Who is Bird & Spoon?

Sarah Ellis received her Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Advanced Practitioner certificate from the Sonya Sophia School of Living Arts in April 2021. Sarah has her B.A. in Agriculture Business Management from Texas State University and before finding EFT, built her career in corporate communications. Sarah now supports her clients through private EFT sessions, group EFT sessions, lectures, and mindfulness courses. She joyously shares her passion for EFT and stress management practices with individuals and communities for the goal of healing on a global scale. 

 

Bird & Spoon came to life when she was visiting her family. She was making a pair of earrings and talking about life with her parents. Birds have inspired humans for all of time, connecting our souls through flight and hope, to other worlds. A little gold spoon she uses in beading then lead to the idea of feeding one’s soul, tying in Sarah’s dream of helping people enjoy their lives more. Bird & Spoon stuck. Through her Heal Yourself program, she hopes to assist others in finding the medicine and power within. Sarah believes that anyone can live a life of ease, joy and abundance if there is proper release of our bonds with the past and worries of the future. While a person can’t change what has happened, she believes you can change the way it makes you feel today, in this moment, and beyond.

 

Beginning in high-school and through most of her adult life, Sarah struggled with severe depression and anxiety, thinking it was something she just had to live with. As an adult, traditional therapy helped for a while, but she hit a glass ceiling and kept dipping into cycles of severe lows. After she embraced emotional healing using alternative and natural healing modalities in 2018, she found herself on a path that led her to EFT in early 2020. Since then, she has practiced EFT almost daily and believes that it is a tool that anyone can learn and benefit from. 

 

“The first step for me was releasing the belief that I’d never be able to feel better. I really had to wrap my head around letting go of the identity I had built for myself of being an anxious and sad person under the skin, and saying goodbye to that person who had made it so far. I could have stayed there and lived as-is, but I felt like there had to be more. It was a loving and necessary goodbye. I was blessed to divinely cross paths with friends and healers at opportune times who I witnessed as living truly peaceful lives, confidently staying in their power and knowing how to ground themselves when needed. I started wondering how I could become more steady with my peace and that curiosity allowed me to look inward with care and patience. I was able to address the blockages that made me live more than 30 years in cycles of feeling unloved, unworthy, anxious and constantly worried. I can look at my past and know that the stories that held me back no longer resonate with me. I’m free. Things still come up, but I can process the feelings in minutes or seconds, instead of sitting in the cycle for months or even years.”

 

Through Sarah's Heal Yourself program, she offers support and nourishment for the soul through the use of EFT, stress management lectures and her Cultivating Mindfulness course options. Sarah’s Treat Yourself branch of Bird & Spoon provides inspiration and care through lovingly-crafted custom jewelry to the physical parts of us that need loving attention.

 

A small town native from Woodson, TX, Sarah now lives east of Austin with her spouse of 13 years, two dogs, three cats, chickens and two horses. Sarah loves to garden, cook, and sit with nature. She’s very close to her family, loves her animals, and is truly in awe of our journeys on this planet. She knows that learning is never done, and welcomes life’s challenges, as she believes they are a spotlight on where to grow next.