First, I’m so thankful to have Sas as my personal development coach.
She is just what I never knew I needed.
Sas and I have now done two sets of sessions, a year apart from one another. In reflection, I’m actually dumbfounded at the personal progress in all areas of life—be it relationships, business, living situation, etc. My quality of life is subjectively and objectively better.
My life wasn’t in shambles before; I was already relatively “successful” in the world’s eyes, but on a personal level, I knew I needed to a higher state of expansiveness and energy that I knew existed within me. I just didn’t know what that looked like or how to fully get there.
With our recent set of sessions, I was able to quickly—within weeks—step into next level life shifts where narratives of guilt and shame held me back. While I boldly stepped into new opportunities filled with risk, I’m more amazed with areas I had grown accustomed to being okay with…when they didn’t fit who I was. New opportunities had always been available, I just hadn’t yet seen them.
In between our set meeting times, Sas was available by Voxer to give her updates, both on the highs and lows. She legitimately cares. Whether I needed a sounding board, voice of encouragement, or to marinate in deeper evaluation, Sas was able to tune in to my subtle, unconscious emotional blindspots that were preventing—and historically, self-sabotaging—me from reaching my full potential; I call that full potential my ‘70-100%’ life level…living on my soul’s edge of freedom, confidence, and adventure.
Over time, what seem like monumental shifts are now natural to execute. It’s congruent to my identity. I’m more comfortable with my voice and stepping into my power.
I am forever grateful.
Thank you, Sas!
Sas is a truly remarkable individual and coach. She has a rare ability to connect deeply with her clients and colleagues. She truly cares about others and her big heart is evident in every coaching session. In addition, her authenticity and genuineness allow her to easily create trust and intimacy, which is crucial for developing a safe space for coaching. Sas has truly helped me to move forward and overcome the obstacles that I’ve been facing. It has been an absolute pleasure working with Sas and I look forward to working with her again!
In spite of having a degree in dramatic writing, I’m struggling to find the words to describe how brilliant Lori Sase’s life coaching is. The simple fact of the matter is no amount of drama will actually be able to do her and her work justice. Nevertheless, I’ll still try. Forgive me if some of this sounds hyperbolic, but believe me you’ll get it once you meet and know this incredible woman.
I could literally write a novel about Sase’s many wondrous, impressive, and unparalleled qualities and gifts, but for brevity’s sake I will try to focus this testimonial on her skills as a life coach.
She has all of the characteristics that I personally require and look for when it comes to someone I feel I can open up and talk to: integrity, kindness, honesty, generosity, empathy, depth, intelligence, and most importantly, authenticity.
I’m an introvert who can be quite socially awkward and anxious, but Sase’s warmth and compassion are so genuine they break down your walls right away, which in turn allows you to immediately get into the good stuff. After my first conversation with her I felt like we had known each other for years. The best part is, she makes you feel comfortable even when your default is discomfort, but without coddling you or making you feel like you need to be or act in any way that isn’t you.
What I mean by that is, she encouraged me to explore the uncomfortable or confused moments if/when I felt okay doing so, and this eventually led to us making even more valuable discoveries together. She truly listens, and she truly tries to understand you all the while facilitating your own understanding of yourself.
Sase has a talent for motivating and inspiring you without ever pushing you or putting any kind of pressure on you. And even though I’m someone who generally wants and needs structure to be productive, I feel like her methods and her personality taught me how to begin figuring out how to be accountable to myself, which is huge.
She also has this remarkable way of asking all the right questions to help you find the insights for yourself, which makes them all the more profound and lasting, and ultimately equips you with the skills and tools to continue the work on your own. In other words, Sase is definitely more about teaching you how to fish rather than giving you the fish. Which in all honesty probably isn’t good business, but at the same time there’s no doubt in my mind that Sase is and always has been in the business of helping people first and foremost.
I’m something of a challenging client, I go off on tangents and am prone to indecisiveness and convolutedness. But Sase was so attuned to my needs that she somehow managed to decipher all of the chaos I threw at her and keep me on a clear track throughout our sessions. Although the journey wasn’t always straightforward, she was always able to find meaning and use in every detour and obstacle, and the ultimate results were astonishingly cohesive and straightforward!
Her specialty is reclamation, and in the space of four weeks we were able to tackle two vital aspects of my life in need of reclaiming- friendships and writing. Without going into too much detail, but to share some of the core facts of my life coaching experience- I began my sessions with Sase as someone who’d been stalled in a debilitating writer’s block for years and had never been the first to reach out to a friend after a fight (and thus had lost far more friendships than I’d maintained).
Thanks to the life coaching with Sase, not only have I reconnected with one of the best friends I’ve ever had and cleared up the misunderstanding that caused our fall out, we are also now closer than ever. Mustering the courage, and letting go of the pride, necessary to instigate this, was practically inconceivable to me before Sase and I started our work. A month later, writing and sending the message that led to me getting my best friend back was inconceivably effortless. It had been the right thing to do all along, but deep-rooted fears and insecurities had gotten in the way of my being able to recognize that for quite some time.
In less than the span of a month, Sase enabled me to meet my goals and then some. Even though we were only supposed to work on one theme, one reclamation agenda if you will, Sase’s flexible and fluid life coaching style led to another major breakthrough for me. Awhile back I failed to complete, or even come remotely close to completing, a very important writing project. Something that I had once loved and found solace in had become riddled with anxiety and distress, and after blowing my big chance I took a break that went unbroken far longer than I’d intended.
I can now proudly say that I did not let that failure define my relationship to writing, or dictate my ability to finish a piece of writing or meet a deadline, and that is in large part due to Sase. I still have a long way to go, but for the first time I’m writing and thinking about writing with joy again rather than with reluctance or panic attacks. And these are just the tangible outcomes of our sessions, not to mention the bucket load of conceptual strides that went into and facilitated this progress.
It is truly an emancipating and life-changing experience to confront a different perspective that objectively is so simple and logical and even obvious, but initially seems utterly new and foreign and wrong just because it’s at odds with your own perspective/thought processes that have been etched and hardwired into brain circuitry through repeated use. And that’s what Sase’s life-coaching is, mind-opening.
Moreover, Sase’s like a bespoke life coach- she tailors everything to you in the way that fits best. My husband is actually now doing a life coaching series with her right now too, and we’ve shared the odd tidbit with one another here and there and realized how unique our sessions have been, but how well they correspond to our unique personalities.
It’s also worth noting that I’m not someone who gives glowing praise like this lightly. I’m someone who has seen over a dozen mental health professionals in the last decade, and only felt that two, maybe three, of them, actually helped. Someone who has been told cognitive behavioral therapy doesn’t work on her because of her cyclical overwrought overthinking overanalytical mental tendencies. Which isn’t to say life coaching is a type of therapy, it isn’t, but therapy comprises the most comparable experiences I have to draw from.
The biggest thing that makes life coaching different from therapy is also probably what I appreciate most about it- you look forward/ahead, rather than back. You figure abstract things out so that you can figure out how to concretely DO something about them. Or at least, Sase’s life-coaching takes this active approach, I can’t speak to any others as I’ve not seen any other life coach, nor do I ever plan on seeing any other life coach.
Have you ever seen someone so in their element, so good at what they do that they make it seem effortless, that you suddenly get this glorious life-affirming feeling wash over you? Because you’re basically witnessing someone do what it is clear they were born to do, and for one reassuring moment everything makes sense and seems right in the world? This happened to me on multiple occasions during my life coaching sessions with Sase. She is just so gifted at, and passionate about, this work, I can’t imagine how anyone could be a better life coach. And, perhaps more importantly, if you’re someone who doesn’t feel like there’s any aspect of your life where you have that perfect harmony, where everything just feels right because you get to do something that you’re brilliant at and just care about and love so much, then Sase will help you find that.
The life coaching with Sase far outstripped my initial expectation. Not only was it ‘useful’, but it was insightful, inspiring and a truly powerful experience.
I am a writer (before my life coaching sessions I would have said that I am an aspiring writer, despite the completion of two novels) and what I wanted to get out of the process was more efficient working practices. Oftentimes, I would lose the love of my work; feel suddenly disinterested, or have huge crises of confidence, which would leave me unable to finish pieces of work that I really needed to complete, and that I knew I was fully capable of completing.
These crises left me feeling thoroughly uncomfortable, and that discomfort would make any meaningful introspection really difficult to come by. Each time I went through one of my ‘dry spells’, I would understand that there was a problem, I just didn’t know what the problem was and what I could do to fix it. I have suffered these bouts of what I believe is something akin to artistic depression all of my adult life, and I had begun to assume that they were just part-and-parcel of who I was, and that they were just part of my process. But, they left me feeling utterly demoralised, and the dark moods those bleak periods caused would bleed out into all other aspects of my life.
This is where Sase stepped in. I’m not sure whether she is a witch, or a voodoo priestess, but immediately she scraped away the surface level of fear that was crippling me, and pierced straight through the web of nonsense to the core of whatever issue was stopping me from achieving what I wished to achieve. She didn’t tell me what was wrong, she didn’t demand of me any answers, she just used her immense intuition to guide me to my own discoveries. This point cannot be stressed highly enough; the confidence I gained from finding my own answers was an integral part of this process, and I vehemently believe that I did not have the tools at hand to find them alone.
She did not diagnose, she did not demand, but she asked me vital questions at vital moments (which it seemed she had been building to throughout the session) and somehow, the answers were almost always staring me in the face, despite my prior inability to see them.
The first session was an introduction to what life-coaching is, and how the future sessions might be guided. At the beginning of each of the following hours, Sase would ask what I wanted to talk about, and I would hone in on some specific moment or feeling that had caused my motivation to atrophy during the previous week. After that, we would delve in to what caused that feeling, and how we might look at the same situation from a different perspective which would transform that moment into something entirely different. This explanation of what we went through feels remarkably simplistic, but Sase’s beautiful insight and intuition made the experience so deep, complex and, ultimately, incredibly satisfying.
The five weeks I spent in life-coaching sessions with Sase were a true privilege. I have tried therapy before, but it is a costly and usually frustrating endeavor. The time spent with Sase was much more directed towards the issues that have previously plagued me and caused me specific anxieties, and solving those problems has had positive repercussions in all other aspects of my life too. I will finish by saying that I could not recommend Sase more highly. She is a spectacular person and I do not doubt that she is already one of the very best life coaches out there.
Thank you Sase, you have no idea how much you have helped me. I’ll be grateful to you forever.
Sas brings a unique perspective to the coaching relationship. Over the past few months I have worked with Sas on a range of issues from career to personal relationships. She brings the same gentle and insightful presence to every conversation regardless of the topic. She is incredibly kind, warm, and open, making her an easy coach to open up to and share. From my first conversation with Sas, I felt like I was talking to a friend who “got me”.
She has a beautiful, poetic, perspective on life that she brings to the conversation. Her incredible life experiences has given her a depth of emotion and perspective that provide incredible insight into the coaching conversation.
She has an ability to see the beauty that lies within each person and to bring that beauty to the surface through her coaching conversations. Her insight has helped me to move forward on the topic we discuss in a way I didn’t anticipate. Her compassionate approach really helped me to not only chart my path to success, but gave me the confidence that I was missing to achieve my goals. I would recommend Sas as a coach for anyone who wants to have a profound evolution occur in their life.