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Sara Stigson McAllister

Alcohol Freedom Coach | Engineer | Yoga Teacher | Rapid Results Coach

  • Sydney, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales
  • Online and In person sessions
  • Taking new clients
  • Champion Your Change™
  • Whole-person wellbeing
  • Ambition depression
  • Retreat immersion

New to coaching? What to expect

Why work with me

I draw on a rich and varied background to create a path that's uniquely yours, one shaped by your history, where you stand today, and what you want to create for your future.

Getting clear on your goals, and on the deeper why behind them, is often overlooked. Yet it's the foundation that lets you back your own transformation, step out of your own way, and hold a steady course through whatever storms arise, so you can successfully step into the life you choose.

I do this following my signature approach, Champion Your Change™, to CLARIFY–ALIGN–EMPOWER.

Lived experience and approach

I've lived in six countries around the world (I was born in Sweden), raised three children, and become a grandmother. Along the way I've studied and worked across a striking range of industries and roles: engineering project management on large-scale industrial construction, founding and running my own yoga studio, practising as an Energy Medicine practitioner and Spiritual Alchemist, and training as a This Naked Mind Certified Coach and a Rapid Results Coach. I'm currently completing my final subject in Building Biology, adding environmental health to the mix.

For many years, I felt like I was sinking in quicksand, unsure of where I fit in my own life, my career, or society. As an expat wife who had given up a thriving career, I carried a deep sense of what I call ambition depression: not living up to my own expectations. That disconnect fed habits around drinking that pulled me further from wellbeing, happiness, and any real sense of what I wanted from my life. I've also walked through a difficult divorce and financial separation, and I know what it takes to rebuild your sense of self and your future from that kind of rupture.

I understand, firsthand, how complex and challenging it can be to trace disharmony back to its roots. I work with you to untangle the mental, energetic, spiritual, emotional, physical and environmental threads, along with the influence of your relationships, that shape your actions and behaviours. Finding your why hands you back the motivation and power to move away from habits that no longer serve you, like a relationship built around drinking, and step into an empowered future.

Who I especially help

  • People who've recognised they can't quit without support
  • People ready to find their why
  • People who know life has more to offer than what they're currently experiencing
  • People ready to stop standing in their own way
  • People who want more than sobriety — they want overall wellbeing
  • People willing to release the past and create their future
  • People navigating ambition depression

Sessions and availability

I offer Zoom programs for individuals, with the option of an accelerated immersion at my retreat centre on Lake Macquarie, one hour north of Sydney.

The best place to start is a free discovery call, booked online at a time that suits you.

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