The Skin Wytch's Secrets to Holistic Health and Balance | Episode 32

Get ready to journey into holistic wellness with our special guest, Sarah Marolia. Known as the Skin Wytch, Sarah is a face yoga teacher and an advanced facial massage expert. Her expertise and passion for natural treatments will guide you towards understanding the true potential of your face and body to heal itself. In this enlightening conversation, Sarah shares her journey into holistic therapies and how self-care can be as simple as cooking a healthy meal. Be prepared to learn how face yoga and facial massages can not only enhance your skin but contribute towards your overall well-being.

In the second part of our conversation, Sarah bravely shares her personal story of overcoming addiction and how it led her to her current path. She emphasises the unique nature of facial muscles compared to the rest of the body, underlining the need for a dedicated and ongoing commitment to face yoga and massage. Taking us further into her holistic approach, Sarah opens up about how her practices have allowed her to release tension, improve circulation, and open up her face, contributing to an overall sense of wellness.

Finally, we delve into Sarah's personal life and transformation, exploring how her passion for skin massage therapy and crystals has helped her strike a healthy work-life balance. She draws us into her world of nature-based spirituality, showing us how it has helped her find peace and balance. Sarah also provides a heartwarming glimpse into her personal life with her beloved English bulldog, a constant reminder to take time out and relax. Wrapping up our insightful conversation, Sarah shares her morning and evening face yoga routines and leaves us with valuable advice for a healthier, happier, and more balanced lifestyle. Tune in for an episode full of heartfelt sharing, expert advice, and inspiration for self-care and holistic wellness.

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Transcript

Joanne Lee: 0:53

Welcome to episode 32 of our Full Spectrum Wellness Podcast. I am so happy and excited to be back here with you for our 32nd episode. Today, I welcome a very special guest, my friend and fellow therapist, sarah Morolia, aka the Skin Witch.

Joanne Lee: 1:12

Sarah is a dedicated face yoga teacher, advanced facial massage expert and knowledgeable skin professional With a profound passion for the face and its inherent beauty. Sarah wholeheartedly believes in the transformative power of natural treatments. Sarah's expertise lies in guiding individuals on a journey towards rejuvenation and radiance through the practice of face yoga and advanced facial massage techniques, and I've benefited from both Sarah's face yoga classes and her amazing facial massages, so I can absolutely recommend her if you live locally to Tame side. With her deep understanding of the body's natural healing abilities and the intricate mechanics of the face, sarah empowers her clients to unlock their true potential for youthful and glowing skin. Sarah's unwavering commitment to her craft and to her clients makes her a trusted and sought-after practitioner in the field of facial wellness.

Joanne Lee: 2:10

Through her teachings and natural treatments, Sarah aims to inspire and enlighten others about the profound benefits that can be achieved by working with the body's inherent wisdom to heal itself, and in this podcast episode, Sarah will be speaking a little more about her work, but also about her own wellness journey. I hope you enjoy it. Hello, Sarah, welcome to our Full Spectrum Wellness podcast. I'm so happy that you're here. Thank you so much for joining us and for sharing your experiences and your story. I wanted to start by asking you what the word wellness means to you.

Sarah Marolia: 2:52

Well, I suppose it means different things to me now than it used to do. You know, because when I first got into my like holistic journey and stuff, what I think about wellness is kind of evolved. You know, like, and even though as a holistic therapist, we tend to like think about wellness, like, even though I know it's for us as well, we tend to think of it as something for other people.

Sarah Marolia: 3:18

So, like now, further down the line, I am like looking after my own wellness more even though you kind of think you are already, but then you don't, you're just looking after everybody else. So, just recently, I'm just making sure, you know, I take care of myself a bit better as well, and, you know, make sure I take time off, you know, for my own self-care as well. So, yeah, I think that's really important when you're, you know you're looking after other people and doing like holistic services. You know, to practice what you preach as well, even though we do try, because we give us that way.

Joanne Lee: 3:57

It's so easy. It's a slippery slope, isn't it? We kind of try and prioritise our own self-care and wellness, but we kind of want to be there for everyone else, and it's it just slowly ticks away if you're not very careful that you end up in bottom of the of the priority list, so I'm glad that you're taking that initiative and really being careful to make time for yourself.

Sarah Marolia: 4:19

It's took a while. You know like it's, I'm just trying. I'm just like do me set days, and it's really hard to say no when people say, oh, can you just fit me in because you want to do them and and when you love what you're doing as well. But yeah, like you said, you're not careful, you end up doing too much. So I'm really kind of, you know, making an alternative to really stick to what I say, yeah, and take time for yourself because, yeah, and doing things like not just necessarily, not like going for a massage or a sparring, things like that, things like just taking care, like cooking healthy meals for when I am working, you know, like just like preparation pretty it's not anything really exciting, but just general.

Sarah Marolia: 5:00

It's like simple things, you know, just simple.

Joanne Lee: 5:04

Those simple things are so important and underrated. I think life doesn't have to be exciting every minute of the day. It's important to be those simple things.

Sarah Marolia: 5:15

Yeah, just to keep things running as smooth as the can. Smooth like and just like, yeah, being peaceful, and just yeah, getting ready for things. That's what it means to me anyway.

Joanne Lee: 5:31

When did you first become interested in holistic therapies, and particularly your specialist facial treatments that you do?

Sarah Marolia: 5:37

Well, I started in probably 2010. That's when I first got interested in holistic therapies, because the first thing I did which probably a lot of people do is I did a crystal course that's probably where I met you, in Crystal Carrol's, yeah and then Reiki, and then I thought what can I use this bed for? Because I bought like a therapy bed and that was it. Then I never stopped since I went to like.

Sarah Marolia: 6:05

I went to Oldham College and did like holistic therapies diploma for a year and that was like 40 I think it was 43 then.

Sarah Marolia: 6:13

So, yeah, and then I started getting interested in skin, probably probably about four or five years, and it's just kind of evolved really from them and it's like mainly skin now and face yoga, everything to do with the face, are different, like massage based face shows, because that's what, even though it's like a body worker for a long time, so that's kind it's kind of evolved into all about the skin, but like natural facial rejuvenation and techniques, you know, and I teach people how to take care of their own like faces, you know, like teaching them face yoga and facial massage to do on the self. But, yeah, people think it's like just a bunch of exercises to do on your face, but it's about how it makes you feel. Again, it's not just about oh yeah, I want to look younger, even though people come to it sometimes for the aesthetic benefits, but then they start realising how it makes you feel inside, because really that is more important and if you feel good inside, you end up looking better too, absolutely.

Joanne Lee: 7:19

I can highly recommend your face yoga classes. They are amazing and so good for it. I don't think people realise how much tension they hold in their face, in their jaw. It's then travels down to the neck and to shoulder problems that everything is connected.

Sarah Marolia: 7:37

Yeah, because we hold a lot of them. We can hold like stuck emotions in the face because, like the other muscles in the body, they're just like functional, but for your face they're likely have like mimic muscles and it's our means of communication, you know, it's like the only animal that can like communicate through facial expressions is like the human being. So we can hold like stuck emotions and negative, you know, like, and they can become like. Well, we hold our issues in our tissues and people think, like you said, about the neck and the shoulders and stuff, but it's, it's all connected. The jaw can get really tight and get pain around the teeth and likely to neck problems, like you said. So it's, it's, it's a wellness thing as well.

Joanne Lee: 8:21

It's not just about yeah, it makes you look younger, absolutely that stretching, releasing, breathing, the posture but it's all good stuff it is, and so I have to let people know that you are actually my massage therapist and I have your facial treatments because it helps with TMJ for me. I hold a lot of tension in my jaw or grind my teeth and grit my teeth at night in particular and when I'm stressed so that that specialist service that you do, that's very bespoke, I know you tailor it to exactly what we need as a client. And then the fact that you do intra-oral, so you do inside, your massage from the inside, that's what really helps me to release that tension, and not a lot of people offer that service.

Sarah Marolia: 9:05

Yeah, I do get a lot of people just recently and they come from all over, like Manchester, you know, like because they're kind of looking that up on the internet so you know it's surprising people coming because they've got jaw pain.

Sarah Marolia: 9:20

So, yeah, it is really helpful. And, as well, I teach them how to do it when people come for that, because, even though it's okay coming for like a treatment, but it's kind of you know, I'd like to show them how to do it on the self, you know, so they can release the muscles on a daily basis. You know, empowering them not just, you know, so they've got self-care tools so they can do it the self as well. So before they have the treatment, we stood in front of the mirror mirror and I said better to be doing your own?

Sarah Marolia: 9:50

Yeah, but yeah, I do get them on the couch and give them a nice treatment, but it's helpful because you know it's like giving them tools, what they can use, the self so yeah, absolutely, and I could say it's so surprising how that can help release that tension.

Joanne Lee: 10:07

Yeah, the first time you did it I was like I was a bit apprehensive because I don't really like going to the dentist so the fact that you were going to put your fingers inside my mouth kind of triggered me a little bit for dentist visits. But I have to say that that first time you did it I could not believe the difference in my jaw and you could actually see because you take before and after photographs.

Sarah Marolia: 10:26

Yeah, and it does, even though it feels better obviously. But it's like when we've got tension in the jaw, it can I would first can take on a quite a square appearance, you know like because it's muscley, and then, and if we've got like tension in the jaw, we can get like a puffy face as well, because the lymphatic fluid is like restricted and doesn't force freely as it might do. So so yeah, it can kind of give you a little lift, like a natural face lift, just by releasing tight muscles. You know, even without doing any exercises to tone your face up, just by releasing that tension, it can kind of spring things back up again, that's what I was blown away by the first time that you took the before and after pictures.

Joanne Lee: 11:09

The difference between releasing that tension and then the before picture was just amazing. So, yeah, I highly recommend that, if you are holding attention in that you draw you, you make an appointment to see Sarah, because it is. It is that kind of can't say any more than it is amazing. You are also known as the Skin Witch, aren't you? Oh yeah, I want to know about that journey to becoming that skin expert and actually setting up that side of your business.

Sarah Marolia: 11:44

Yeah, because when I started getting into facials and skin and like like facials, you know, because my treatments, even though I use like clinical grade products as well, for me healthy skin relies on movement beneath the surface. It doesn't. The answer is not an apothecary, even though it is important what we're putting on our skin. You know we don't have to put any nasty paraben, parabens or preservatives, things like that. But it's not the whole story. So so with the massage based facials, but even that, so because clients have come, I felt like there was something missing, it wasn't enough. So when clients have come, they say how long is it going to last the results? I started practicing facial yoga myself and then I decided to become a teacher because I thought that's the missing link, because it's like even though even if someone came monthly for a facial, you know like and you get really good, so do get really good results, like with the face sculpting, you know like. But I thought what if there was doing something every spell? They don't have to do it every day, but you know like doing some a little bit of facial massage or exercises and that's and that's like kind of my client's homework. Because when they said to me, how long is it going to last the results? And I said well, that kind of depends on how much effort you want to put in yourself as well. They don't always want to know that, but for true, for true, long term, lasting results. It's like if you were doing a little bit yourself, a few exercises. You can even do them in the mirror. You know like, you don't have to do it, spend like ages doing it every day. But I thought it's accumulative effect of these little bits of like massage, exercise, lymphatic drainage, that kind of you know like makes all the difference. So even if somebody comes for a facial once a month, they are going to get benefit. And it doesn't mean, let's face it, you can't beat somebody else giving you a facial, but you still get the benefit. Doing things yourself like on a regular basis. That's where the real magic lies. You know in yourself care as well, not just like sticking creams on, but you know like getting everything moving under the surface.

Sarah Marolia: 13:53

It kind of evolved from like learning about skin and facial massage to then kind of I kind of try and empower people so they can do things for the self as well, even though it's great that they can comfort treatments and take that time out and have someone else do the work. But you know like it's I've got some pictures from people who've been doing face yoga with me and I'm not kidding, it's like the face is more open, the tension is just made it away. So I felt like that was like the final kind of bit of the jigsaw. You know like a 360 degree approach. You know like, and again it's boils down to self care. You know, because we exercise our bodies and stuff and it's only the same. The face got muscles and and you know we get tension in it, like you were saying. So releasing tensions, importance and even so in the muscles, like, like we do with our body.

Sarah Marolia: 14:48

You know, a lot of facial muscles.

Joanne Lee: 14:51

So we forget, we just, you know, people will go to the gym and they'll be busy working out the shoulders and the legs, but we forget about the face.

Sarah Marolia: 15:00

Yeah, and it's like it's and the muscles in the face. They are different from the body because they're a lot smaller and thinner and flatter. So they do, you know, once you start doing it, exercising your face and massaging you do see a different, quite quickly difference because it takes it doesn't take as long to get them into shape, which is a good thing, because everybody these days we want to quick fix, but there is no quick fix with natural methods. You know it does take commitment but yeah, it doesn't have to be lengthy.

Joanne Lee: 15:36

Yeah, and it's not just about how it looks, it's about how you feel that I know for me having my facial treatments for you helps with my migraines. I don't get as many if I'm keeping up with those exercises for the facial muscles, because a lot of that tension we hold in the face can lead to headaches or migraines, definitely.

Sarah Marolia: 15:55

And you know like, yeah, it just leaves this like stagnation. You know when, when the muscles are tight, you know because the blood so even though the blood circulations is still working, Otherwise who won't be working at an optimal level like because because the the blood's bringing fresh oxygen and nutrients to your skin and then the waist is coming down, so it's like an elevator, so your neck is like the gateway to your face, so all the the good stuff's coming up and all the waste it's like the fat, is like your waste disposal Taking every day Like it is and that tension restricting, you know, on the movement.

Sarah Marolia: 16:36

So yeah, it's keeps everything flowing Absolutely.

Joanne Lee: 16:42

I'm really interested to hear and to share with our listeners about your own wellness journey and some of the challenges that you've faced with your own health and wellness.

Sarah Marolia: 16:51

Well, people are quite surprised when they're telling this, but 20 years ago because I wasn't, because it's only 2010, which is 13 years ago started my holistic journey. But like 20 years ago, so before that, I was kind of the opposite. It's like I was battling addiction. I used to be addicted to alcohol and I don't make no secret of it because even on the website because when people see you know how far I've come it kind of, I hope you know, I don't mind sharing about that because I feel like it might help somebody else you know who's struggling with anything like that. You know, and it has got kind of a stigma because you know people feel sorry for people who've got like things like you know, like illnesses, like cancer or things like that. But with addiction there's a lot of stigma around it, you know, like some people might think, oh well, it's their own fault, just don't do it, but it is actually an illness. So so yeah, yeah, I was.

Sarah Marolia: 17:58

I was kind of really bad, not just like a drink problem. I was like to the point of we're almost not alive anymore. I was that bad. But but yeah, I managed to kind of pull myself out from that and, and I think really that's what started me on, you know, a more spiritual and holistic journey. It didn't happen right away, but yeah, because I wasn't interested in anything like that before. But I think it's kind of, you know, like a bit of an awakening when you've been told that but people can't believe it. Now this, you know, like they say, oh, you look so healthy and you know you don't believe it. But yeah, I used you know I'd be shaking in the morning, drinking vodka first thing in the morning, to stop myself from shaking.

Joanne Lee: 18:50

Really? S o what kind of health issues did that lead to?

Sarah Marolia: 18:57

Well for me it's like, because some people have got drink problems, you know, like it doesn't really affect them psychologically and the kind of the whole the life together, like function and alcohol it's your job, but then it might affect the health. Whereas I was lucky health wise, it didn't, you know, I recovered quite quickly, even though it was quite bad. Yeah, it made me more kind of psychologically, you know, emotionally, mentally, you know like my whole life fell apart. You know like I lost everything, yeah. So even though you know I bounce back physically quite quickly, but for me it affected me more in that way, you know. So I did literally lose everything. So I had to just start from scratch.

Sarah Marolia: 19:50

So, yeah, I was really really thin and hardly eating anything at the time. So, yeah, I want particular healthy physically. But you know there was no long term damage. So I was quite lucky in that respect. Yeah, so I don't drink at all now, and it's not that I'm against drinking, it's just not for me, because you know, when you've been to that point where you are that bad, I just, yeah, I just leave it alone, I don't touch it, but I don't, I'm not bothered anyway. Now it's like I don't miss it or anything like that. But yeah, so that was my main kind of thing, what I've had in life.

Joanne Lee: 20:29

Yeah, so do you feel like you've got a second chance,

Sarah Marolia: 20:36

yeah, you know. So 20 years ago, yeah, I wouldn't have thought you know, because I ended up in rehab for a whole year. I lost my house, my children, my driving license, you know everything really, and almost my life. But yeah, so, but yeah. So I've kind of turned things around now.

Joanne Lee: 21:01

But you are an inspiration, such inspiration.

Sarah Marolia: 21:06

I kind of sometimes I don't think, you know, I don't really think about it, but when people ask me I think, well, I suppose they have done really well. You know, and it's good to you know like people are quite open about it. You know, I don't mind people asking me. You know I never can help in a way I will, you know.

Joanne Lee: 21:29

Thank you for being so open and honest and sharing that. I'm sure there'll be lots of people listening that can relate to that, to that challenge, and hopefully you'll inspire them to kind of make those changes for themselves and, and yeah, healthy in mind, body and spirit. Now that you've got this second chance at life, what are you most passionate about? I know you're passionate about skin massage therapies Is there anything else? And you've got a crystal shop, so you're obviously passionate about crystals.

Sarah Marolia: 21:56

Yeah Well, yeah, yeah, I am passionate about my work, but then then you've got to be careful, because it's not just all about work. But you don't feel like when you're passionate about your work, you don't feel like it is work, do you? That's the danger, yeah. And they say, oh, you know, if you enjoy your job, you'll never work a day in your life, and it's true. But it, but yeah, I am. I like being outside. You know like I sit in the woods drumming with my witchy friends. But yeah, for anyone who's listening, yeah, it's just a nature-based thing what I do. So there's a group of us who have been together about well, about the same time since I started with the Holistic Therapies 2010. Quite a while. Then we go out and sit in the woods, we follow the seasons of the year. You know, like an open fire, my friend's got her own woods, so there, we do and they.

Sarah Marolia: 22:54

Yeah, so it's all like nature-based spirituality. Really, it's not about putting spells on people and things like that. What some people might watch, think see films on telly and think it's not Hollywood yeah, no, it's not anything like that. That's about me dog as well.

Joanne Lee: 23:15

Is he a bulldog?

Sarah Marolia: 23:16

Yeah, an English bulldog.

Joanne Lee: 23:17

Yeah, he's gorgeous, lovely and he's very big. I remember when you first got him and he was a tiny puppy and now he's huge.

Sarah Marolia: 23:27

He's like a big teddy bear. We sometimes bring him to the shop, but a lot of the time we leave him at home now, because he's just comfy and you know, sleepy. He likes to sleep alot.

Joanne Lee: 23:41

He's got the right idea.

Sarah Marolia: 23:44

Yeah, yeah, he's a good dog.

Joanne Lee: 23:48

So we've talked about how, how easy it is to to overwork when you love what you do and you do what you love. How do you manage that work-life balance?

Sarah Marolia: 23:58

Well, I've limited my days in what I'm doing my treatments. So I only do three days, even though sometimes you know like I've kind of you know like, oh, I'll just put some on this day or that. But I'm really trying to be strict now for myself really, just so I can look after myself more, because I do work online, because I'm online every single day really doing my classes, so that work even though, again, you don't see it as work, I hope my classes are only like 20 minutes long so I keep them that short so they're long enough to be effective and short enough so people can fit me into the life. So I'm still doing that. But you know when I'm not at work, doing treatments and planning my classes out for the next week and you know things like that. There's all sorts of things, as you know what you need to do in a business and then cook in and things like that.

Sarah Marolia: 24:54

So it all needs to be done. So I thought, no, I need to, y ou know, stick to what I say now and do that and just work on set days actually doing treatments. Even those are the hardest stuff to do.

Joanne Lee: 25:08

Yeah, yeah, Its kind of just really about being disciplined with yourself once you make that decision.

Sarah Marolia: 25:17

Yeah, because it's like. It's like therapists and healers. We've got, you know, like your boundaries. You've got to, even though you think you know we're all about giving and stuff. But it's really important to maintain your own boundaries and that doesn't mean like being horrible, it just means looking after yourself. It's just another form. But it's easy, especially for people like us, to over give, and I've been guilty of that. You know give too much of everything really.

Sarah Marolia: 25:53

like being out in nature, so you know like, and I do that going, you know, out with sitting in the woods and stuff, with the fight of drumming. We do sit around drumming as well.

Joanne Lee: 26:05

Drumming is so good for your health and well being.

Sarah Marolia: 26:08

Yeah, so I've got my own drum, what I made in Glacinbury at a Drum Birthing Workshop. So yeah, I find it hard to meditate, but when I'm doing that, you kind of just drop into that state, don't you? So yeah, and it's kind of doing something, because I find it hard to just sit there and think of nothing.

Joanne Lee: 26:31

I need to be doing something you know like.

Sarah Marolia: 26:33

But even you know, like I try to be mindful, even doing like Monday and tasks like washing up, just like kind of paying attention to like the bubbles and stuff you know not, not, not kind of thinking about anything else, just trying to be I'm so what I'm doing. So so even if I'm not doing anything like you know, going for a massage or a facial art, just like trying to be present, really, yeah, and in whatever I'm doing, I'm mindful and slow down, you know and. But yeah, and I like I like to have a nice hot bath with Epsom salts.

Joanne Lee: 27:09

That's a good one. What does your daily self-care routine look like?

Sarah Marolia: 27:14

Well, it always includes face yoga or facial massage. Yeah, you know, like, because that's what I'm doing in my classes, so it kind of forces me to do it, because I'm doing it Facial yoga club. But, yeah, I have to show up because that reminds me my facial yoga club is going to be one year old on the 18th of this month. So, yeah, so one year kept it going and get up at quarter six, because I show up at seven in the morning, not every day, but five mornings, and then I do the evening classes on the other days. But, yeah, I need to get up early, so then I can kind of, so I'm not just rolling out to bed going on the screen. So that always features in myself, karen.

Sarah Marolia: 28:03

But you know, again, I kind of have a tendency to get obsessed like with one thing and I really do need to kind of address the rest of my body, and I keep saying it and not doing it like we do. I need to like have some body yoga or doing something else, because I am aware, because I'm just doing that and you know so I'm trying to like get the balance where I'm doing something for the rest of me as well. So that's the thing with me. I'm just honest, you know, like I pretend, if I'm not doing something, I don't say, oh yeah, I'm doing this and that is. I'm realistic, and yeah, and that needs to change as well. I need to address things. But yeah, at least I'm doing my face, but yeah, it's really hard to fit everything in, isn't it what we want to do?

Joanne Lee: 28:48

Yeah, there's just not enough hours in the day.

Sarah Marolia: 28:52

And I'm hoping that I've just kind of like being more strict with how many days are worth that. Yeah, you know, do more self-care because it's really important and I'm realizing that more more so as I get older. You know self-care and I know we like to say it, but we really need to do it, don't we as well? Yeah, we need to practice what we preach.

Joanne Lee: 29:16

Definitely. What would you say are the most important lessons that you've learned in your life?

Sarah Marolia: 29:26

Yeah, I would say like, you know, like feeling like we're enough, like where we are right now, because it feels like sometimes we're always striving for the next thing, the next thing, and it's like you never arrive. And it's like, and I can be like that myself now. But it's not just about the destination, it's about the journey and kind of making the most of what you're doing right now. Not oh, there's this task and then then I'll be that. You know, like, if people like want to lose weight, or when I, when I lose weight, or when I get a new husband or boyfriend or whatever, I'll be happy.

Sarah Marolia: 30:02

But it's about kind of being happy right now with whatever you've got. You know it might not be perfect, but it's all we've got into it. And and like not comparing yourself with other people, because sometimes you know, like social media, instagram, facebook, you see, you know like experts in this and that and you think, oh, you know, if I just do this one more course and I'm guilty of that, get addicted to courses but we're, you know, we're enough anyway, whatever it is, we were, we weren't meant to be, right now and it's got to be enough, because that's all there is into it. And you know, not comparing yourself to what this person, that person's doing. You know, because comparison is the thief of joy, so they say.

Sarah Marolia: 30:42

And it really is, and just like I appreciate where we're at as well. And yeah, that's and being grateful grateful for what we've got instead of wishing what we had got with. You know what we have thinking about that.

Joanne Lee: 30:59

I love those lessons. They're fantastic yeah.

Sarah Marolia: 31:02

Yeah, because it is, isn't it? We have enough. All of us, we're all special and unique in our own way and we've got to believe it and believe in ourself. You know, we're, all you know, special in some way, you know, even though we might think we're quite ordinary, but there's always something. And yeah, so just kind of, yeah, embracing where we're at and who we are.

Joanne Lee: 31:28

Absolutely. And finally, what advice would you give to someone who wants to live a healthier, happier and more balanced lifestyle?

Sarah Marolia: 31:38

Well, I would say make time for yourself, even though you know often feels selfish. So it's not. It's like self care is like you can't pour from an empty cup, and I've learned that through experience. You've said giving too much and you know like looking after everybody else before yourself, but it's like you've got to look after yourself first. It's like being on a plane, I always tell you to put your oxygen in your ass comfort, but you know it's. You know especially women and all, that we're looking after others before us and sometimes well, not just sometimes we've got to look after ourselves as well. Otherwise, you know like you end up getting run down and, yeah, just overwhelmed with life and tired. So that's what my advice would be, you know like just to take time out for yourself and do the things you need to do, you know, to stay happy and healthy.

Joanne Lee: 32:40

I knew there would be great advice coming from the Skin Witch and my amazing massage therapist. I'm so grateful that you joined us today and I'm so happy that you were open and honest about sharing your story Because, like I said before, I'm sure that's going to help a lot of people be able to resonate with what you've been through. And we're all on a journey. We all have different experiences, but we're all connected by this common bond of getting through life and thriving rather than surviving. So you are a perfect example of that. You have literally survived and now you're thriving, and it's so wonderful to watch.

Joanne Lee: 33:19

I've watched your career progress and it's you've just blossomed. And yeah, I highly recommend t hat everyone checks out Sarah's amazing services. And, yeah, even if you have to get up at seven in the morning to do face yoga, it's totally worth it.

Sarah Marolia: 33:37

I had about. I think I had about six people online. I'm on Facebook live and some on Zoom, so they turn up in the pajamas. Yeah, there is usually someone. I'm not usually on my own, but yeah, monday they start and then they start trailing off by the week. I was on good intentions on a Monday, but yes, but there's always the replays. But it's really good to do it live because there's that connection in itself and yeah, it's not the same watching a video, but yeah, it's still getting it done into it. So when I can't turn up live, you know it's a different experience, but yeah, it's not for everyone getting up at that time. It's morning. Yeah, I do, I'm just I. Recently I did some evening classes. You know some people who can join in the evening. Well, you know, doing face massaging, more relaxing, slow paced ones.

Joanne Lee: 34:36

And I would imagine that gets you ready for a good night of sleep as well. Doing it at that time.

Sarah Marolia: 34:40

Yeah, so yeah, that's proven to be quite popular as well. So I tend to try and fit them in on the days where I'm not doing in the morning, like on a Thursday and Sunday evening, so there's always something going on. I don't really think about book the routine every day.

Joanne Lee: 35:00

Yeah, and you're so busy and I love watching you on social media as well. You give out lots of helpful tips and information to people and you do demonstrations as well, which is brilliant, so people can follow along. Make sure you take t ime for you.

Sarah Marolia: 35:20

Yeah.

Sarah Marolia: 35:21

I am doing, and after this I'm going to just go and lie under the LED till my next client comes, because I've just heard something the other day and I really like it. I can't remember where I heard it, but it's this Do something every day that makes you feel like you're on holiday. Oh, I love that. So that's my little bit of holiday today. Going under that it's good, isn't it? It's just like because it doesn't have to be something fancy, but just simple things. You know. Yeah, absolutely Like sitting out in your debt chair and this, yeah.

Joanne Lee: 36:01

And we've got beautiful weather. So, yeah,

Sarah Marolia: 36:04

Yeah, make the most of it.

Joanne Lee: 36:07

Thank you so much. Enjoy your time under the LED on your little mini holiday. Thank you so much for joining us today, Sarah.

Sarah Marolia: 36:16

Oh, it's been a pleasure. Thanks for having me on.

Joanne Lee: 36:22

I absolutely love chatting with Sarah for this episode. She is such an inspiration. She's literally turned her life around, started from scratch and embraced life, living each moment with passion and purpose. I hope you enjoyed listening and have been inspired too. Until next time, take care.