Sarah Eagar

I have an out of control love for life, family, the outdoors, and animals.

I live on a small hobby farm in Pleasant Grove, Utah. It is located at the base of my favorite, beautiful mountain Mahongany. The house that I live in is the house my family moved to when I was 14. After living in a small condo in California for 5 years, with the nine members of my family, the space this home and little farm afforded our family was heaven.

I spent hours out in the pasture with our animals as a teenager. There was something healing and therapeutic about the land. Our family life was unpredictable and very difficult at times as my mother battled with a rare and debilitating disease called Stiff-Person Syndrome. My mother was one of the most incredible people to have ever lived. She suffered extreme abuse as a child by the hand of her biological father. The abuse was so extreme that her disorder was caused by a spinal cord injury inflicted on her as a small child.

Our home and farm became a refuge to our family as our mother grew sicker and sicker. She eventually lost her battle and passed away in 2000, leaving four children at home. My youngest brother was eleven when she died. It was a very difficult thing for our family to experience, however, this special home that we had been blessed with seemed to offer a sort of therapy to myself and all of my siblings.

Thirteen years after her death, all of my siblings have grown up to be beautiful and amazing people. They were able to take the hardships that came on them at a young age and move forward with life. Many of us feel that our small farm, and the animals that we had offered us a reprieve from the heartache of losing our mother. Though they were no replacement for her influence in our life, they did tend to fill the empty hole in our hearts and mend our souls.

When the chance came for me to buy this house, I jumped on it! My dream is to share this land with as many people that I can. I believe that by "Doing Something" we can each play a part in changing the world. This is my something. I want to reach out to children who are hurt, scared, handicapped, or afraid to trust others and offer to them what this little farm gave my family...hope, love, and peace.