Faith You’ve Gotta Have: Dr. Sarah’s Daily Practice of Divinity

Based on a conversation between Dr. Sarah Young and host Philipp Kobald on “Spiritual Conversation,” produced by HolisticCircle.

God, But Make It Practical

Let’s get this straight: divinity doesn’t care about your crystal collection, the moon’s current phase, or whether your oat milk is biodynamic. Dr. Sarah Young isn’t here to stroke your aura; she’s here to remind you that holiness begins somewhere between your car keys and your cortisol levels.

She spends her days as a medical speech pathologist, which is probably the least “Instagrammable” job title in spiritual culture. Yet, she talks about light and love with the precision of a clinician and the conviction of a mystic. “All the work I do,” she says, “is in service to the love and the light that is, that is of God.” That’s not a slogan — it’s her lab report.

The Messy Mechanics of Grace

If you think enlightenment arrives via Bali retreat or breathwork bootcamp, Dr. Young’s world might feel aggressively normal. Most of her work happens in people’s homes — the real kind, with smells, bills, and low Wi-Fi signal. She calls it “re-harmonizing,” which sounds poetic until you realize she’s talking about getting the human body to cooperate with its soul again.

Philipp Kobald, the host, cuts in with one of those deceptively simple lines: “You’re helping them re-harmonize.”
Exactly. The healing isn’t mystical; it’s maintenance.

Spirituality Without the Sparkles

Here’s the scandal: the divine might actually be… functional. Dr. Young talks about “building a toolbox you carry with you for the rest of your life.” In an age when “healing” usually means outsourcing your sanity to the latest AI meditation app, that sounds almost rebellious. She’s teaching sovereignty, not subscription.

Her daily ritual? Blessing the driver who just cut her off.
Imagine it — freeway sainthood as nervous system hygiene. It’s the sort of radical gentleness that would short-circuit Twitter. “How can I love you today?” she asks herself after surviving another round of vehicular combat. No incense required.

The Church of Common Sense

Dr. Young’s brand of holiness is the opposite of performance. It’s unfiltered, often unpretty, and happens between errands. There’s no separation between divine work and daily work — the sacred slips into the shopping list.

As she puts it, “You are a soul, a divine light, a child of God.” Not a metaphor. A biological fact, as far as she’s concerned. Her science serves the sentence, not the other way around.

She’s not trying to make you believe; she’s trying to make you function.
In a world high on simulation, that’s an act of quiet defiance.

Spirituality for the Attention-Deficit Age

If this all sounds too grounded, it’s worth remembering what most people now consider “spiritual practice”: guided playlists, algorithmic therapy, dopamine dressed as discipline. Dr. Young is the antidote to all that. Her version of transcendence begins with noticing what’s real — breath, fatigue, irritation, gravity — and staying with it long enough to transform it.

When she blesses the angry driver, it’s not moral theatre. It’s calibration. Her way of refusing to let chaos write her frequency.

That’s the subtle rebellion here — she’s not escaping the modern world, she’s reclaiming her nervous system from it.

The Divine With Dirty Hands

This is where Dr. Young becomes quietly radical. She doesn’t draw a border between her roles: clinician, minister, mystic. It’s all one body of work. She prays over stroke patients, adjusts their swallowing technique, talks about nutrition, and invites light into the room — not as spectacle but as service.

It’s holiness with sleeves rolled up.

In her practice, divinity isn’t a weekend retreat. It’s something you do when the patient’s dog starts barking, when your back hurts, when you’ve driven four hours between house calls and your phone battery’s dead.

It’s the discipline of showing up, again and again, until showing up is the prayer.

The Unsexy Side of Light

It’s tempting to imagine spirituality as transcendence — that lovely, floating sensation of being above the noise. But what Dr. Young offers is incarnation. It’s heavier, slower, inconveniently human. Her kind of light doesn’t lift you out of life; it burns through it.

And Philipp Kobald, with his characteristic mix of irony and heart, holds the space for that paradox — that the most divine moments are usually the least cinematic. Two people sitting in a living room talking about resonance might not trend on YouTube, but it’s closer to truth than any “vibrational frequency upgrade” ad you’ll scroll past today.

The Holy Act of Paying Attention

Every spiritual cliché starts as a truth someone stopped practicing. “Be the light” sounds nice until you try doing it in rush-hour traffic. “Choose love” works great until you open the news. Dr. Young is what happens when someone keeps doing the cliché long enough to make it real again.

The daily practice of divinity, it turns out, is not about reaching higher — it’s about lowering your center of gravity. It’s grounding God into the mundane.

No One’s Coming to Save You (and That’s the Good News)

Dr. Young’s entire message could fit on a post-it: stop waiting for transcendence. Build it. In your bones, in your breath, in the way you talk to the barista.

She’s teaching something astonishingly simple and therefore almost forgotten: the divine isn’t a mood. It’s a method.

As she reminds us, “You’re gonna carry that toolbox for the rest of your life.” Not a bad trade for a few moments of mindfulness, a bit of breath, and the audacity to bless the idiots on the highway.

Because maybe enlightenment doesn’t look like floating above it all.
Maybe it looks like driving through it — calm, awake, and unbothered.

Guest bio: Dr. Sarah Young is a medical speech pathologist, ordained minister through the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (2010), and holds a PhD in quantum integrative medicine.

Watch the full episode of Spiritual Conversation with Philipp Kobald on the @HolisticCircle YouTube channel.

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