Ether and Thread

About the Founder

A practice born from lived experience and deep inquiry

"Healing is not the absence of pain — it is the integration of all that we are."

Sara is a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA) with over 20 years of experience providing anesthesia care, a spritual companion, wife, mother, and a trauma survivor. She serves as the Board Secretary of TASSC International in Washington DC - the only organization founded and led by torture survivors in the US and one of three in the world. Sara is a founding member of the Detroit Chapter of TASSC and is an active volinteer at Manna Community Meal Soup Kitchen in Corktown Detroit, where she also serves on the Board of Directors. Through Ether and Thread, Sara works to ensure that survivors are the primary voices in identifying their physical, psychological, and spiritual needs. Her work includes trauma-informed spiritual companioning, mentoring graduate nurse anesthesia students, consulting and education, and collaborating with healthcare and other helping providers to improve services for survivors.

Ether and Thread was founded on the belief that true wellness arises at the intersection of body, mind, and spirit — and that the most profound healing happens when we learn to follow the thread between our waking and deeper selves.

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What We Offer

Survivor led pathways to integrated wellbeing

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Mentoring for Anethesia Students

A supportive space for anethesia students to navigate the challenges and growth that come with becoming an anethesia provider. Mentoring can include relfection on professional identify, resilience, imposter syndrome, vicarious trauma, clinical experiences, and the human side of caring for others - including developing greater awareness and understanding of patients with history of trauma and torture.

Collaborative Speaking and Education

Opportunities to collaborate with helping professionals through joint speaking engagements, co-lecturing, co-presenting, workshops, panels, and educational events. Podcast guest appearances are also welcome.

Join the Advocacy

Constructed by survivors. Actional led by survivors. Join me to make the newly passed UN Charter of Rights of Victims and Survivors of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment a reality. Together we can help ensure that the 1.3M survivors of torture living in the United States have their rights, dignity, and voices recognized and protected.

Spiritual Companioning Small Groups

You are welcome here, exactly as you are. Torture and trauma can affect survivors and those who love them to their very core. You don't have to walk this journey along. At Ether and THread, compassionate community is waiting to walk along side you. Inquire about online and in-person spiritual companioning in a small-group setting.

Somatic Work

My passion for sharing what I have learned from navigating the health care system as a trauma survivor, both as a patient and as an anesthesia provider, is at the core of who I am. WHen appropriate, I collaborate with local physcial therepaists and yoga instructors to help you explore gentle, embodied approaches to wellness through somatic work.

Spritual Companioning - Individual

Trauma and everyday challenges affect who we are interiorly, just as much as they do exteriorly. Offering compassionate companionship as you explore what matters most to you—your beliefs, questions, values, relationships, sense of meaning, and connection to something larger than yourself. Whether you're deeply rooted in a faith tradition, exploring your spirituality, questioning what you were taught, spiritual but not religious, unsure what you believe, or identify as non-religious, you are welcome here.

Client Stories

Words from those who've walked this path

A special thank you to Sara for your continued leadership and dedication to TASSC’s mission. We truly appreciate your support for survivors and for helping spread the light of solidarity and hope.

— A. Tabir, Executive Director TASSC International

We realized that we shared much in common. The brutality that we had experienced, and mystifyingly survived, had changed our lives forever.

Sister Dianna Ortiz

Community Access Fund

Opening the door to holistic support for all.

At Ether and Thread, we believe that access to compassionate, holistic support should not be limited by a person's circumstances.
Our work promotes holistic care for survivors of trauma and torture through consulting, public speaking, education, spiritual companioning, and collaboration with other health and helping professionals.
The Community Access Fund was created to allow this work to help the community and provide support that may otherwise not be accessible.
When you support the Community Access Fund, you help create greater access to education, connection, spiritual companioning, and holistic resources for survivors of trauma and torture and for others who may benefit from this work.
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Every contribution—large or small—can help open a door.

Ether and Thread is an LLC. Contributions to the Community Access Fund are not charitable donations and are not tax-deductible charitable contributions. However ALL contributions to the Community Access Fund will go directly towards providing services mentioned above.

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Resources & Reading

Knowledge to support your path

Curated links, articles, practices, and perspectives on integrative health, as well as resources for those engaged in the work to end torture wherever it occurs.

United Nations Charter of Rights of Victims and Survivors of Torture and other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment

Where body, mind, and spirit find their thread

A practice born from lived experience and deep inquiry

Survivor led pathways to integrated wellbeing

Words from those who've walked this path

Knowledge to support your path

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