Sarah M. Chappell
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Sarah M. Chappell
Intuitive Counsel + Alcohol-Free Herbal Medicine
 
 

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I'm Sarah Chappell. I offer intuitive tarot counsel and alcohol-free herbal remedies to help you unravel your fear, create lasting shifts, and heal yourself.

 

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cw: disordered eating . . . . . . When I got sober from drugs and alcohol, I knew I would eventually need to look at food. I’ve struggled with disordered eating most of my life. One of my earlier memories is stealing candy from the grocery store; I wasn’t allowed to have sweets, but I had already learned to crave something to dull the intensity of being alive. I had an epic candy stash in my room that I would dig into when my parents weren’t around to help me calm down and self-soothe. I found out a couple of years ago that my well-meaning parents purposefully limited my fat intake, as well (child of the 80s for sure). These little bits of my early years start to craft the picture of deprivation and excess that has framed my experience of food and living in a body for most of my life. I won’t bore you with the details of my history with food (though the high school semester where I did two hours of cardio a day and lived on Milky Way Lites is particularly notable), but sobriety initially gave me an excuse to ignore it. 12-step programs encourage folks to replace alcohol with sugar, a swap that many find all too effective. I remember being told to drink a milkshake anytime I wanted an alcoholic beverage. And it works. So much of alcohol is sugar, and the replacement scratches the itch. But it also exacerbated my disordered eating, and made it challenging for me to actually be a sober human rather than playing addiction wack-a-mole. But something has shifted. My body finally got to a point this year where it couldn’t take it anymore. It became clear that my yo-yo dieting and consistent self-harm with food was affecting my physical health in addition to my mind. I don’t have it perfect—and am trying very hard to avoid the need to be perfect—but I’ve achieved some balance, which is a good goal for me. And I’m happy to see more recovery minded folks look at nutrition rather than just slapping sugar as an alcohol replacement. It’s all too easy to shift the behavior elsewhere. And I’m just grateful that my body, much like with alcohol, became ready to make a change. 🍳 #soberlife #processaddiction #disorderedeating #alcoholfree #healyourself #nutrition
This may be my all-time favorite oxymel. 💕 There's a reason the heart is so deeply personified in our culture - for a long time humans lived in a heart-centered world. Our brain-centered modernity has wreaked havoc on the heart, with physical ailments killing us quickly and our inability to love ourselves and release pain not too far behind. Every Heart Has Its Thorns is a vinegar elixir to support the heart in both a physical and energetic way. This nurturing (and delicious!) vinegar can be taken regularly to strengthen the heart, and also when called to soothe old wounds, relieve and release grief, and call in a deep ability to love yourself. 💕 Rosebuds, rosehips, hawthorn flowers, and haw berries. Plus organic apple cider vinegar and local honey. What a dream. 💕 Online shop has been restocked! Order soon for shipment early next week before I head out of town. 💕💕💕 #alcoholfreeherbalism #alcoholfree #herbalremedies #healyourself #plantmedicine #plantmagic #holistichealing #oxymel #applecidervinegar #madeinasheville #828isgreat
I’m radically exhausted and have nothing to say. This is me wearing all of the clothes trying to stay warm in my freezing apartment and pretending I’m a conscious being. 👋
The gift of an hour, maybe more, where the only thing I’m asking myself to do is make. Repetitive action and visible progress and the promise of completion that evades me in much of my life. Someday, I’ll finish this wrap. Already a couple of years in, but it will be done. And making more things is the thing I want to do this year. So this is an hour, maybe more, where the only thing I’m asking myself to do is make. What hour can you give yourself? 🧶 #knittersofinstagram #amknitting #fringefieldbag #knittingaddict #makersgonnamake #selfcaresaturday #handmade
TAROT FOR PLANNING:::Planning is such a funny activity, one part prayer and one part accountability and one part shooting in the fucking dark. We have to choose to believe that we can effect change, harness our power, and actually shift the direction of the world. Even small plans can require great action, moving us out of complacency and into responsibility. Tarot helps because we can not only clarify the steps we want to enact, but also check in around how possible outcomes feel. This is how I teach using tarot for timelines in planning and goal setting in the Your Tarot Year online course. Timelines don’t have to be divinatory, but rather can be a checkpoint for our dedication and actual desire: if the cards say something is going to take far longer than we expected, do we still want it? If we have a mindset that it’s a huge project and the cards come back with a far shorter timeline, are we able to shift our perspective? The feeling aspect of goals and planning is often overlooked, but is a key part of what we’re exploring in Your Tarot Year. Registration is still open, and I’ve added a few spots for the Accelerate program which includes a private session with me to review your Year Ahead plan. Check it out at the link in my bio✨ #yourtarotyear #goalsetting #planning #accountability #spiritualguidance #spiritualgrowth #tarotreadersofinstagram #learntarot #tarotforselfcare #witchesofinstagram #828isgreat #holisticplanner #holisticbusiness
This sweet inscription, written by my grandfather as I entered my second year of college and began the studies that would lead to my minor in molecular cell biology, called to me from the bookstacks in my house. The book, The Language of God by Francis S. Collins of Human Genome Project fame, is a sweet offering to reconcile actual science (not the new age “this energy portal will upgrade your DNA” bullshit) with an attempted logical argument for faith. I am sure that I rolled my eyes when my grandfather, a noted pathologist and medical school teacher, gave me this book over a decade ago. Faith had no place in my life, and I certainly did not see what it had to do with science. Now I read this book and the call to inspiration in my grandfather’s hand, and I truly feel differently. The breadth and depth of current scientific knowledge affirms my belief in something greater than myself. The construction of this world is so amazing that it reinforces my ability to see divinity in all that surrounds me. Collins’s book is fairly Christian in its arguments, but is a lovely and recommended read for those of you who value actual factual science AND spiritual practice. ☀️ #thelanguageofgod #humangenomeproject #spirituality #spiritualgrowth #medicalethics #spiritualguidance #spiritualscience #witchesofinstagram

Kind Words

"Being seen by Sarah for exactly what was going on with me (she really nailed down facet after facet of my situation) was a miraculous healing in and of itself. If you're in need of compassionate clarity to help you understand "what's going on" and how to work through it so you can live from a perspective of self-love, Sarah is an expert." - Elyssa Jakim

"Working with Sarah over the long term has helped me through blocks, depressions, fears and failures as well as helped open up my heart to joy and the privilege of caring for myself with love and kindness." - Lacey Romano

"Sarah has done three tarot readings for me -  all acutely insightful, accurate, and wise.  She is the real deal, a gifted reader, sensitive and empath - intelligent, articulate, perceptive.  My sessions with her were invaluable in navigating some tricky life decisions, and I am profoundly grateful for the help she has given me. " - Devery Doleman

 
 

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