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Touch with Substance – Episode 5: Holding the Light When the World Feels Too Much with Sabrina Santa Clara & Suz Vera Burroughs

Dear Community,

In this episode, Sabrina and I sit together in the rawness of the moment. We talk about how to keep showing up for clients, for loved ones, for the work when the world feels like it’s burning at the edges.

This isn’t a strategy session. It’s a reflection on how we hold the complexity of our roles without losing ourselves to despair, numbness, or performative steadiness.

We explore:

  • How to stay committed to your work when everything feels overwhelming
  • The cost of being in a “therapist” or “healer” role while also being human
  • What it means to honor pain without living inside it
  • Choosing not to let fear be the director of your life
  • Grounding into values like joy, kindness, and tenacity not as escape, but as defiance

This episode is less about answers and more about a shared pause. A place to feel what’s real and remember you’re not alone in it.

With care,
Suz
Unwind Learning

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Our body holds more than tension; It holds stories waiting to be heard. At Unwind Oakland, we honor the body as aguide and storyteller by embracing the language of ethical and attuned touch.We value inclusive, co-created experiences wherejoy is sacred, fear is companioned, and humor is transformative.Through psychedelic integration bodywork and Ketamine-Assisted Therapeutic Myofascial (KATM) Bodywork, we work alongside you in your journey toward deeper connection with yourself and others as fellow Earthlings. Committed to doing our own work and deeply knowing this terrain, we strive to meet the unique needs of our clients with expansive approaches to psychedelic care. Here, you are invited to explore to restore, integrate, and fully inhabit your embodied experience—changed, yet whole.

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