Saskia Stallings, MSW, LCSW, is a dynamic speaker, therapist, educator, and burnout specialist known for bringing honesty, humor, heart, and real-life experience to the stage.
With more than 15 years of experience in the mental health field, Saskia has a unique ability to take complex ideas about survival mode, burnout, trauma, relationships, boundaries, and the nervous system and make them feel understandable, relatable, and deeply human.
Saskia doesn’t just speak to an audience—she connects with them.
Her authentic and conversational style creates an environment where people feel seen, challenged, and often find themselves laughing one minute and having an unexpected realization the next. She isn't afraid to talk about the things we often keep quiet: the invisible load women carry, the cost of constantly taking care of everyone else, self-silencing, people-pleasing, hyper-independence, identity, and what happens when a life built around survival stops working.
Saskia has presented at summits, retreats, professional events, workshops, radio shows, and community gatherings. She brings both her professional expertise and her own lived experiences to her work, using storytelling to help audiences recognize themselves in what she teaches.
At the heart of Saskia's message is a simple belief: we were never meant to spend our entire lives surviving.
Her work invites people to become curious about the patterns that have shaped their lives, reconnect with themselves, and begin creating a life built around their needs, capacity, values, relationships, and who they truly are.
Whether she's speaking about burnout and survival mode, the nervous system, boundaries, self-compassion, identity, or healing from difficult experiences, Saskia brings warmth, humor, vulnerability, and a willingness to say the things people are often thinking but are afraid to say out loud.
She is also a wife, mother of seven, and grandmother of five. When she isn't working, speaking, or learning something new, Saskia loves traveling, connecting with people, and anything whimsical, magical, or fun.
Saskia doesn't believe people need another person telling them how to live their lives. She helps them understand themselves well enough to decide for themselves.
Speaking Topics
💜 Beyond Survival™: Burnout, Survival Mode & Coming Back to Yourself
Why capable women can spend years functioning in survival mode—and what it takes to stop simply pushing through and start living again.
💜 The 7 Types of Rest™: Why Sleep Isn't Enough
As a Certified 7 Types of Rest™ Practitioner, Saskia helps audiences understand the different ways we become depleted and how to identify the type of rest they actually need.
💜 Trauma, Healing & the Nervous System
An approachable, compassionate look at how trauma affects the brain, body, relationships, and nervous system—and what healing can actually look like.
💜 When Life Changes in an Instant: Love, Loss & Life After Brain Injury
Drawing from her family's experience after her husband's traumatic brain injury, Saskia speaks about sudden life change, grief, caregiving, relationships, identity, resilience, and learning to build a life you never expected to be living.
💜 ADHD in Women: Understanding a Brain That Works Differently
A relatable look at ADHD in women, including overwhelm, shame, masking, emotional regulation, energy, executive functioning, and learning to work with your brain rather than constantly fighting against it.
💜 Self-Compassion, Authenticity & Finding Your Voice
A conversation about letting go of shame and expectations, finding your voice, and giving yourself permission to become more fully who you are.
Saskia also creates customized presentations and workshops based on the needs of each audience, organization, or event.
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