Sarah Witherell – Opening Doors to Safer and More Inclusive Schools

Author: Sarah Witherell

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Sarah Witherell

Sarah Witherell is a Licensed Practical Nurse, a CODE Model ™ Coach with the WEL-Systems (R) Institute, and an adoptive mother to an unapologetically authentic daughter. With the help of the Alliance, she has been able to dive into the neuroscience of behaviour to shift into a nervous system approach to support her daughter, which has transformed their trajectory as a new family. Her work in the WEL-Systems (R) body of knowledge has created new pathways to go directly into her own triggers to model a process of evolution by intention.

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Advocacy, Behaviorism, Brain, Neuroscience-aligned, Parenting, Trauma-informed

Owning Our Truths to Show Up Authentically for Our Children

by Sarah Witherell July 15, 2026 0

We can not meet our children on a level of creating potential if we have no sense of what it means to meet them in their full, unique truth. The truth is: we were... Read more.

Brain, Neuroscience-aligned, Parenting, People, Trauma, Trauma-informed

When the Mind Can Only Take Us So Far, the Body Brings Us Back Home: What Lives Under the Challenges We Seek to Understand

by Sarah Witherell June 10, 2026 0

I remember sitting in my daughter’s room during a moment of overwhelm, saying the supportive things I'd read in the books, trying a different approach to the situation,... Read more.

Neuroscience-aligned, Parenting, People

The Power of “I Don’t Know That I Don’t Know”: How Authenticity in a Chaotic Moment Created Inconvenience and Expansion

by Sarah Witherell May 27, 2026 0

In our tiny slices of reality, which are completely unique to us and created by our programming and experiences, we bump up against what we label as problems or... Read more.

Parenting, People, Training, Trauma

In the Midst of a Trigger, our Signals Dance: An Adoptive Mother’s Journey

by Sarah Witherell May 17, 2026 0

On my journey as an adoptive mother, I have had the honor of being challenged beyond my own limiting beliefs, values, and attitudes about myself and my world. In... Read more.