Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH, is a trainer, speaker and physician, double board-certified in preventive and addiction medicine with masters degrees in biochemistry and public health.

Beyond her conventional medical and surgical training, Dr. Aimie has training in Psychosomatic Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Mental Health Nutrition. Her extensive training in trauma therapies, including the Instinctual Trauma Response Model, Somatic Experiencing, NeuroAffective Touch, and Relational Trauma Repair with Psychodrama, have formed her knowledge and services in attachment, trauma, and addictions, focusing on trauma at a cellular level. Her original inspiration came from her experience as a foster-adoptive mom during medical school. 

Dr. Aimie is also the host of the Biology of Trauma® Podcast. She has been featured on The Trauma Therapist Project, Therapy in a Nutshell, The Healing Trauma Podcast, and more. You can find her on YouTube, Instagram or her website.

In this heartfelt coaching session, Christine supports Elle, who has done years of personal growth work but still struggles with feeling disconnected—especially in intimate relationships. Despite building a chosen family and strong friendships, Elle worries she may never find a romantic partner she feels both safe and attracted to. Past experiences of abuse and neglect have created protective strategies that now interfere with intimacy and connection.

Christine helps Elle see that she is further along than she realizes, guiding her to release self-judgment and reframe her experiences. They explore how protective parts, body-based healing, and inviting the inner child into present-day moments can restore connection.

If you’ve ever felt broken, wondered if something was “wrong” with you, or struggled to combine love, safety, and attraction in relationships, this conversation will offer relief, perspective, and hope.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Do you feel disconnected from yourself, others, or even spiritually?
• Did you grow up in an environment where you didn’t feel safe or seen?
• Do you tend to be drawn to emotionally unavailable partners while overlooking those who are healthy and present?
• Are you approaching personal growth from the mindset of “fixing what’s wrong” instead of cultivating compassion and curiosity?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Nothing heals in judgment—shifting from “what’s wrong with me” to self-compassion is essential.
• Attraction to unavailable partners is often a protective strategy that keeps deeper intimacy at bay.
• Our past selves and inner child need to be invited into the safety of the present moment.
• Healing requires integrating body-based practices, not just intellectual understanding.
• You are often further along in your healing than you realize.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Practice inviting your inner child into current moments of connection and safety.
• Approach your healing with curiosity rather than judgment.
• Explore somatic or body-based trauma work to move stuck emotions and energy.
• Reframe protective strategies as once-necessary survival tools—and begin to update them with new choices.
• Remind yourself regularly: There is nothing wrong with you.

Upcoming Event:
Christine’s Women’s Retreat is happening October 17–19, 2025. This life-changing experience only happens every other year. Scholarships are now available, and Christine offers a money-back guarantee if you don’t experience lasting transformation.

Reserve your spot: christinehassler.com/retreat

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In this deeply supportive session, Christine coaches Erin, who has struggled with self-worth, self-trust, and confidence throughout her life. Recently assessed as neurodivergent, Erin has experienced both relief and grief—relief in finally having clarity, but grief in recognizing how much self-criticism and self-betrayal she carried for years.

Christine guides Erin through understanding how childhood modeling, people-pleasing, and bypassing emotions have impacted her confidence. Together, they explore how building self-worth comes not from external validation, but from radical self-acceptance, emotional release, and advocating for one’s needs in daily life.

If you’ve ever felt “different,” struggled to trust yourself, or wondered how to move beyond self-criticism into true confidence, this conversation will resonate deeply.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Did you grow up feeling “different” or like you didn’t fit the mold?
• Do you often bypass your feelings, telling yourself “it’s not a big deal”?
• Have you learned to be a chameleon, shape-shifting to fit others’ needs?
• Are you quick to explain or excuse others’ behavior instead of honoring your own hurt?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• True confidence comes from radical self-acceptance.
• Self-betrayal often shows up in small ways—ignoring needs, withholding truth, or people-pleasing.
• Relief can be a doorway into compassion and deeper healing.
• Suppressed emotions drain energy; released emotions unlock creativity and confidence.
• The inner child feels safer—and more confident—when we advocate for ourselves in everyday moments.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Notice moments of self-betrayal in daily life and practice small acts of self-advocacy.
• Allow yourself to feel emotions fully, without judgment or rushing to fix them.
• Begin somatic practices that connect you to your body (dance, yoga, movement).
• Read Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler, especially the section on emotional release.
• Redefine confidence as accepting all parts of yourself, not performing perfection.

Upcoming Event:
Christine’s Women’s Retreat is happening October 17–19, 2025. This transformational experience reconnects you to your body, emotions, and intuition, creating profound breakthroughs in confidence and clarity.

Note: This retreat only happens every other year—the next will not be until 2027. Reserve your spot now at christinehassler.com/retreat.

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In this intimate Coach’s Corner, Christine pulls back the curtain on what really happens at her long-running Signature Women’s Retreat. She shares the breakthroughs, emotional releases, and paradigm shifts women experience—and why this work is more essential than ever in today’s world. Christine also reveals how nearly two decades of facilitating retreats have evolved to include deeper nervous system support, somatic practices, and the kind of transformational healing that ripples out to families and communities.

Plus, Christine’s daughter makes a sweet cameo in the conversation—reminding us of the powerful connection between healing ourselves and shaping the next generation.

If you’ve ever wondered what truly happens at a women’s retreat (beyond the surface-level clichés), this heartfelt episode will inspire you to consider what transformation might be waiting for you.

In this powerful coaching session, Christine supports Tessa, a psychic medium navigating the challenges of fully owning her intuitive gifts after leaving a successful engineering career. While her spiritual sensitivity has deepened, she still struggles with confidence, financial consistency, and the fear of stepping fully into her calling.

Christine helps Tessa uncover how early life choices for safety and belonging influenced her path, why money is a sacred energetic exchange, and how to embrace confidence without falling into imposter syndrome. This session is especially resonant for anyone who has felt torn between a “practical” career and their true soul path—or who has struggled with feeling “too sensitive” in a world that doesn’t always honor intuitive gifts.

If you’ve ever wrestled with worthiness, worried about what others think, or hesitated to fully embody your calling, this episode will encourage you to claim your gifts with reverence, confidence, and joy.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Do you minimize your intuitive or spiritual gifts out of fear of judgment?
• Were you rewarded as a child more for achievement than creativity or sensitivity?
• Do you toggle between wanting safety (financial or social) and wanting to live your truth?
• Is your sensitivity something you see as a liability rather than a blessing?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• True confidence is radical self-acceptance, not arrogance.
• Sensitivity is not a liability—it’s a sacred strength when embraced.
• Financial abundance can flow through spiritual work when we claim it as valid and worthy.
• Belonging and validation from old systems (titles, achievements) can hold us back from owning our deeper callings.
• Spiritual gifts don’t have to come with a cost—you don’t need to “pay penance” for being gifted.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Reflect on any early decisions you made to “fit in” and how they may still shape your choices.
• Reframe your sensitivity as spiritual hygiene, not a burden.
• Write and repeat affirmations claiming your gifts as part of your life’s is-ness (e.g., “I make an abundant living through my spiritual gifts”).
• Notice when imposter syndrome shows up and remind yourself that reverence and humility are different from self-doubt.
• Normalize taking breaks, grounding, and nervous system care without making it a “big deal.”

Upcoming Events:
Christine’s Women’s Retreat is happening October 17–19, 2025. This immersive experience is designed to help you step out of your head, into your body, and reclaim your intuitive power. By the end of the retreat, women report profound clarity, spiritual awakenings, and a deep reconnection to their inner wisdom.

Register at: christinehassler.com

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This is a juicy one! We talk about motherhood, marriage, self-abandonment and much more.  Vanessa Bennett, LMFT, is a licensed depth psychotherapist, author, and facilitator known for her no-nonsense yet compassionate approach to personal growth and healing. She is the coauthor of the successful relationship book It’s Not Me, It’s You (Harper One), and her latest book The Motherhood Myth.

A former New Yorker turned Los Angeles-based therapist, Vanessa co-hosts the popular Cheaper Than Therapy podcast and leads transformational retreats and workshops rooted in Jungian and depth-oriented psychology. Through her writing, teaching, and content, Vanessa helps others break generational patterns and reconnect with their truest selves. 

In this tender and eye-opening session, Christine coaches Lucia through the heartbreak and confusion of a breakup she now regrets. While the relationship was loving and emotionally safe, differences in values, lifestyle, and follow-through led to a mutual decision to part ways. Now, Lucia is wrestling with second-guessing herself and holding on to hope—while also remembering what wasn’t working.

This conversation goes far beyond one relationship story. It’s about learning to trust your choices, release regret, and grieve while keeping the love. Christine helps Lucia explore self-forgiveness, avoid over-responsibility, and understand the deeper imprints from her first love and early life experiences.

If you’ve ever questioned a decision, longed for a “redo,” or struggled to move forward after letting go, this episode will help you find clarity, peace, and compassion for yourself.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Do you tend to replay past choices, wishing you could go back and change them?
• Are you holding on to the good memories while forgetting what wasn’t aligned?
• Have you confused the love you felt with the actual fit of the relationship?
• Is regret keeping you stuck in the past instead of allowing you to move forward?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Regret often uses present-day knowledge to beat yourself up for past decisions.
• Love is not always enough—shared values and aligned lifestyles matter.
• You can keep the love while grieving the relationship itself.
• Over-responsibility can fuel self-blame and block healing.
• Forgiveness and grief work create the space for true clarity.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Write down what was working and what wasn’t in your past relationship or situation.
• Practice self-forgiveness by acknowledging you made the best choice with the information you had at the time.
• Allow yourself to fully grieve without rushing to replace or “fix” the loss.
• Identify any limiting beliefs you’re holding about your worthiness for future healthy love.

Upcoming Events:
Join Christine for her Free Masterclass for Overachievers and Perfectionists on August 18th—especially for women who struggle with regret, self-criticism, and letting go.
Register at: christinehassler.com/masterclass

Also, Christine’s Women’s Retreat is happening October 17–19, 2025. This is a deep, transformational space to release old patterns, reclaim self-compassion, and step into your next chapter.

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• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on any of my services!
• Get on the waitlist to be coached on the show!
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In today’s real-time coaching session, Christine works with Catherine, who is navigating a pivotal life decision about whether to continue a long-distance relationship that is heading toward a significant next step—or to step away.

As someone who struggles with indecision and fears making the “wrong” choice, Catherine is looking for clarity, confidence, and security in her next steps. Through their conversation, Christine helps her uncover a powerful truth: clarity often comes after we take action, not before.

What unfolds is a healing dialogue around people-pleasing, fear of mistakes, and the patterns that keep us disconnected from our intuition. Rather than rushing toward a binary decision, Catherine finds a third path—one rooted in authentic expression, boundaries, and self-trust.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you often fear making the wrong decision, and delay choosing altogether?
• Have you historically prioritized others’ needs over your own in relationships?
• Are you waiting for a sign instead of trusting your own intuition?
• What might shift if you gave yourself full permission to speak your truth?

Key Insights & A-HAs:

• Indecisiveness isn’t always resistance—it can be sacred space while we wait for the most aligned choice to emerge.
• The “right” decision isn’t always black or white. Sometimes clarity reveals itself in a third, unexpected option.
• Unspoken needs can’t be met. Self-expression is essential to healthy relationships.
• Even if a decision “doesn’t work out,” it doesn’t mean it was wrong—it was your classroom for growth.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Journal on a time when your “mistake” led to unexpected growth.
• Practice speaking a boundary in a safe relationship—start small.
• Ask: What is my body telling me when I think about each possible choice?
• Instead of asking “What should I do?”, ask “What would feel most like self-honoring?”

Free Masterclass: Fulfilled & Free (For Women)

Are you a high-achieving woman who’s done “everything right”—but still feels like something’s missing?

Join Christine for a free live masterclass on August 18th at 4 PM PT to learn the formula for deep fulfillment that doesn’t rely on over-achieving or perfectionism.

Register at: christinehassler.com/masterclass
Replay available for those who can’t attend live.

Retreat Invitation: October 17–19

If you want deeper clarity, emotional release, and intuitive alignment in a live, immersive space—Christine’s women’s retreat might be your next step.

Even if early bird pricing has passed, you can email Jill by August 10th and she will honor the early rate.
Contact: jill@christinehassler.com
Details and application: christinehassler.com/retreat

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In this episode, I guide you through the powerful energetic gateway known as the Lion’s Gate Portal, which peaks every year on August 8th. You’ll learn what this cosmic alignment actually is, why it affects us physically and emotionally, and how to consciously work with its transformative energy.

We’ll explore:

• The spiritual and energetic purpose of the 8/8 portal

• Why you might be feeling more tired, emotional, or “off”—even if you’re skeptical

• How this portal supports deep heart healing, identity reclamation, and soul-aligned expansion

Whether you’ve been feeling the energetic intensity or you’re just curious, this episode will help you soften, align, and receive the upgrades your soul is ready for.

In this vulnerable session, Christine coaches Chloe, who finds herself caught in a painful loop of anxious and avoidant attachment patterns within her marriage. Chloe’s husband is navigating a midlife crisis and exploring his own healing journey, leaving Chloe feeling uncertain, hyper-vigilant, and emotionally stuck.

As they unpack Chloe’s longing for clarity and security, Christine gently guides her to examine the deeper soul lesson at play: reclaiming her own truth, needs, and emotional expression without waiting for external validation.

If you’ve ever dimmed your emotions to “keep the peace,” or found yourself anxiously waiting for someone else to decide your future, this episode will speak directly to your heart.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you find yourself waiting for someone else to give you clarity or permission?
• Are you stuck in a cycle of people-pleasing, withholding, or over-functioning?
• Do you often feel anxious in your romantic relationships—even if nothing is “wrong”?
• Are you afraid to fully express your emotions for fear of rocking the boat?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Anxious and avoidant attachment styles are two sides of the same insecure coin.
• Waiting for someone else's clarity can disempower your nervous system and inner child.
• Love without truth is not real intimacy—truth and love must go hand in hand.
• Emotional safety starts with allowing yourself to feel, express, and be seen—fully.
• We often attract partners who mirror the healing we still need to do within ourselves.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Pay attention to the moments you “pretend” everything is fine. Start telling the truth—gently but consistently.
• Stop waiting for clarity. Ask yourself: Is this relationship, as it is now, enough for me?
• Use the phrase: “What I’m making that mean is…” to clarify miscommunications in real time.
• Reconnect with your inner child and notice where she still believes love must be earned or tiptoed around.
• Set an anchor point in your calendar (like a retreat or personal milestone) to reassess from a place of greater embodiment and clarity.

Upcoming Retreat: October 17–19, 2025

Christine’s next live retreat for women is happening this October, and applications are now open. This is a curated, transformational space designed to help you release old patterns, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and receive the love and clarity you truly desire.

This retreat isn’t about pushing, fixing, or performing—it’s about truth, embodiment, and healing in a sacred space.

Dates: October 17–19, 2025
Apply Now: christinehassler.com/retreat

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Alexandra H. Solomon, PhD, is internationally recognized as one of today’s most trusted voices in the world of relationships, and her framework of Relational Self-Awareness has reached millions of people around the globe. A couple therapist, speaker, author, professor,podcast host, and media personality, Dr. Alexandra is passionate about translating cutting-edge research and clinical wisdom into practical tools people can use to bring awareness, curiosity,and authenticity to their relationships. She is a clinician educator and a frequent contributor to academic journals and research, and she translates her academic and therapeutic experience to the public through her popular and vibrant Instagram page, which has garnered over 200Kfollowers. She is an adjunct professor in the School of Education and Social Policy atNorthwestern University and is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice. Her hit podcast, Reimagining Love, has reached listeners across the globe and features high-profile guests from the worlds of therapy, academia, and pop culture. She is the award-winning author of Taking Sexy Back: How to Own Your Sexuality and Create the Relationships You                    

Want, Loving Bravely: 20 Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want,
and Love Every Day: 365 Relational Self-Awareness Practices to Help Your Relationship Heal,Grow, and Thrive. You can visit her online at DrAlexandraSolomon.com and on Instagram
at @dr.alexandra.solomon.

In this session, Christine coaches Mary, a high-achieving working mom who feels stuck in an anxious loop of striving, self-pressure, and “never-enoughness.” Underneath her drive for excellence is a deep fear of falling behind or being seen as “not good enough.”

Together, they unpack the childhood roots of her perfectionism and explore how nervous system patterns have reinforced the belief that love and safety must be earned through overachievement.

If you’re someone who struggles to be present, always feels like you have to “do more,” or battles guilt for not being the perfect parent or partner, this episode will hit home.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you define yourself by your productivity or achievements?
• Are you rarely satisfied—even when you reach your goals?
• Do you feel guilty for relaxing or being “unproductive”?
• Is it hard to be present with your children or loved ones?
• Is your inner critic louder than your inner cheerleader?

Key Themes and Insights:

• Perfectionism is a protective pattern, not an identity.
• True excellence is rooted in love—not fear or self-judgment.
• You can be present with others without fixing yourself first.
• Compassion is more transformational than self-criticism.
• Children (and your inner child) thrive when you slow down, not when you perform.

Ways to Integrate This Work:

• Create a daily ritual to transition from work mode to presence—especially with family.
• Let your children teach you presence through play, imagination, and simple joy.
• Notice when your anxious thoughts spiral, and give them a compassionate exit route.
• Replace judgment with curiosity: “What does this part of me really need?”
• Shift from proving your worth to practicing gentleness with yourself.

Upcoming Group Coaching Experience:
Join Christine for her virtual group session on August 4th, where she’ll guide you through powerful embodiment and nervous system practices to activate your divine capacity to receive. This is part two of her “Receive” series and is open to all women—whether or not you joined part one.

Topic: The Superpower of Receiving
When: August 4, 2025
Cost: $20
Replay Available: Yes
Register: christinehassler.com/group

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In this special episode, I’m sharing a powerful conversation with incredible women— all who have attended my womens retreat. They speak candidly about the fears and doubts they had before saying yes to themselves.

Maybe you’ve had similar thoughts:
“What if I don’t belong?”
“Is it really worth the investment?”
“I’m scared ....”

In this heartfelt panel, they reflect on what happened when they chose to trust the nudge, attend the retreat, and step fully into the sacred container of transformation.

You’ll hear about the emotional breakthroughs, sisterhood bonds, nervous system shifts, and life-altering ripple effects that are still unfolding long after the retreat.

If you’ve ever felt the pull to do something big for your healing but fear was in the way…this episode is for you.

To learn more and register for the womens retreat go here: https://christinehassler.com/womensretreat/

In this powerful and emotionally honest session, Christine coaches Tiffany—a gifted, intuitive woman who’s been living inside the identity of caretaker, rescuer, and savior. As someone raised in a family marked by addiction, loss, and emotional chaos, Tiffany learned early on to take responsibility for others’ well-being, often at the expense of her own.

Now, with a brother spiraling and a deep longing to create a family of her own, Tiffany finds herself stuck in an exhausting cycle of overgiving, people-pleasing, and spiritual burnout. Christine gently but firmly guides her toward a redefinition of love—one that includes boundaries, dignity, and surrender, not depletion.

This episode speaks to every empath, helper, or healer who struggles with giving too much, confusing martyrdom with love, and forgetting their own needs in service of saving others.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you feel responsible for other people’s healing, happiness, or choices?
• Have you been confusing helping with over-giving—or love with martyrdom?
• Are you exhausted from trying to fix or save others who haven’t asked for your support?
• What might open up for you if you believed that everyone is on their own soul path—and you don’t have to intervene?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Being the “savior” is often a survival role rooted in early identity confusion—not your true purpose.
• There’s a sacred difference between being of service and being responsible for others.
• You can give people the dignity of their own process—and that is its own act of love.
• God/Source never asks you to deplete yourself in the name of love.
• When you stop over-giving, you make space for reciprocal love, rest, and your rightful life.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Reflect on this mantra: “I no longer rob others of the dignity of their own process.”
• Get honest about where you’re still playing the role of rescuer—and release it with compassion.
• Reorient your energy through prayer, meditation, or spiritual practices that restore you.
• Redefine your non-negotiables in relationships, especially around addiction, boundaries, and reciprocity.
• Begin to build a new identity: one rooted in self-trust, clear agreements, and spiritual alignment—not sacrifice.
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Upcoming Event: The San Diego Women’s Retreat (Oct. 17–19, 2025)
If this episode resonated, you’re invited to Christine’s signature women’s retreat—a high-frequency, transformational experience designed to reconnect you with your truth, your joy, and your courage. Whether you’re in a season of rebuilding or simply seeking maintenance for your soul, this retreat offers intentional support and sacred community.

Early bird discount ending soon.
Learn more and register at: christinehassler.com/retreat

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In this episode, I’m joined by Molly Rubesh—certified life coach, author, and creator of The Modern Marriage Blueprint. Molly brings a grounded, refreshingly honest perspective to love, marriage, and everything in between.

A former corporate leader turned coach, Molly now helps individuals and couples heal old patterns, strengthen emotional intimacy, and build marriages rooted in truth, clarity, and conscious choice. We dive deep into the real side of partnership—what it takes to grow together, how to have the hard conversations, and why things like pre-nups and practical planning deserve just as much attention as romance.

Whether you’re calling in a relationship, healing from one, or deepening the one you’re in, this conversation offers insights that are both emotionally and strategically empowering.

You can access her course here: https://mollyrubesh.com/course-mmb

What happens when you’re doing “all the right things”—and yet life just won’t give you a break?

In this vulnerable coaching session, Christine supports Lauren, who finds herself stuck in a difficult season marked by frustration, stagnation, and unmet desires. From canceled dates to cockroach infestations and business disappointments, Lauren feels blocked on multiple fronts—despite years of doing the inner work.

What unfolds is a compassionate deep dive into the exhaustion of “efforting” without reward, the hidden cost of spiritual performance, and the powerful shift that comes when we release the idea that life must be “fair” to be good. Together, Christine and Lauren explore how to trade spiritual perfectionism and judgment for something much softer: acceptance, self-advocacy, and grounded trust in the unseen support that’s already working on our behalf.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you feel like you’ve done the work, but life still feels hard or stagnant?
• Are you stuck in a loop of striving, yet not seeing results?
• Does part of you still believe life is supposed to reward effort like a transaction?
• Are you ready to shift from pushing to receiving—from performance to presence?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Sometimes, when life “isn’t working,” we’re actually in a season of integration, not failure.
• “Life isn’t fair” is often a core wound—and learning to advocate for ourselves is the healing path.
• Taking empowered action is only part of the equation; our energy and beliefs must match.
• Self-advocacy is different from self-protection or hyper-independence—it’s rooted in worth.
• Relief, not elation, is the most powerful emotional setpoint to restore inner alignment.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Ask: “Where in my life can I lovingly advocate for myself?”
• Practice shifting from judgment to relief. Try the affirmation: “This is what is—and I am safe.”
• Notice when you assign meaning to disappointment. Can you stay curious instead of collapsing?
• Look for the difference between resignation and true acceptance. One drains, the other restores.
• Journal on this question: “What am I learning to receive in this season of life?”

Upcoming Event: Christine’s Women’s Retreat – October 17–19, 2025
If you feel stuck, depleted, or unsure where to go next, Christine invites you to her signature Women’s Retreat. It’s designed to help you shift frequencies—not just fix external problems. This immersive, high-frequency weekend supports deep healing, soul reconnection, and sustainable transformation.

Location: San Diego, California
Details + registration: christinehassler.com/retreat
Early bird registration ends soon

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In this deeply tender session, Christine works with Holly, who’s navigating the exhausting grip of fear and the inner conflict that arises when she tries to override it. Holly describes the frustration of knowing she’s done the inner work—yet still feeling paralyzed by fear when it comes to speaking up, setting boundaries, or simply sending a message to a friend.

What emerges is a powerful reframe: fear is not the enemy. It’s a messenger from past pain, particularly childhood wounds of abandonment and emotional neglect. Christine guides Holly through a shift from judgment to compassion, from pushing through fear to gently parenting the scared parts of herself with curiosity and care.

This conversation is for anyone who feels “stuck” in their fear despite years of personal growth—and who needs a reminder that softness, not force, is the path forward.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you judging yourself for still feeling fear, even after doing years of self-development work?
• Do small tasks, like expressing a need or setting a boundary, send you into overanalysis or self-doubt?
• Were you raised in an environment that didn’t feel safe or affirming—and are you carrying those patterns into adulthood?
• What might shift if you treated your fear with compassion instead of frustration?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Fear often stems from childhood wounds, not present-day reality.
• Self-judgment reinforces abandonment. Compassion heals it.
• We don’t have to “push through” fear to transform—it’s more powerful to honor it, tend to it, and respond with care.
• Hyper-independence can be a trauma response—not a personality trait.
• Healing happens through curiosity, compassion, and courage—not pressure and shame.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Practice speaking to yourself the way a nurturing parent would: “It’s okay to be scared. I’m here.”
• Try the three-step emotional approach Christine recommends: Compassion → Curiosity → Courage.
• Journal about where fear still holds you back—and what your younger self might need in those moments.
• Explore whether you're bypassing your feelings by “pushing through,” and ask what might happen if you softened instead.
• Identify safe relationships where you can start practicing self-expression and vulnerability in small ways.

Upcoming Event: The San Diego Women’s Retreat (Oct. 17–19, 2025)
If this episode resonated, you’re invited to Christine’s signature women’s retreat—a high-frequency, transformational experience designed to reconnect you with your truth, your joy, and your courage. Whether you’re in a season of rebuilding or simply seeking maintenance for your soul, this retreat offers intentional support and sacred community.

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Learn more and register at: christinehassler.com/retreat

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In a world that glorifies giving and doing, receiving can feel foreign—or even uncomfortable. But true feminine power lies in your ability to allow love, support, abundance, and guidance in. In this episode, I explore why receiving is your divine birthright!! And how you may be blocking it and can begin to open more fully to what you truly desire.

In this heartfelt, full-circle session, Christine reconnects with Anneke—the very first person she coached on the podcast ten years ago. What unfolds is a deeply moving reflection on growth that isn't measured by external milestones, but by the quiet, powerful shifts that happen on a soul level.

Anneke opens up about her journey through addiction recovery, burnout, grief, unexpected caregiving, and stepping into true self-love. Over the last decade, she’s released people-pleasing, healed from codependency, and discovered what it means to care for herself without performance or guilt.

This episode challenges the cultural obsession with checking boxes and invites you to redefine what a “successful” decade really looks like. If you’ve ever questioned your progress or minimized your own transformation, this conversation is a must-listen.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you focused on external achievements while overlooking your inner growth?
• Do you struggle to give yourself credit for how far you’ve come?
• Have you been moving through a quiet season of healing or rebuilding that’s hard to explain to others?
• What would it feel like to reclaim your creativity and joy without needing it to be productive?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• True transformation often happens in the unseen work of self-trust, boundaries, and healing.
• Asking “What about me?” is not selfish—it’s sacred.
• Rest, creativity, and reflection are just as valid as action and ambition.
• We are not here to perform our lives—we are here to live them authentically.
• It’s okay to have mixed feelings about the roles we step into, including caregiving or parenthood.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Take a moment to reflect on the last ten years of your own life. What have you healed, endured, or learned?
• Release comparison. Shift your focus from goal-line success to soul-line growth.
• Create space for a joyful, unstructured creative practice—just for you.
• Allow yourself to ask: Who am I now? And what do I want moving forward?

Upcoming Event: July 1st Group Coaching Call on Receiving
Christine is hosting a powerful live coaching session on the art of receptivity. Especially for women—but open to all—this session will explore how to shift from depletion to flow, and how to access the power of receiving as a divine birthright.

Date: July 1, 2025
Time: 3:30 P.M. / PT (USA)
Register at: christinehassler.com/group
Includes a bonus meditation visualization and session replay.

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In this episode we explore the often uncomfortable—but deeply necessary—“in-between” phase of personal growth. This is the space after an identity, role, or version of ourselves has ended, but before the new one has fully formed.

In a culture that values clarity and forward momentum, this period of not knowing can feel disorienting. But it’s actually a sacred part of the death-rebirth cycle—a time to pause, shed old layers, and allow what’s next to emerge organically.

If you’re in transition and craving answers, this episode will help you surrender to the wisdom of the unknown and trust the unfolding process.

In this insightful and milestone 500th episode, Christine coaches Lisa, a woman actively working to recalibrate her nervous system after decades of living in survival mode. Through their work in Christine’s Be the Queen program, Lisa has become increasingly aware of how her high productivity and people-pleasing patterns were actually rooted in hypervigilance developed from childhood emotional abandonment and a toxic past relationship.

Christine helps Lisa move beyond traditional nervous system tools like breathwork by exploring one of the most overlooked regulators: the mind. They discuss how belief systems, people-pleasing masks, and unconscious behaviors can keep the body in a dysregulated state—even when things look “successful” on the outside.

Whether you're a high achiever who struggles to slow down, or someone who feels stuck in a cycle of stress and self-doubt, this episode offers a refreshing look at how mental and emotional honesty are key to calming your system and reclaiming your peace.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you always “on,” afraid that if you stop doing, your worth might come into question?
• Do you feel triggered by others’ behavior and immediately spiral into old thought loops?
• Are your validation-seeking habits tied to unresolved childhood wounds or past trauma?
• Can you give yourself permission to operate from truth rather than performance or perfectionism?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Your thoughts and beliefs are major regulators of your nervous system—not just your breath or body.
• Hyper-productivity often masks dysregulation and old coping mechanisms.
• Rewriting internal stories like “I’m only worthy when I produce” helps calm the system long-term.
• Nervous system regulation isn’t about doing less—it’s about doing from a place of grounded self-worth.
• You can’t fake authenticity; regulating your system starts with radical honesty about what’s true for you.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Begin your day by asking, “What do I really feel right now?” before reacting from habit.
• Use mental inquiry tools like Byron Katie’s “Is it true?” to deconstruct spiraling thoughts.
• Notice when you're chasing outcomes or approval and redirect into curiosity or creativity.
• Instead of defaulting to performative politeness (like saying good morning out of obligation), check in with your body and ask what’s real for you in the moment.
• Remember: It’s not always about doing less—but doing from a regulated, authentic place.

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Melody Wilding is an executive coach, human behavior expert, and author of Trust Yourself and Managing Up. In this episode we unpack how high-achievers often sabotage their careers through people-pleasing and emotional suppression.

Melody shares why sensitive strivers (a term she coined for deeply feeling, high-performing individuals) often struggle to advocate for themselves in professional environments — and how this disconnect leads to burnout, resentment, and career stagnation. We explore the difference between being collaborative and being a doormat, and how to set boundaries that actually earn respect rather than risk relationships.

Learn more at melodywilding.com

In this raw and revealing coaching session, Christine Hassler coaches Bridget, a woman navigating the painful territory of jealousy, comparison, and unmet desires. Bridget candidly opens up about her long-standing struggles with being single and childless—two areas that trigger deep feelings of not being “good enough” when she sees others with what she longs for. 

The coaching session explores not only the emotional roots of these feelings but also how deeply ingrained patterns from childhood can skew how we view ourselves in relation to others.

Christine guides Bridget to understand that jealousy isn’t a flaw—it’s a signal. A signal that we may be projecting our own unlived qualities onto others, which can be used for self-discovery and healing when viewed with compassion. Through tools like “positive projection” and reparenting, Christine helps Bridget shift her lens from lack and comparison to abundance and self-trust.

This episode is essential listening for anyone who finds themselves stuck in comparison loops, struggling with envy, or feeling left behind by life's timelines. If you've ever looked at someone else's life and thought, “They must know something I don’t,” this one is for you.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you often compare your life to others and feel like you're falling short?
• Do you feel left out or behind when it comes to relationships, family, or success?
• Is jealousy something you were taught—something modeled in your family of origin?
• Are you ready to reclaim your sense of self-worth and step into greater self-trust?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Jealousy can serve as a tool for growth when reframed as a positive projection.
• Often, the qualities we admire in others are ones we haven’t fully owned in ourselves.
• Chronic comparison stems from childhood imprints, often passed down from caregivers.
• Confidence in decision-making strengthens our relationship with ourselves and builds autonomy.
• You are not less than anyone else—there is no secret formula that others have and you don’t.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Practice positive projection: When you're jealous of someone, ask yourself, “What qualities am I seeing in them that I haven’t yet recognized in myself?”
• Build self-trust by making confident, embodied choices—even small ones. Flex your decision-making muscle.
• Reframe comparison as separation. Instead, use it to connect with the qualities you desire to cultivate in yourself.
• Visualize removing the “comparison glasses” and choosing to see through the lens of truth, where your worth is not tied to others’ outcomes.
• Work with a therapist or coach to reparent the younger parts of you that never got to fully develop autonomy or self-approval.

Upcoming Events:

Christine’s Signature Women’s Retreat

Christine is still honoring the early bird discount for her upcoming Women’s Retreat! This transformational experience is designed to help women heal the sister wound, release patterns of jealousy and competition, and experience deep, soul-level connection and support. You’ll leave with greater confidence, clarity, and connection—with yourself and with other women.
Visit christinehassler.com/retreat to register and learn more.

Questions? Email jill@christinehassler.com

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In this episode, I share my personal experience visiting the ancient Kom Ombo Temple in Egypt — a powerful place dedicated to duality and balance. As I reflect on the energy and symbolism of the temple, I explore how it mirrors our own inner journey: the need to embrace every part of ourselves, both light and shadow. We dive into the power of neutrality — not as indifference, but as a grounded space of acceptance, where true transformation can happen. This is an invitation to see your life without judgment and to remember that all experiences serve your evolution.

In this deeply insightful and emotional coaching session, Christine Hassler works with Kate, a courageous woman who has spent much of her life relying solely on herself. While Kate has achieved personal and professional success, she finds herself feeling stuck when it comes to romantic intimacy. Her high-functioning independence has become a barrier to receiving love—and allowing herself to be truly supported by others.

Together, Christine and Kate explore the roots of hyper-independence, including childhood dynamics, family roles, and the need to feel “in control” in order to feel safe. Christine gently unpacks the difference between strength that empowers connection and armor that blocks it. As they navigate Kate’s fears of vulnerability and trust, the conversation opens the door to softness, receptivity, and true emotional intimacy.

This episode is a powerful listen for anyone who identifies as the “strong one,” has trouble receiving help or affection, or longs for deep partnership but doesn’t know how to shift lifelong patterns of self-protection.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you often feel like you have to handle everything on your own?
• Is it difficult for you to ask for or receive help?
• Are you drawn to relationships where you feel emotionally safer staying guarded?
• Do you believe that letting your guard down means losing control—or being weak?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Hyper-independence is often a trauma response rooted in childhood survival strategies.
• Being strong doesn’t mean being closed; real strength includes openness and the willingness to receive.
• Letting others in starts with letting ourselves feel—especially the parts we've kept buried or dismissed.
• Shifting from control to trust is a journey of nervous system safety and self-compassion.
• You don’t need to be “fixed” to be loved—you need to be seen and softened.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Notice where “I’ve got it” may actually be a defense, not empowerment.
• Practice small acts of receiving: compliments, support, kindness, physical affection.
• Reparent the younger version of yourself who had to grow up fast—give her what she never received.
• Use body-based practices to reconnect with your emotions and signal safety to your nervous system.
• Explore relational growth in environments that offer support, compassion, and emotional safety.

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• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts Including Coaches Corner
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• Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
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• @ChristineHassler on Instagram
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• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on any of my services!
• Get on the waitlist to be coached on the show!
• Get on the list to be notified about the upcoming certification program for coaches!