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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.

Early bird discount ending soon.
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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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After a six-week pause, I’m back — and in this episode, I share why I stepped away from the mic and how choosing rest, stillness, and deep self-honoring changed everything. I talk about my recent journey to Egypt, where I felt the powerful presence of the Neteru and a deep soul connection to the goddess Isis.

This episode invites you into that energy. I’ll guide you through a heart-centered meditation to connect with Isis — the divine mother, healer, and bringer of light. If you're moving through a season of transition, seeking healing, or simply craving spiritual connection, this meditation is here to hold you.

✨ A reminder that your inner temple is always waiting.

Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW, is a speaker, writer, psychotherapist, retreat leader, and podcaster who has dedicated her work and her practice to the treatment of chronic pain and anxiety. She is the author of the books MIND YOUR BODY (Penguin/Random House 2/25) and The Meaning of Truth  (2016) and creator of the online courses “Freedom from Chronic Pain,” “Freedom From an Anxious Life,” and “The Sarno x Sachs Solution” practitioner training. Her brands, BreakAwake and The Cure for Chronic Pain, include a website, podcast, YouTube channel, membership community, and newsletter. Sachs is on faculty at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in New York. Learn more about Nicole's work at: YourBreakAwake.com

In this heartfelt and eye-opening coaching session, Christine Hassler supports Darletha as she bravely opens up about her struggles with intimacy, abandonment, and the fear of emotional vulnerability. Despite years of personal growth, therapy, and conscious dating efforts, Darletha finds herself in a recurring pattern of attracting men who aren’t aligned with her values—and pushing them away when things get too close.

Christine guides Darletha to explore the deeper emotional roots of her relationship dynamics, including childhood wounds, generational trauma, and the nervous system’s response to perceived threats in intimacy. Together, they highlight the difference between discernment and sabotage, and how inner child healing can shift these long-held patterns.

This episode is a must-listen for anyone who feels frustrated with their dating experiences, struggles with emotional closeness, or feels misunderstood by their own protective patterns.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you find yourself attracting partners who aren’t quite right, then pushing them away?
• Are you hyper-aware of red flags to the point that it blocks connection?
• Can you tell the difference between discernment and emotional avoidance?
• Are you willing to explore how your nervous system and inner child might be influencing your relationship patterns?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Pushing people away can be a protective response, not a personal flaw.
• Childhood experiences of abandonment can lead to subconscious avoidance of intimacy.
• Discernment is not the same as fear—knowing the difference is key.
• Emotional safety begins within the self, not through control over others.
• True healing comes through compassion, vulnerability, and nervous system regulation.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Practice tuning into your body instead of staying in your head during dates or emotionally triggering moments.
• Acknowledge and soothe the inner child when feelings of rejection or abandonment arise.
• Let go of hyper-vigilance and perfectionism; focus instead on how you feel around a person, not just how they perform.
• Redefine vulnerability as strength, not weakness—it’s the gateway to authentic connection.
• Surround yourself with safe containers and communities (like Be the Queen) to reinforce new relational patterns.

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•  Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
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In this insightful coaching session, Christine works with Karin, who has repeatedly found herself in cycles of earning and losing money, leading to a persistent struggle and anxiety around finances. Karin shares her experiences of attempting various methods—from manifesting practices to lifestyle adjustments—to improve her financial stability, yet continually finds herself back in scarcity.

Christine helps Karin uncover deep-seated generational patterns and subconscious beliefs around money that perpetuate this cycle. They discuss the nervous system’s role in financial stability and how chronic anxiety and fear can block abundance, even when consciously pursuing financial goals.

Listeners will gain a deeper understanding of how past familial beliefs, generational trauma, and nervous system dysregulation can influence their current relationship with money. Christine provides tangible insights into shifting from scarcity and struggle toward a more grounded, regulated, and abundant state.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Do you notice patterns of gaining and losing money repeatedly in your life?
• Are you constantly anxious about your financial situation, even if things momentarily improve?
• Can you see any generational patterns in your family around money and struggle?
• Would you like to shift from feeling overwhelmed and fearful about money to feeling calm and abundant?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Financial stability is closely tied to nervous system regulation.
• Generational patterns deeply impact our subconscious relationship with money.
• Fear and anxiety about money can create blocks to consistent financial abundance.
• It's essential to consciously decide to break cycles of financial struggle.
• Cultivating a regulated nervous system can significantly shift your relationship with money.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Identify and acknowledge your underlying fears and anxieties around money.
• Work actively to regulate your nervous system before engaging in financial tasks or conversations.
• Clearly define your financial desires without minimizing or compromising.
• Decide consciously to break generational patterns of financial struggle and scarcity.
• Practice daily habits that reinforce a regulated nervous system state, promoting calm and abundance.

Social Media + Resources:

•  Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts Including Coaches Corner
• Christine on Facebook
• Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• @ChristineHassler on Twitter
• @ChristineHassler on Instagram
• @SacredUnionCouples on Instagram
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on any of my services!
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In this inspiring and heartfelt coaching session, Christine works with Sarah, who is navigating life after the dissolution of a 20-year marriage. While Sarah has processed much of her grief and feels more grounded, she finds herself in an in-between space—caught between who she was in the relationship and the new version of herself that she is becoming.

Christine helps Sarah explore the deeper roots of her feelings of being held back, which stem from earlier life experiences where she felt disempowered. Through their conversation, they discuss the challenges of moving forward when parts of your old life still linger, and how to embrace your growth without slipping back into past patterns.

Listeners will learn how to acknowledge and honor their own progress, release the need to please others, and fully step into their new life. This episode encourages listeners to choose themselves, embrace their own story, and trust that moving forward—while uncomfortable at times—is worth it.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you feeling stuck between your past and your future?
• Do you tend to hold back because you fear upsetting others?
• Are you fully acknowledging your own progress, or are you still telling yourself an old story?
• Can you trust that your choices, even if they come with loss, are the best ones for your growth?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Holding back can feel familiar, but it doesn’t serve your growth.
• Grief can come in waves, even after you think you’ve moved on.
• Choosing yourself may mean letting go of old relationships, and that’s okay.
• You don’t have to wait for external validation to step into your new story.
• Acknowledging your growth is essential to moving forward.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Identify the ways you are holding back and consciously choose to move forward.
• Allow yourself to feel the grief of letting go without letting it hold you back.
• Practice trusting your choices and recognize your progress without minimizing it.
• Find your support network and let them remind you of your growth when self-doubt creeps in.

Social Media + Resources:

• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts Including Coaches Corner
• Christine on Facebook
• Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• @ChristineHassler on Twitter
• @ChristineHassler on Instagram
• @SacredUnionCouples on Instagram
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on any of my services!
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In this honest and empowering coaching session, Christine works with Elena, who is navigating the emotional aftermath of ending a seven-year relationship. Although the breakup initially seemed mutual, deeper fears have surfaced—particularly around abandonment, self-worth, and what it means to be alone.

Christine helps Elena explore the deeper roots of these fears, which stem from unresolved childhood trauma and modeled behavior from her mother. This episode addresses why we often stay in relationships that aren't healthy, the difference between true forgiveness and repression, and how to break free from generational patterns.

Through this conversation, listeners will learn how to embrace solitude, process anger in a healthy way, and find strength in standing firm in their boundaries. If you’ve ever questioned whether you were too hard on someone, or feared walking away even when you knew it was the right choice, this episode is for you.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Have you ever stayed in a relationship because you were afraid of being alone?
• Do you struggle with repeating family or generational patterns in your relationships?
• Are you confusing forgiveness with repression?
• Do you feel like you're settling for less than you deserve because it feels safer than the unknown?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Being alone in a relationship can feel lonelier than being on your own.
• Anger, when unexpressed, can turn into anxiety or self-betrayal.
• Repeating generational patterns is common, but with awareness and action, they can be broken.
• True healing requires both reparenting yourself and creating new internal belief systems.
• Boundaries are an act of self-love and are essential to change long-standing relational habits.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Embrace solitude as a form of strength, not weakness.
• Practice anger release through safe outlets such as movement or journaling.
• Acknowledge generational influences without letting them define your future.
• Reframe thoughts that tempt you to return to unhealthy dynamics. Ask yourself, “Is this my voice, or my programming?”
• Visualize the kind of parent, partner, or person you want to be, and make choices in alignment with that vision.

Social Media + Resources:

• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts Including Coaches Corner
• Christine on Facebook
•  Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• @ChristineHassler on Twitter
• @ChristineHassler on Instagram
• @SacredUnionCouples on Instagram
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on any of my services!
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With the recent eclipse, equinox, planets in retrograde and schumann resonance activity, a lot of us are feeling pretty crappy! In this episode I share some tips for staying grounded and nourishing yourself during this time.

In this deeply personal and transformative episode, Christine Hassler coaches Sara through the difficult journey of self-forgiveness. Many of us have experienced the weight of regret—dwelling on decisions we wish we had made differently and struggling to let go of the past. This episode offers a path toward healing, self-acceptance, and true forgiveness.

Christine helps Sara navigate the emotions of guilt, self-judgment, and the pressure to "fix" herself, while also uncovering the deeper wounds that have shaped her self-worth. Together, they explore the impact of childhood conditioning, the importance of self-compassion, and how to break free from patterns of self-criticism.

This coaching session is a powerful reminder that we are not defined by our mistakes and that true self-love means embracing all parts of ourselves—even the ones we struggle to accept.

Consider/Ask Yourself:

• Are you holding onto self-judgment for something you’ve done?
• Do you find it easier to forgive others than to forgive yourself?
• Have you ever attached your self-worth to external validation, such as your appearance or achievements?
• Are you ready to let go of shame, guilt, and regret, and embrace self-compassion instead?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Many of the “mistakes” we regret are actually opportunities for growth.
• Forgiveness is not about condoning what happened, but about freeing yourself from self-punishment.
• Our childhood experiences shape our self-image—but we have the power to rewrite our story.
• True healing begins with self-compassion, not self-criticism.
• We can learn to see ourselves beyond the surface and appreciate our true, authentic essence.

How to Get Over It & On With It:

• Reframe your perception—instead of seeing your actions as "mistakes," view them as learning experiences.
• Practice self-mothering—speak to yourself with the same love and gentleness you would offer a child.
• Challenge self-judgment—when you hear your inner critic, ask, “Would I say this to a friend?”
• Shift your focus from past regret to future growth—each day is a chance to choose self-compassion.

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