Dr. Sarah Sarkis – Ambassador

I’m a psychologist by training, and a certified executive and performance coach by practice. I also moonlight as a writer and speaker.

As a clinical psychologist, I learned and studied about psychological pathology: what happens when shit goes wrong. And believe me, a lot can go wrong.

In the decades I trained as a psychologist, I never had a class on happiness, contentment, or the science of wellness. I learned how to understand suffering, how to diagnose it, and how to sit with it. These are valuable skills, and I am so grateful to have this foundation.

But the truth is, I tired of the emphasis on suffering and on pathology. I felt restless and confined by those constraints. So, I went rogue.

I started with these questions:

• Is a sense of wellness even attainable anymore?

• Is wellness distinct from the absence of feeling like shit?

• What really, down deep, controls our behavior?

• Can we influence how we metabolize our experiences?

• And, what are the outer limits of our human potential when we use a radically different compass?