Welcome to High Road to Healing
"You get to choose how you go through this experience. What will you choose?"
This question came to me during a near-death experience after a car crash nearly killed me in the Baja Desert of Mexico. After two surgeries in Baja hospitals, I was air evacuated to Sharp Memorial Hospital in San Diego for trauma. After my third abdominal surgery, I had a near-death experience (NDE) that completely changed my life. In the dark void between worlds, my spiritual guide asked me,
“You get to choose how you go through this experience. What will you choose?”
In my conscious unconscious state, I said telepathically,
“I don’t want to be a victim, so I’ll chose the high road. I’ll use love and gratitude to heal.”
That choice changed everything - how I healed and how I live my life today.
Welcome, I'm Sherold Barr
I trained as a master coach in 2010. I’m a serial entrepreneur who has built two six-figure businesses. I’m a survivor and thriver as a result of three unimaginable traumas. I’m living proof that your worst experiences can become your greatest teachers.
I grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee—a secret city created for the Manhattan Project, where children wore dog tags to identify their bodies after nuclear attacks. I learned early that you couldn't depend on anyone but yourself.
That conditioning nearly killed me.
I spent decades chasing success, first building Extraordinary Work Group, a high-tech PR firm that represented Microsoft's Healthcare Industry Solutions Group, which grew to gross revenues of half a million. Then, after my brother's death, I downsized my PR business and grieved for two years before training as a life coach. I became a master coach in 2010 and built my second six-figure coaching business.
But I was running from the truth that I didn't know how to trust myself, others, or life itself. Then came the whales.
While communing with mother and baby gray whales in Baja, I felt complete peace for the first time in a field of love where we felt like one. An hour later, the van we were riding in was involved in a near-fatal car wreck and was rear-ended and rolled off the highway into a boulder. I had five life-saving abdominal surgeries in fifteen days. I spent a week on a ventilator. And in a near-death experience, a profound voice telepathically asked me to choose what attitude I would use to go through this challenging experience.
I chose the high road, a path of love and gratitude to help me heal.
What I Learned
Awakening - moving into higher consciousness - isn't a destination—it's a choice you make moment by moment.
For more than two decades, I've helped hundreds of women discover what's true, rather than what their conditioned minds tell them is true. Because here's what I know for sure after surviving my brother's death, my son's life-threatening illness, and my near-death:
The thoughts that cause your suffering are lies.
You are not your thoughts. Your thoughts are created from your small self (ego). You are the awareness, your higher Self, that observes them. From that place, you have the power to choose your response to anything.
What You'll Find Here
This isn't feel-good spirituality. This is forged-in-fire wisdom for real life.
How trauma becomes your teacher.
The childhood beliefs that secretly run your adult life.
Practical tools for choosing love over fear.
The difference between your ego and True Self.
Why do you want to become more conscious in this life?
Why This Matters Now
We're living through collective trauma. When you stop believing every fearful thought, you stop adding to collective anxiety. When you choose love in daily interactions, you change your consciousness and energy field around you.
Your personal awakening is how we heal the world.
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For the seekers, the sensitive, and the soul-awakened. If life has cracked you open, you belong here.
Free subscribers receive: Weekly reflections + access to paid workshops plus free monthly Gatherings with Sherold.
Paid subscribers: Everything plus live Gatherings and free workshops on Clear Your Money Blocks, the Spiritual Practice of Aging, and more.
Coach with me: I coach people who are stuck or need support to start an online business and want mindset work and accountability, so their dream becomes a reality. Please email me at sherold@sheroldbarr.com, and I’ll send you my coaching information.
Sherold's writing is raw and real, and that's what makes it worth reading. She always makes me think." — Kay Van Patten
You are not what happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
Subscribe below and join others who are choosing consciousness over unconsciousness, love over fear, truth over comfortable lies.
With fierce love, Sherold
What You'll Find Here:
I write about my personal experiences of overcoming obstacles in my life.
Spiritual awakening and inner truth.
Resilience and growing through adversity.
Mindset and the beliefs that cause emotional suffering.
Practices for conscious living, aging, and healing.
My mission is to help you trust your own life experience—and stop suffering from thoughts and beliefs that hold you back. I offer grounded tools, personal stories, and soul-centered teachings to support your growth.
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Please subscribe below to begin your journey with us. Together, we’re awakening—gently, bravely, truthfully.
