ABOUT Sarah in her own words:

I’m Sarah and I’m a recovering perfectionist and a serial burnout-overachiever. I’m also the Founder and Creator of Dreamgarten, a mom to two boys and a rescue dog, and a certified Qoya dance movement instructor. I started Dreamgarten because I see myself in so many other people who are showing up in their lives with this idea of perfection and the need for achievement in their work, in their relationships, and everywhere in between. And as a result, they are constantly navigating the overwork – burnout cycle, sometimes without even knowing what’s happening to their minds and bodies as a result.

In my own quest for perfection and achievement, I put myself last, made myself smaller, and burned myself out over and over again. Throughout school and into my professional life, I would work myself to sickness (mental or physical), take a vacation or a leave of absence and then go right back to it. Over time and to cope, I began to study methods to manage my own severe anxiety through yoga and dance.

I started to unravel my perfectionist, burnout-overachiever tendencies and help foster a deeper connection to my mind and body. I started to make space for a life that was less a pursuit of perfection and achievement and more a pursuit of grace, of spaciousness, of beauty, of meaning, of feeling everything, so that I could decide what was the next right action for me. At the same time, in my professional life, I began to create new ways of working because of the personal work I was doing myself. And vice versa, I started to apply the human-centered, design thinking methods I used to facilitate business problem solving to my personal questions. The more I practiced these methods, the more they worked their magic, and it’s scientifically based magic at that!

That’s where Dreamgarten was born, at the intersection of my own experiments to recover from burnout and my realization that I was not alone in placing society’s definition of success on my shoulders and seeking perfection and achievement to accomplish it. I began to use my methods at work as a leader with my team and with my friends in their personal endeavors. I believe that when you guide people to find what’s inside themselves and encourage them to think about the human at the center of any problem, the creativity they bring to solving those problems is endless.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahcwaylett/
https://www.amazon.com/Burnout-Secret-Unlocking-Stress-Cycle/dp/198481706X
https://dreamgarten.com/