Welcome to Awakening to the Truth
"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. In that moment, I chose the high road. I chose love over fear, gratitude over victimhood.
That choice changed everything.
I'm Sherold Barr
Master coach since 2010. Serial entrepreneur who built two six-figure businesses. Survivor of three unimaginable traumas. 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 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 a half-million-dollar revenue. Then, after my brother's death, 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. An hour later, our van was involved in a near-fatal car wreck and was rear-ended and rolled off the highway into a boulder. Five abdominal surgeries. A week on a ventilator. And that voice asking me to choose.
I chose the high road (not to become a victim) and used love and gratitude to healing.
What I Learned
Awakening isn't a destination—it's a choice you make moment by moment.
For over a decade, I've helped hundreds of women discover what's true versus what their conditioned minds tell them is true. Because here's what I know 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. You are the awareness 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 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 the 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-awake. If life has cracked you open, you belong here.
Free subscribers receive: Weekly reflections + workshop access ($49) and access to Salons with Sherold.
Paid subscribers: Everything plus live Salons on Clear Your Money Blocks, the Spiritual Practice of Aging, and more.
Coach with me: My coaching is currently closed, but you can send me your name and email to be added to my waitlist for September 2025. Please email me at sherold@sheroldbarr.com
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:
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 the 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.
