Sara Avant Stover

Sara Avant Stover is a Level 3 Certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) practitioner, trained intuitive, three-time author and mentor specializing in women's spiritual entrepreneurship. She helps women in spiritual leadership who have done deep inner work bring what is growing inside them into fuller form in the world, integrating IFS, more than 25 years of mentoring women and 30 years of practice in feminine spirituality.

She graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University, Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. Soon afterward, a health scare led her to Thailand, where she lived for nearly a decade and became one of the leading yoga and spiritual teachers in Southeast Asia at that time. After returning to the U.S. in 2008, she published The Way of the Happy Woman, and she was among the first women to bring this work online. Her other books include The Book of SHE and Handbook for the Heartbroken.

Her approach, the her Self Method, roots work in the Sacred World, brings harmony to the Inner World through IFS, and builds the Outer World through structure, visibility and grounded action. She says she does not believe in hustle culture or quick fixes, and favors inner wisdom before external strategy and self-led decisions over fear-based ones.

Sara has led retreats featured in The New Yorker, mentored tens of thousands of women worldwide, and been a guest on many podcasts, often speaking about heartbreak, grief and transformation. She hosts the her Self Podcast and lives in Bordeaux, France, with her husband and their rescue dog, Sadie.