Welcome to High Road to Healing
I’m Sherold Barr — master life coach, author, and host of the High Road to Healing podcast. In 2017, I survived a near-fatal accident in the Baja Desert that changed everything. Six surgeries and a long, hard road later, I found what I had spent fifty-eight years running from — and toward.
I write for the person I used to be.
The one who is achieving and exhausted, and quietly empty inside. The one who is numbing out in ways they aren’t proud of. The one who doesn’t have a psalm yet and wouldn’t know how to pray if they tried. The one who is about to meet their own Baja desert and doesn’t know it yet.
I want you to know that the way back to yourself exists. I know because I found it.
And I left the trail markers here for you.
What Brought Me Here
My father handed me a belief when I was sixteen that ran my life for the next fifty-eight years: Don’t depend on anyone. You have to take care of yourself.
He meant well. But I took it to heart — all the way to heart. I became a woman who was good at everything self-sufficiency required. I built two businesses. I chased success. I kept moving because stopping felt dangerous. I didn’t have a spiritual life. I didn’t have an interior life. I was operating on a frequency where you earned your safety and depended on no one. Including God.
Then came the Baja Desert. A car accident that should have killed me. An ambulance that appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the Mexican desert — right after the crash.
I didn’t summon that ambulance. I didn’t earn it. It simply came.
During my near-death experience after my third abdominal surgery due to blunt force seat-belt trauma, a voice asked me:
You get to choose how you go through this experience. What will you choose?
I chose consciousness. I chose love. And that choice changed everything.
What followed was a map I didn’t know I was walking until I looked back at it: surrender, grief, acceptance, love, gratitude, forgiveness, trust, faith. Not as concepts — as a path I walked on my hands and knees through the hardest years of my life.
I come from a lineage of women who knew how to survive what should have broken them.
My grandmother lived to 101 with Psalm 23 marked in her bible. My mother Dorothy, her daughter, is 98½ — we call her the Terminator — and she has carried losses that would floor most people, on nothing but faith she never once put down.
The accident cracked me open to what was already in my bloodline, waiting.
Now I wake up every morning and pray — not for what I want, but that His (Her) will be done, not mine. I pray my Higher Power (I call HP) will use me since I came back from almost death. That single shift, from my will to thy will, is the whole distance I traveled.
From don’t depend on anyone — to I am God’s (HP’s) girl.
What I Write About
You always have a choice. Consciousness is the high road. Free will is your superpower.
High Road to Healing teaches you how to choose consciousness over fear — in real time, through real life. Topics include:
Consciousness work — Byron Katie’s inquiry, David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness, and how to question the fearful beliefs running your life.
Trauma to transformation — surrender, grief, acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and love. Choosing differently when life breaks you open.
Practical spiritual tools — how emotions affect our vibrational frequency.
Aging consciously — Aging as a spiritual practice, and what your soul is asking of you. BTW, life is a spiritual practice!
Money mindset — How subconscious beliefs sabotage abundance and what to do about it.
Grounding in turbulent times — How to stay rooted in love and gratitude when the world feels on fire.
Who I Am
I’m a master life coach and consciousness teacher with 25 years of building businesses and helping people transform their lives. I’ve spent 16 years coaching clients on consciousness, money blocks, and life transformation. I’m a student of David Hawkins’ Map of Consciousness, Jungian psychology, Martha Beck coaching, and Byron Katie, with 700 hours of training at the Institute for The Work. In 2016, I became a Kundalini yoga teacher, not to teach classes, but to go deep into breath and mantra for myself. I’ve spent six years learning to write truth on the page, and I plan to self-publish my memoir in 2027.
I live in Portland, Oregon, with my husband John, a retired ER physician, and our Australian Labradoodle, Teddy. I’m an avid gardener, love hiking and camping in our 19’ Airstream named Bambi. I’m thrilled to have a three-year-old grandson and another one on the way who lives nearby.
Nature and animals have helped me heal from all the hard times life has brought. One of my friends once gave me a reference for a dog breeder. She told them, “We all want to come back as Sherold’s dog in the next lifetime.”
That tells you most of what you need to know about me.
What You Receive
Free subscribers receive full access to all my posts on trauma recovery, fear transformation, and consciousness — personal stories, memoir insights, and practical tools you can use today.
Paid subscribers ($5/month or $50/year) receive everything above, plus:
Free monthly Gatherings on the High Road — intimate live Zoom experiences where we learn, write, and do the inner work together. These are not webinars. They are gatherings. There’s a difference.
Deep-dive teachings on the Map of Consciousness, guided meditations, and healing practices.
Early access and special pricing to Sherold’s classes and workshops.
All recordings sent after each Gathering.
This Is For You If:
You’re a seeker, a sensitive soul, or someone life has cracked open. You want practical tools, not more theory. You’re ready to question everything you’ve been conditioned to believe. You know there’s a choice point in every moment — and you’re ready to use it.
You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
With love, Sherold
What readers say
“I love reading what you write because it is raw and real, which takes me to a meaningful place. I look forward to receiving more Awakening to the Truth notes. Thank you.”
—Kay Van Patten
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