Speaking & Workshops

Conversations That Help Women Return to Themselves

Sara Jane is a former Labor & Delivery nurse, author, speaker, and educator whose work explores self-trust, embodiment, nervous system healing, and the realities women navigate while reclaiming their own voice.

Through storytelling, education, lived experience, and trauma-informed insight, Sara creates spaces where women feel seen, challenged, empowered, and reminded that they are not broken.

Her talks blend practical nervous system education with deeply human conversations about identity, healing, boundaries, self-trust, and the courage it takes to live authentically.

Featured Keynote

The Return to Self: Rebuilding Self-Trust in a World That Teaches Women to Abandon Themselves

Women are often taught to prioritize expectations, roles, and external validation over their own inner knowing.

This keynote explores how self-trust is shaped, how it is lost, and how it can be rebuilt through nervous system awareness, embodiment, and the courage to listen to ourselves again.

Audience members leave with a deeper understanding of:

• Why self-trust feels difficult for so many women
• The connection between survival patterns and self-abandonment
• How the body communicates wisdom and truth
• Practical tools for nervous system awareness and grounding
• What it means to return to yourself

Signature Talks

Women Were Never Broken

A compassionate exploration of conditioning, survival adaptations, and why so many women believe they need fixing when what they truly need is reconnection.

The Body Remembers — and So Does Healing

A conversation about nervous system healing, embodiment, and the body's remarkable capacity to guide us toward safety, wholeness, and self-trust.

Finding Your Voice Without Losing Yourself

How women learn to speak honestly, set boundaries, navigate discomfort, and express themselves without abandoning their authenticity.

Creation Energy: Birthing the Next Version of You

Inspired by the principles of Bloom & Birth, this talk explores creativity, transformation, life transitions, and the many ways we are called to birth new chapters throughout our lives.

Workshops & Breakout Sessions

Rebuilding Self-Trust

Interactive practices and discussions that help participants strengthen self-awareness, embodiment, and confidence in their own inner knowing.

Embodied Boundaries

A trauma-informed exploration of boundaries, communication, nervous system responses, and self-respect.

The Return to Self Workshop

A deeper experiential session combining reflection, nervous system education, guided exercises, and meaningful conversation.

Bloom & Birth Creative Workshop

A reflective experience focused on creativity, life transitions, personal vision, and reconnecting with what wants to emerge next.

Ideal Audiences

• Women's organizations
• Community groups
• Leadership programs
• Colleges and universities
• Wellness events and retreats
• Caregiver and motherhood communities
• Recovery and healing communities
• Conferences focused on personal growth, well-being, and women's experiences

Speaking Style

Sara's approach is:

• Trauma-informed
• Compassionate and relatable
• Educational and practical
• Story-driven
• Grounded and accessible
• Rooted in both lived experience and professional healthcare experience

Her goal is not to tell women who they should become.

It is to help them remember who they already are.

Booking & Inquiries

For speaking engagements, workshops, retreats, podcasts, and community events:

📧 sarajane@bloomandbirth.net