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How can you evolve into a new career without leaving behind your other passions and identities? Sara Auster was a successful artist when she encountered a life-changing injury. Instead of letting it paralyze her, she found alternative healing practices and combined her creativity into her newfound interest for sound baths and meditation. She shares how listening has helped her become a leading sound therapist, how she found an audience without a specific avatar, and how to create an honest brand by embracing all the pieces that make up who you are.

This week, host Clarice Metzger chats with Sara Auster, who, up until the pandemic, led sound bath and meditation experiences IRL. But when “social distancing” became two of the most commonly used words in our lexicon this year, she had to take her practice online, in the form of Instagram Live sound bath experiences. Here, “Thrive 5” host Clarice Metzger talks to Sara about the practices that keep her grounded, a pre-bedtime ritual she shares with her husband, and how she found her calling.

Sound therapist and meditation teacher Sara Auster speaks with us about how trauma helped her become a more empathetic educator, the real definition of a “healer,” and why sound baths can facilitate a deeper sense of self.