, energy, consciousness and the many layers of human experience that don’t always fit neatly into one explanation.
Some episodes are conversations with real people about the moments that changed the direction of their lives. Others are Sarah unpacking the questions, patterns and experiences she encounters in her own work and life.
This isn’t about having all the answers.
It’s about being willing to look a little closer.
To get curious about what might be happening beneath the obvious. To consider the forces – internal, relational, physiological, emotional and energetic – that can move us toward change.
Real people. Real conversations. Deeper questions.
Because there’s often more to the story than what we can see on the surface.
Beyond the surface. Into the human experience.
You were the strong one. The capable one. The one who read the room before anyone spoke and said yes before you’d even checked in with your own body. But what if that wasn’t your personality – what if it was survival?
In this episode of Beyond Energetics, Sarah Untangles the psychology, somatics, and ancestral entanglement behind “eldest daughter syndrome” – looking at parentification through three lenses: clinical psychology, nervous system science, and shamanic/ancestral healing traditions.
We explore the difference between age-appropriate responsibility and developmentally inappropriate emotional caretaking, why hypervigilance and fawning can look like “just being helpful,” and how inherited family roles get passed down without ever being consciously chosen.
This is not about pathologizing your competence, it’s about asking whether your strength is still a choice, or an obligation you never signed up for.
Work with me: I’m now taking 1:1 clients internationally for The Untangling womb-centered, somatic, and generational healing work for women ready to separate what’s theirs from what was inherited. I’m also booking speaking engagements for organizations, retreats, and events who want this conversation brought to their community.
📍 Book a session, inquire about speaking, or explore The Untangling: www.healingwithsarah.ca
Referenced research: A systematic review of 95 studies on parentification found it can produce both resilience and internalizing difficulties depending on context (PubMed Central). Research on interoception continues to link body-signal awareness to emotional regulation capacity (PubMed Central). Current science does not support a simple, deterministic model of inherited trauma via epigenetics the more supported pathway is relational and environmental transmission across generations (PubMed Central).
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