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by Sarah Matlock and Debbie Beharrell

26 episodes
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If you've ever felt the pull to stop performing and start actually living - this podcast is for you. Murmuration is a weekly conversation about what it means to move beyond survival, return to self-trust, and live in deeper alignment with life. Hosted by maturation coaches Sarah Matlock and Debbie Beharrell, each episode weaves together personal stories, reflections and insights from the edges of genuine transformation. Like the murmuration of starlings - true beauty and power emerges in relationship, attunement and the space between. Come step into the dance of your own becoming.

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May 22, 2026

The Life You Rehearse In Your Mind

<p>This week’s episode is a little different. Sarah and Debbie begin completely without a roadmap, allowing the conversation to unfold in real time as an exploration of not knowing, the discomfort of uncertainty, and the ways we mentally rehearse life in an attempt to feel safe.</p><p>Together they explore the mechanical nature of thought, how memory shapes the reality we experience, and the enormous amount of energy it takes to constantly manage, predict, and control what might happen next.</p><p>Through personal reflections on rehearsing conversations, speaking publicly, panic, spaciousness, and the pressure to “know,” this conversation becomes an invitation into something else entirely: the possibility of allowing life to unfold without gripping so tightly to certainty.</p><p><strong>In this episode we explore:</strong></p><p>• Why the mind constantly rehearses life<br>• The relationship between memory, identity, and control<br>• What happens when we stop trying to manage every experience<br>• The fear of not knowing<br>• How spaciousness allows creativity and aliveness to emerge<br>• Why most of our reactions are deeply familiar patterns<br>• The difference between resisting experience and allowing it</p><p>If something stirred in you while listening, we’d love to hear from you.</p><p>And if there’s a conversation or topic you’d love us to explore in future episodes, come and tell us over on Instagram or via the links below.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sarahmatlockcoaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>@sarahmatlockcoaching</strong></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/debbiebeharrellcoaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>@debbiebeharrellcoaching</strong></a></p>

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May 15, 2026

What's Living You: Are You More Committed To Your Vision, Or Your Story?

<p>This week&#39;s conversation begins with a declaration. Sarah opens the episode by speaking on mic the commitment she has put at stake for this season of her work, which is the commitment to use her voice freely, to speak in a way that is completely true to what she sees and what she believes about the work of maturation, and to do that beyond the rooms where it already feels comfortable to be heard. In a sense, the episode is the live demonstration of the commitment it sets out to explore.</p><p>From that starting point, the conversation moves into two distinct, though not separate, tracks. </p><p>The first is the commitment to who we are being in any given moment, and the recognition that we are always committed to something, even when the commitment is unconscious, even when the thing we are most committed to is the very story we say we want to outgrow. </p><p>The second is the commitment to what we are bringing into the world, the willingness to honour what we have said yes to despite the shame, the survival noise, the familiar pull back toward a smaller and tighter way of being.</p><p>Throughout, Sarah and Debbie return to the same quiet questions. What is living you? Who are you living as? What world are you calling into being through what you are consciously or unconsciously committed to? </p><p>If you are not sure how to answer those questions, the invitation at the end of the episode is to look at the world that is appearing to you. Not because the world is to be fixed, but because the world is showing you, in real time, what you have been committed to all along.</p>

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May 8, 2026

Why We Resist - Part 2: What Happens When Resistance Softens

<p><strong>Why We Resist - Part 2: What Happens When Resistance Softens</strong></p><p>Last episode we explored why resistance exists and how our systems are organised around survival, familiarity, and emotional equilibrium.</p><p>In this episode, Sarah and Debbie explore what begins to happen when resistance softens.</p><p>Together they unpack the fear many of us carry around fully feeling grief, shame, anger, heartbreak, or fear, and why so much of our energy goes into trying not to feel what is already moving inside us.</p><p>Through personal reflections, client stories, and lived examples, they explore how emotions themselves are often far more fluid than we imagine, and how it is often the resistance to the experience, rather than the experience itself, that keeps us stuck looping in familiar patterns.</p><p>This conversation moves into the heart of maturation work:<br>not fixing ourselves, but increasing our capacity to consciously be with our human experience without collapsing into blame, control, shame, or avoidance.</p><p>In this episode we explore:</p><p>• Why emotions often feel “stuck”<br>• The difference between feeling and resisting<br>• Why calm is not something we create, but what appears beneath resistance<br>• The relationship between spaciousness and aliveness<br>• Spiritual bypassing and the impossibility of escaping the human experience<br>• Why maturation is about expanding capacity, not fixing ourselves<br>• How support and relational holding allow emotional experiences to complete</p><p>If this episode stirred something in you, we’d love to hear from you.</p><p>You can connect with us through the links below or come and share what moved for you over on Instagram.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sarahmatlockcoaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.instagram.com/sarahmatlockcoaching</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/debbiebeharrellcoaching" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.instagram.com/debbiebeharrellcoaching</a></p>

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What is Murmuration?

If you've ever felt the pull to stop performing and start actually living - this podcast is for you.

Murmuration is a weekly conversation about what it means to move beyond survival, return to self-trust, and live in deeper alignment with life. Hosted by maturation coaches Sarah Matlock and Debbie Beharrell, each episode weaves together personal stories, reflections and insights from the edges of genuine transformation.

Like the murmuration of starlings - true beauty and power emerges in relationship, attunement and the space between. Come step into the dance of your own becoming.

How often does this podcast release new episodes?

This podcast updates daily.

Where can I listen to this podcast?

This podcast is available on 4 platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. You can also use the RSS feed directly.

Does this podcast accept guests?

No, this podcast does not typically feature guests.

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