25: Suicide Attempt Survivor to Comedy Star & Meditation Teacher // The Story of Sarah Taylor
Background:
Sarah Taylor is an award-winning actor, writer, and standup comedian based in Los Angeles. She has worked as a meditation teacher, energy healing practitioner, and awakening guide for nearly fifteen years and has helped people find their authentic well-being.
Having gone through her own radical transformation, often known as non-dual awakening, and in working as a mentor and energy healer for many years, Sarah is gathering her wisdom and wit and writing The Divine Mess: How To Be A Nobody In Hollywood. It’s a humorous and helpful book for anyone who yearns to find what spiritual seekers have sought for centuries, or for people who just want to take a deep breath and sleep better at night.
At The Hollywood Improv she has produced Cosmic Joke and now Weird Advice with Sarah Taylor & Friends in the Lab. Sarah takes The Divine Mess Show on tour, which is a one-of-a-kind experience that includes Sarah’s comedy with its unique point of view.
Time-Stamped Show Notes:
- 2:05 Sarah Taylor currently works as a meditation teacher and she is also a spiritual mentor and an energy healing practitioner. She teaches meditation in companies but she also does individual teaching.
- 3:42 Living in this moment right now can be very powerful, especially with the current COVID19 situation we are experiencing today.
- 8:34 When Sarah was 14 years old, she tried to commit suicide by taking a bottle of sleeping pills. As she was laying on her bed and drifting off, she saw a vision that gave her a strong sense of purpose.
- 13:31 Eric and Sarah talked about their previous jobs working as telemarketers, cocktail waitress, and delivery service.
- 15:22 Being too pressured to become a hugely successful actress, Sarah crumbled from its weight, which led her into therapy and antidepressants.
- 22:23 Her rockin’ it moments happened when she started meditating and doing healing works.
- 23:55 Sarah created a comedy show called The Divine Mess Show, which always ends with a meditation.
- 26:31 In 2015, her comedy show with a meditation did not seem to work out with the audience in LA.
- 30:59 Sarah shares her insight on silence, stillness, and thoughts.
- 33:07 Sarah continues to talk more about silence and stillness. According to her, our whole essence is silence and stillness, like a blank canvass.
- 37:07 At 17, she won the Irene Ryan Acting Award, which led her to perform in the Kennedy Center.
- 38:27 She gives a suggestion on how to live in the present moment.
- 41:04 In his teen years, Eric was a very shy person and has no idea of who he really was, which can be hard for some people to understand when they see him today with all his achievements.
- 42:32 If Sarah could go back in time and give her younger self a piece of advice, she would tell herself that it’s all about sharing and not showing.
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Key Points from the Interview:
- “I walked into the living room and I was like, hey mom and dad I have good news and bad news, the good news is I’m gonna be an actress, and the bad news is, I just swallowed a bunch of pills, so can you take me to the hospital.”
- “What meditation has really shown me through direct experience is that the mind is crystal clear, silent, and still. Which doesn’t mean that it’s wrong to have thoughts but we have to be able to see them for what they are, it’s just a thought. It’s not the truth.”
