Sara Pálsdóttir is a lawyer, hypnotist, healer, mother of two, speaker and much more. She is the last interviewee of the Sterk saman podcast.
Sara grew up in Árbær and later in Grafarvogur. At first she was a quiet child who didn’t do much, but it became a big turning point in her life when her parents divorced when she was twelve. So the teenage years were different, she says.
Immediately became very alcoholic
“I rebelled, that’s when my alcoholic behavior really started.” I started going to convenience stores and going out a lot on the weekends.”
Sara says she immediately became very alcoholic and often passed out when she couldn’t remember anything, but had suffered from both alcoholism and an eating disorder ever since. many years.
“These diseases can grow from the same or similar roots if you don’t work on them. For a time I was stuck in the victim role, as I felt bad for being both an alcoholic and mentally ill, and I felt that was a terrible fate,” she said, adding that today she is grateful for the experience and laughs.
He ran his own law firm in pain
Sara has long suffered from chronic pain, fatigue and discomfort. She owned and ran her own successful law firm, but she had to stop working due to illness.
“Then I decided to go back to the AA program and see what I hadn’t used, and I found meditation and prayer there. I started meditating, at first only five minutes a day and that was the start of what I’m doing today.”
Sara has trained in this area over the past few years and received a certain calling, as she says, that she experiences today.
“I don’t say anything I don’t want to be true and I say what I want to happen.”
With this, Sara changes her thoughts and therefore her behavior and well-being.
Lots of confusion going on
When asked if it’s hard to stay positive when working on cases as a child protection lawyer, she replies:
“Of course it was particularly difficult at the beginning, I didn’t know the system at all and I was so surprised by the confusion that reigned. Today it doesn’t have that effect, I manage it differently.”
She tells us about the brutal violence, human rights abuses, violations of the law, and other things that child protective services do to her clients.
Sara gets angry when she mentions cases where the courts ignored obvious human rights violations against children and parents in Iceland, but there is no answer anywhere.
When some child protection officers or workers commit criminal offenses but the police do nothing, violate laws and regulations that set precedents, but they say they won’t stop talking about these issues, despite that many are trying to silence her.
