Shawn Stevenson is the author of the USA Today National bestseller Eat Smarter and the international bestselling book Sleep Smarter. He’s also creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the number #1 health podcast in the U.S. with millions of listener downloads each month. A graduate of the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Shawn studied business, biology, and nutritional science and became the cofounder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance. Shawn has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, Muscle & Fitness, ABC News, ESPN, and many other major media outlets.
This coaching call is about making sense of our intuition. Today’s caller, Michaela, wants to drop fully into what she is feeling but is unsure whether her intuition is just a fear-based response to her past. She asks Christine for guidance on how to decipher her feelings and how to trust her intuition.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode422].
We all have the gift of intuition to varying degrees. Some people, who have more gifts, we might refer to as psychics or mediums. But we all have the gift and the ability to connect to our intuition. And often, when we open up our connection to our intuition, it can be confusing. We may get intuitive messages and not know exactly what to do with them.
The beautiful thing about surrender or letting go is that it does allow for what actually needs to come forward to happen. Surrendering and receiving can feel scary because we have to be still. When we’re not in motion, either mentally or physically, and stillness comes, it often can trigger a fear response. Because if you grew up with any kind of abuse or chaos you know that when things got quiet, or still it wasn’t always a good sign; the calm before the storm.
So, we keep ourselves moving to both avoid chaos and to avoid the feelings. Many of us have wounds and trauma that we’ve been carrying around for decades and if we keep ourselves busy and distracted enough then we don’t have to feel the pain. If we do surrender and allow ourselves to receive, then there’s an invitation to feel. And, often it isn’t the party we want to attend.
The beautiful thing about inner child work is that we have all these beautiful parts of us that come alive again and they become a great source of love.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Do you feel like your intuition is telling you something and you’re not exactly sure what it means or what to do with it?
Have you had a life of lots of doing and you feel this huge desire to just be, but at the same time it terrifies you?
Are you someone that is good at receiving or are you better at giving?
Are you willing to carve the time out for yourself and change behaviors to connect more deeply with your inner child so that you can feel safe in your body?
Michaela’s Question:
Michaela is being pulled to listen to her intuition but is confused about whether the message is coming from her intuition or is a fear-based response.
Michaela’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She is an imposter syndrome and transformational coach.
She left the corporate world after 25 years.
She is feeling pulled to stop doing and to listen to her intuition.
She is strongly spiritual.
She has a global network of people as clients.
She invests money in personal development work.
She suffered from imposter syndrome in the past.
Her family pretended everything was okay, no matter what was happening.
She feels coaching is her calling.
She’s been married for 25 years.
She has a hidden life and doesn’t feel safe.
She had traumatic experiences in her childhood.
She sometimes wants to disappear.
She recently uncoupled from an intimate connection.
She is searching for parental safety.
She wants to feel supported and loved.
She finds it difficult to receive.
She doesn’t understand how people love her.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Delve deeply into healing inner child work.
Let go of her distractions to integrate the fragmented pieces of herself.
Trust her intuition and be curious about the messages.
Be curious and allow people’s love for her to model how to love her inner child.
Take action in response to her internal messaging rather than taking action to avoid her feelings.
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Kimberlee's book and podcast, THE FISCAL FEMINIST, is a financial wake-up call for women in which she shares her personal and professional expertise to help women improve their financial health, money-proof their relationships and learn how to be intentional and strategic with their finances and careers.
Kimberlee has more than 25 years of finance, legal and corporate experience. She is currently a managing director and partner at the private wealth management firm The Bahnsen Group and a certified divorce financial analyst. But Kimberlee hasn't always been so confident with money.
After a long and contentious divorce that completely upended her life, Kimberlee found herself in the trenches where many of her clients and listeners currently are today. She wasn't prepared financially and was afraid for her and her children's future. Her mission is to ensure no other woman has to feel afraid like she did.
While many women feel overwhelmed today in a post-pandemic world, juggling careers, motherhood and a looming recession, Kimberlee believes every woman can improve her financial health no matter her age, economic or marital status.
This coaching call is about overcoming the fear of stepping out of our comfort zones. Today’s caller, Alana, has always played it safe by never stepping out of her comfort zone. She asks Christine for guidance about how to overcome the fear of taking the risks necessary to move into the life she wants.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode421].
It can be scary to move out of what is familiar. Our risk tolerance in our early 20s is much different than when we are older. When we have lived a little more life, we have seen enough to know that regret is far worse than risk. We can’t get time back and regret is very painful to live with.
We can recover from most risks, especially social media posts, going after clients, and putting ourselves “out there.” Some people may judge, or some people may not like it but we can recover from that. To be coming to the end of life and wondering why we didn’t go after what we wanted is far more painful than taking a risk and maybe having a few people say something not so nice. We’re not living our lives if we’re only doing things that we think will not be judged by other people.
When we move into a different career, especially the personal growth industry, there may be people who judge us. Let them. It’s okay. When we start looking at our own stuff, start speaking our truth, and start healing generational trauma, a lot of people judge us because their subconscious doesn’t want to look at their stuff. Instead of them taking personal responsibility and dealing with their stuff they choose to judge others. It is their defense strategy. The biggest thing to remember is not to take it personally. Allow your inner voice and the voices of the people who love and support you to be the voices you pay attention to.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you a coach who wants to start a coaching practice but you’re playing it safe despite your training, skills, and passion?
Have you had challenges in life that reinforce your desire to stay in your safety zone?
Are you willing to start making some bigger changes and start taking some risks?
Do you deal with imposter syndrome and would you like to let it go for good?
Alana’s Question:
Alana fears uncharted territory and would like guidance on how to transition from a structured career path into a less structured entrepreneurial coaching business.
Alana’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She has worked in a structured career.
She is a certified life coach.
She finds it difficult to put herself out there.
She suffers from imposter syndrome.
She fears asking for payment for her services.
She believes she can get clients.
She fears she will change as a person.
Her mother passed away unexpectedly.
She lost a pregnancy.
She is comfortable with playing it safe.
She is hesitant to move forward into unfamiliar territory.
She has relied on external validation.
She wants to move into curiosity.
She is committed to reaching out to clients.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Shift the way she looks at safety.
Reassure herself that safety is internally resourced.
Honor her inner voice.
Remind herself that just because something is unfamiliar doesn’t mean it is unsafe.
Takeaway:
Stop letting the fear of what other people think stop you from going after what you want.
Push out of what is safe. If you only live in what is safe, you will never really live.
Resources:
Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
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Expectation Hangover, by Christine Hassler
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Ellen enjoys teaching and consulting on relationship topics, writing her blog on motherhood and relationships, is fascinated by nature, spirituality, human development, and studies a range of topics from yoga and meditation to evolutionary sociobiology. Ellen is also on faculty for the Relationship School—a business founded by her husband, Jayson Gaddis, that provides in depth relationship education and coaching training.
This coaching call is about being in a similar pattern when it comes to dating and relationships. Today’s caller, Trish, longs for a committed relationship but doesn’t understand why she has a pattern of choosing emotionally unavailable people. She asks for guidance on how to choose the right person.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode420].
So many of our relationship challenges come from our parental issues from our childhood. Not all of them, but a lot of them. As children, we want to be loved, feel safe, and validated by our parents.
When we have a parent whom we don’t get everything we want, or need from, we settle for the best they can do, even though it’s not fully what we want. We often end up not being empowered in relationships. Because there’s still that little inner child part of us who believes that we should just take what we can get. But, every soul seeks to evolve.
Evolution is moving away from judgment, away from limiting beliefs, and into love. The only way we can move away from judgment and limiting beliefs is to have them right in our face so that they’re painful enough for us to look at. Isn’t life wonderful the way it works? So often the relationships we draw in are triggers and activators to look at the stuff from our childhood that we haven’t fully healed.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you someone who maybe has been married or has been in many relationships and you find yourself with the same outcome?
Did you grow up feeling like you wanted more from both or one of your parents and you never really got everything you wanted?
Are you grieving a recent breakup and blaming yourself or wondering what you did wrong?
Are you constantly working on yourself to try to attract a better relationship?
Trish’s Question:
Trish is frustrated that she chooses men who are emotionally unavailable or incapable of choosing or loving her.
Trish’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She’s done personal development work.
Her parents divorced when she was one year old.
She didn’t feel her father’s love.
She didn’t spend time with her father.
She knows she has a lot to offer a partner.
The men she chooses don’t recognize her value.
She can be guarded in relationships.
She longs for a committed relationship.
She doesn’t date a lot.
She doesn’t want to be alone.
She doesn’t show up empowered in the early stages of intimate relationships.
She doesn’t want to get hurt.
She ignores red or yellow flags early in relationships.
In her last relationship, she believed their core values were aligned.
She knows it is not her job to be a man’s savior.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Drop the belief that she has a bad picker.
Have clear conversations about what she wants early in a relationship.
Empower herself by not being a victim of her circumstances.
Give herself the time and space to heal.
Takeaway:
What choices and what states of being can you embody to step into empowerment?
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This coaching call is about the motherhood transition and finding your identity. Today’s caller, Julia, has children leaving the nest. She is unsure what comes next for her. She asks Christine for guidance about what she can do to discover who she is.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode419].
The earlier in life we have children the less time we have to work on our own inner child. Part of why we hang on to moments with our kids is because our inner child may not have had it. The more we have a connection to our own inner child and our sense of play and magic the less we need children around us to give us that. So much of what mothers miss from children is the sense of unconditional love and joy.
One of the things our culture is not great with is grief and letting it be okay that we are grieving. And, when we don’t complete a cycle with ritual and intention it still lingers. A part of us is always in the past. We always have nostalgia and it makes it harder to step into our next phase.
Often, we try to redo our childhood through parenthood. We’re trying to give our children the life that we didn’t have and it is beautiful that we want to do better. But what can happen is we become so involved in our child’s life and become so immersed in parenthood, particularly motherhood, that we neglect our own inner child.
It’s a delicate balance to mother others while mothering ourselves. Remember not to neglect your inner child by putting everything you have into your children. It is important we parent our inner child as well.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you at an age in life where you are trying to get excited about the next chapter but are having a hard time doing it?
Are you going through any kind of transition and you find it bittersweet?
Have you questioned your identity, not just from moving from motherhood to being an empty-nester?
Have you avoided dealing with your childhood by being a great parent or having a great life as an adult and you know it’s time to deal with your childhood?
Julia’s Question:
Julia feels she is in a phase in life where she doesn’t know what comes next for her. She asks for guidance about how to rediscover herself.
Julia’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She just sent her oldest off to college.
She has one child still at home.
She doesn’t want this motherhood phase to be over.
She worked and traveled before she had children.
She may not know herself as an adult woman.
She feels that possibly her best years have passed.
She is considering joining the Signature Retreat.
She wishes more people spoke about this motherhood transition.
She teaches Pilates.
She feels like she needs to get busy doing something.
She is grieving her childhood.
Her childhood was chaotic.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Recognize the things about motherhood that she won’t miss.
Find ways to enjoy today.
Join the Signature Retreat.
Take the opportunity to relax into her feminine energy.
Consider who she wants to be and what she wants to leave behind.
Take the space to nurture and heal her inner child.
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For the past 20 years, Lindsey Meehleis has worked in healthcare but found herself often in the shadows. In the shadows of the night helping women discover their own strength through psychedelic, transcendent experiences while they birth their babies in power at home. As well in the shadows of death as a Midwife who helps people cross the rainbow bridge. Her hands have touched the lives of many as they take their first and last breath. She has woven the stories of thousands of births throughout these 20 years. Trained traditionally and licensed through the Medical Board, she quickly learned that what is needed in the magic and mystery of birth and death can't be found in a book. She serves families from womb to tomb, like many medicine women have done throughout time, with a deep remembering that many of these witches were burned at the stake for their threat to the standard industrialized medical complex. She has witnessed a drastic shift in healthcare since 2020 and looks forward to co- creating a new future of what true medicine always was. She gets down to the nitty-gritty of LIFE and everything it brings and illustrates the power that we have within, showing that birth, life and death are pivotal rites of passage that deserve to be held in sacred deep reverence.
The essence of this coaching call is about healing a relationship with adult children. Today’s caller, Gail, is dealing with estrangement by her children since her marriage to their father broke up and her ex-husband passed away. She asks for guidance on how to find joy during a new chapter in her life and how she can reconnect with her children.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode418].
If you walk on eggshells, tiptoe around, or try to protect everyone else’s feelings, ask yourself if that is the most loving thing to do. Sometimes love can be messy and truth can be messy but walking on eggshells, pretending, and being a chameleon is not love.
Children need to know that their parents will fight for them and risk them being mad or pushing them away to have a relationship with them.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Do you have any children that you’re estranged from or that you have a rocky relationship with and would like to repair it?
“Should” you be excited about things in your life but you’re having a hard time accessing joy?
Do you ever feel like you want to tell the truth about something but you can’t because you’re protecting someone else?
Gail’s Question:
Gail asks for guidance in getting back to joy while suffering from grief.
Gail’s Key Insights and Ahas:
Her husband died after three months of them separating.
It’s been five years since her husband’s death.
She believes her adult children are suffering.
She feels numb.
She completed the Over It and On With It online course.
She is engaged to be married.
She is slowly rebuilding her relationship with her four children.
She fears her new relationship could jeopardize her relationship with her children.
She wants to respect her children’s wants but it feels unjust to her.
There is a religious component to the family disruption.
She takes intentional steps to rekindle her family relationship.
She has an internal dilemma about being a mother and a woman.
She doesn’t trust her intuition.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Write each of her children a letter sharing her feelings.
Become the leader of her family and tell her children the truth.
Get guidance from a family therapist.
She deserves joy and happiness.
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Ryan Mayer, certified ADDCA and ICF coach, is on a mission to empower others with ADHD toward their greatness. He has coached clients from 19 different countries and has nearly half a million followers on social media.
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The essence of this coaching call is about our protective patterns manifesting as nervous habits. Today’s caller, Jessica, picks her skin. She would like guidance about understanding her nervous habit and how to stop it. Christine sheds some light on why these kinds of habits exist and why wanting to get rid of them or making them wrong is exactly what not to do.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode417].
The origin of our nervous habits is a tender, scared, powerless part of us. When pain is inflicted upon us, either emotional, physical, sexual, or mental pain, and everything feels out of control, our ability to cause ourselves pain and being the one controlling the pain gives us a sense of power.
When we are in overwhelm of any kind, we can use our nervous habit as a soothing strategy. It sort of shuts down everything else and brings our focus to the habit so we don’t have to feel other things. We use it as a sense of control, as well as a soothing strategy. It is a useful strategy our subconscious creates to help us manage our pain.
Remember, our inner protector is protecting a very scared child who felt powerless and had pain inflicted on them. When we feel the urge to apply our protective strategies, AKA act out our nervous habits, the last thing we want to do is try to force them to go away because they will just try to do their job even stronger. We need to make a conscious effort to be aware of our habits and not judge or shame ourselves for them.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Do you have any nervous habits like skin-picking, nail-biting, pulling apart split ends, etc.?
Did you have pain inflicted upon you as a child and you felt you had no control?
Do you notice nervous habits emerge even in situations where you should feel safe?
Do you try to stop a habit by shaming yourself or making it wrong and you aren’t getting anywhere?
Jessica’s Question:
Jessica asks for guidance on how to break her nervous habit of skin-picking.
Jessica’s Key Insights and Ahas:
Her skin picking interferes with her being fully present.
She feels anxious when she picks her skin.
She is a high achiever.
She finds it difficult to break her habit.
Her habit soothes her.
Pain was inflicted upon her which left her feeling powerless.
She is in the early stages of pregnancy.
She wished she had an emotionally present, nurturing mother.
Her grandfather caused her distress as a child.
She feels she has to put everyone else first.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Let go of the shame and judgment she has about her nervous habit.
Have compassion for herself.
Sign up for the Inner Child Workshop.
Get herself into the present moment as much as possible.
If she has the urge to pick, go ahead and pick but do it consciously.
Take care not to go into the martyr-mother role.
Takeaways:
If you have a nervous habit let go of your shame and judgment around it.
Be patient and gentle with yourself and nourish your inner child.
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The essence of this coaching call is what causes inspirational blocks and the unhealthy ways we try to motivate ourselves. Today’s caller, Jo, is asking for guidance about how to tap into her inspiration. The pandemic impacted her nervous system and left her lacking the motivation to live into her purpose.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode416].
Often, what inspires us is the stuff that makes us mad. It doesn’t mean we need to come out with anger at people. We need to move through the anger to find the fire and the passion that lies underneath. Then, we can step into the feminine power of discernment and discover our Warrior Woman. Which is a beautiful place to be. When we do this we allow ourselves to be pulled forward by a calling and a mission, versus looking for something external to motivate us.
Women, in general, are not great with our anger. It leaks out in certain ways but we are not great at tapping into our rage and anger and letting it out in a healthy way. This blocks us from our passion. And if we keep suppressing our emotions, rage, and anger we will feel depressed.
Plus, we tend to motivate ourselves by being hard on ourselves and looking at what we think is wrong and the changes we need to make. We believe if we make ourselves miserable enough then maybe we will be motivated to make a change. That is a strategy that doesn’t work or only works for the short term. It allows our inner critic to run the show and we burn ourselves out.
When we realize we are not doing anything wrong and that we are living our purpose because we are learning, growing, healing, and raising our consciousness, it releases the feeling of failure.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you feeling a lack of inspiration?
Do you feel you had a setback during the pandemic and you haven’t been able to come back from it?
Do you want to feel like you’re making an impact, that you matter, and what you’re doing in the world matters?
Are you someone who benefits from connection with other people? Are you an extrovert who isn’t connecting with people enough?
Jo’s Question:
Jo is asking about how to find inspiration and motivation for herself and her business in the here and now.
Jo’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She gave up her teaching job to write a novel and build a coaching business.
She moved in with her parents.
The pandemic impacted her nervous system.
She has difficulty spending a lot of time by herself.
She wants to do something meaningful.
She gets overwhelmed with business tasks.
She is trying to motivate herself by being hard on herself.
She wants to be inspired by life.
She has finished her novel.
She signed a lease on an office.
She is an extrovert.
She lived with depression for a long time.
She longs for freedom, transparency, and truth.
She sees her anger as a negative.
She started her business after she found self-compassion.
She is joining Elementum Coaching.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
When she feels trapped in the moment, consider what choices are available to her.
Put herself out there to get connection and support.
Tap into the fire beneath her anger and be motivated by her deep desire.
Start using her voice again.
Join the upcoming Signature Retreat, read Expectation Hangover, or visit ChristineHassler.com/angerrelease.
Takeaways:
Consider — Is there a part of you that wants to be free and believes that if you do what you want bad things will happen?
Get to know your anger, feel it, and understand it.
Resources:
Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
Christine Hassler Podcasts Including Coaches Corner
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Elisha Tichelle is an alchemist of the nervous system for visionary leaders and heart-centered entrepreneurs. Following a 20-year career as a somatic researcher and professor, Elisha now supports her clients to expand their nervous systems so their work can make a greater impact in the world - without burning out. Elisha’s facilitation guides an expansion of nervous system regulation, moving people out of operating from positions of stress and overwhelm into embodied states of flow, connection, and mastery. Elisha is the ‘behind the scenes’ priestess to some of the world's most successful and well-known coaches. Through her training program ‘Evolution,’ she guides space holders, facilitators, and coaches into integrating nervous system work in their business and life.
This coaching call is about the difference between masculine energy and hypervigilance. Today’s caller, Jo, has been caring for her husband after a debilitating accident. She believes she is functioning only in her masculine energy and would like some balance, but her actions may be coming from a response to trauma she hasn’t fully processed. Christine offers guidance.
[For show notes, go here: Christinehassler.com/episode415].
There is an unconscious, and sometimes conscious, expectation that masculine energy is supposed to be strong and be able to hold us. But, what masculine energy truly is, is taking initiative, moving in a linear way, being present, and holding for things. It is making quick decisions about things and being productive in certain ways.
Healthy masculine energy is NOT about being so busy and doing everything for everyone that we are depleted completely — That's being hyper-vigilant. Hypervigilance is a response to trauma that makes us feel out of control. Because no one chooses trauma. It is completely out of our control. When we are hypervigilant, we are looking for a way to feel in control again. We think if we do and control everything, we can prevent expectation hangovers or more trauma.
If you’re trying to shift more into your feminine energy when you’re in hypervigilance, good luck because in order for you to shift into your feminine energy, you have to feel safe and if you are in hypervigilance, you do not feel safe.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Has there been a drastic change in your life you haven’t had time to process because you have had to go right into action?
Do you often think you’re in your masculine when you are truly in hypervigilance?
Are you someone that is so used to doing, you often don’t even know how to be?
When it comes to surrender and accepting things, how are you with it? Can you let go or do you like to fight with reality?
Jo’s Question:
Jo is asking for guidance on how to prolong being in her feminine energy and relinquish her feelings of needing to be in control.
Jo’s Key Insights and Ahas:
Her husband was in a debilitating accident.
She feels she shifted into her masculine after her husband’s accident.
She likes being in her feminine but feels pulled out of it too often.
She wants to relieve her husband’s pain.
She does inner child work and meditation.
She has a tendency to be a people pleaser.
She has been a control freak in the past but wants to let go of it.
She hasn’t done trauma-release work.
Her father was strict and unpredictable.
She does everything for others.
She questions her self-worth.
She wants to cure her husband’s pain.
Her husband has accepted his physical condition.
She is grieving and hasn’t fully processed the incident.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Realize she is being hypervigilant, not in her masculine.
Find a somatic and trauma-release-work therapist.
Have compassion for herself.
Release her anger and trauma.
Recalibrate her nervous system.
Have conversations with her husband about creating polarity in their relationship.
Accept where her husband is in his healing process.
Takeaways:
Are you in your masculine energy or being hypervigilant?
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In your personal development journey, you may be asking "what's the point?" You are doing all this "work" and you are not seeing the changes in your life that you desire. In this CC I answer this question and give you reassurance to keep going.
This coaching call is about how patience and compassion without clarity can lead to resentment. Today’s caller, Lucy, doesn’t feel like a priority in her partner’s life. She asks for guidance on whether the relationship is right for her or if there are too many red flags. Christine shares some skills that can help Lucy get what she wants from her relationship.
[For show notes go here: Christinehassler.com/episode414].
Consciousness isn’t just about talking about our wounding or holding space for someone when they cry. It’s about taking action that’s in integrity and alignment with who we say we are.
When we have a lot of emotional vulnerability or sexual intimacy and vulnerability with a man, we can mistake it for being in a conscious relationship. If you are in a dynamic where you’re having a lot of emotional intimacy, but you don’t have the consistency or the feeling of safety, it’s not as conscious as you may think. What do you need to do to make a relationship more conscious? Bring accountability, responsibility, and agreements into it.
Consciousness is an aspect of sacred union, and in sacred union, there’s a masculine and feminine. There is the being and the doing. We can’t just swim around in the feminine being of vulnerability, processing, and emotional intimacy without the masculine of doing, showing up, and having structure. We need both, otherwise, our inner child doesn’t feel safe.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you in a relationship, whether it will be romantic or otherwise, that you’re doubting or you don’t have clarity about?
Are you someone who has trouble asking for what you need so you ask for it in a vague, safe way?
Do you not feel like a priority in a relationship, or as a child?
Are you doubting yourself? Are you feeling some nudges and doubts about something but you’re doubting your doubts?
Lucy’s Question:
Lucy feels stuck when trying to discern the difference between what is a red flag and what is her intuition in a new relationship.
Lucy’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She feels that this new relationship is her first adult relationship.
She has a hard time trusting herself.
Her mother didn’t trust her.
She and her partner are in the process of defining their relationship.
She wants to know if the relationship is right for her.
She doesn’t feel like a priority to her partner.
She appreciates certainty and consistency.
Her partner has full custody of his two children.
Her partner doesn’t make plans with her but asks for dates with little notice.
As a child, she longed for her mother’s attention.
She is still learning about herself and her patterns in relationship.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Propose a schedule to her partner and re-negotiate if needed.
Get specific about what she needs from the relationship.
Takeaways:
Where do you need to have more masculine energy in your relationships?
Where do you need to make clear agreements so you can feel safe?
Resources:
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This coaching call is about surrender and keeping hope. Today’s caller, Eva, is ready to give up hope and accept that she may never get pregnant. But her intuition is telling her that one day she will be a mother. She asks Christine for guidance and clarity about how to shift into acceptance and let go of her desire to have a baby.
[For show notes go here: Christinehassler.com/episode413].
Our drive and yearning to have a child can be due to our wanting to make our own childhood different. It is a reason why the desire to have a child can be so strong. There is an attachment to wanting to have a biological child that causes a degree of stress inside our system and it can make it harder for the body to get pregnant.
The body will relax when we surrender. But how do we surrender but not give up hope? Resignation is giving up and feeling that you don’t care about what happens. Surrender is more of a letting-go energy. Just handing it over to a higher power, handing it over to a source, handing it over to God, and keeping that longing and desire in your heart.
Oftentimes, our “soul babies” want a certain kind of clearing of generational patterns before they come in. And, our bodies strive to be healthy before they carry a baby.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Have you been wanting something for a long time and you keep trying but it’s not happening?
Have you decided to surrender, but still have some hope and it leads to an expectation hangover?
Were you able to fully relax and surrender as a child?
As a coping strategy, are you a planner? Does controlling and planning everything help you to feel safe?
Eva’s Question:
Eva has been trying to have a child and has not yet gotten pregnant. Her intuition tells her she will one day have a child. She is looking for guidance about how to reduce her monthly expectation hangovers.
Eva’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She used fertility drugs to try to get pregnant.
She grieved the idea of being childless.
Her gut tells her that one day she will become pregnant and be a mother.
She doesn’t want to have an expectation hangover every month when she menstruates.
Her planning and control is a trauma response.
She believes she needs to mother herself better.
Her mother was emotionally volatile.
Her mood as a child was based on the mood of her mother.
Her nervous system is dysregulated.
Her inner child wants to be held.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Surrender and let go of the attachment to having a biological child but stay open to the idea.
Rediscover her true essence.
Know that it is not her fault for not getting pregnant.
Give herself the childhood, and love she deserves, but never had.
Begin the Inner Child Workshop.
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This coaching call is about embracing our mother energy. Today’s caller, Davina, is a life coach struggling to attract her ideal clients. She was told that she may fear being seen, but it didn’t entirely resonate with her. During the session, she discovers that it is an inner-child wound impacting her efforts.
[For show notes go here: Christinehassler.com/episode412].
When we have blocks, when imposter syndrome comes up, or we are not attracting what we want, we can believe it is a fear of being seen. And while that may be true in many ways — many of us do have a fear of being seen and being vulnerable, but that is not always what it is. There may be something deeper that is more accurate.
There are inner-child, super-subconscious wounds and operating systems we develop when we are young impact our lives in various ways that we are not aware of. Whenever our reaction to something doesn’t match the circumstance in terms of severity, our inner child is triggered.
For anyone, especially coaches, sometimes we think we need to have great answers all the time, but if we can just hold a space of love and compassion for people in our life, that is often more powerful than any piece of advice or aha moment we can create. Often, someone feeling not-judged is the biggest aha moment they can possibly have.
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Consider/Ask Yourself:
Do you believe you have a fear of being seen or is it hard to put yourself out there?
Are you a coach and you are having difficulty attracting the exact kind of clients you want? Do you have a childhood that involves some kind of abandonment or not a feeling really chosen by a parent?
Do you get angry, frustrated, or annoyed when people copy you?
Davina’s Question:
Davina is struggling to attract her ideal clients and is asking for guidance about her messaging efforts.
Davina’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She is a life coach.
She is annoyed by people who copy her.
A coach told her she is afraid of being seen.
Her mother abandoned her and started a different family.
She had to share her mother’s attention.
She felt she has always had to do things on her own.
She feels sad and angry.
She grieves the loss of the relationship she had with her mother.
Being vulnerable is uncomfortable for her.
Her father wasn’t emotionally available.
She is vulnerable when she feels safe and supported.
She takes a long time to open up to people.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Know that her anger and sadness are valid and that it needs to be expressed.
Work with her inner child about her mother’s leaving.
Take the opportunity to be open and honest.
Give herself as much time as she needs.
Write down how she would coach others in a similar situation.
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This coaching call is about honoring yourself and another person by completing an unhealthy dynamic. Jade & Matthew both join this couple’s session to ask Christine for guidance about where to go in their current relationship. If you are going through a relationship breakup or if it is time to end a relationship, this episode is valuable especially if there is wounding playing out in your relationship.
[For show notes go here: Christinehassler.com/episode411].
One of the ways that we suffer most in relationship is thinking that our love will change someone. But, the opportunity to truly heal and step into their greatest potential is up to that person.
Oftentimes, coming together in relationship does help someone step into their fullest potential, but there’s a caveat: they have to do it. They have to want it and it has to happen quickly. If you’re in a relationship where it has been years of the other person going back to their old patterns, then you are in the cycle of them apologizing and feeling awful and you taking them back thinking things will be different. They are going to do their work and then something else happens but you see their little boy or little girl, and you love them, and this time was different and they’re really doing the work, and they’re seeing the counselor, but then they do it again. It’s just a loop. I encourage you to choose you, to love you. They need to do their healing on their own.
Making the choice to end, or complete, an unhealthy dynamic to heal individually is a gift we give to the other person. When we trust love and truth it always gets us to where we want to go.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Are you an enabler or are you addicted to someone else enabling you?
Do you tend to be a little codependent or a lot codependent in relationships?
Do you know that you love someone so much but no matter how much you love them it’s up to them to change?
Are you feeling that it is time for a conscious uncoupling in your relationship?
Jade & Matthew’s Question:
Jade & Matthew ask for guidance about how best to heal themselves.
Jade & Matthew’s Key Insights and Ahas:
Matthew feels relieved.
They separated after he returned from his travels.
Matthew shared his shadows with Jade.
Matthew became aware that he seeks validation from other women.
Matthew will do inner child work via therapy.
Jade believes it is best for them to not have contact while they are healing.
Jade needs to see Matthew needs to love himself.
Matthew wants Jade to be in his life because he feels a soul-level connection to her.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Have no contact with each other for one year so they can heal themselves.
Use the sentence starters Christine gave them to journal about their feelings.
Jade needs time alone and for Matthew to respect that.
Take the opportunity to learn what healthy, mature love is.
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I'm answering another question from a listener this week! She asked me to expand upon a phrase I've used in the show: leaky sexual energy. In this episode I'll describe what leaky sexual energy is, where it comes from, how to recognize it, how it impacts
This coaching call is about when our childhood wounding is triggered by a child. Lorena feels she has a parenting blind spot when it comes to her relationship with one of her stepchildren. She would like guidance on how to be a better stepmom and how to respond rather than react when she is triggered.
[For show notes go here: Christinehassler.com/episode410]
There are different blessings that go along with being a stepparent. But, in general, parenting can be hard. You can love a child so much but still get frustrated and triggered and then feel guilty about it. Understanding that we are human and we get triggered goes a long way.
Parenting is a spiritual practice. For these little beings that choose us, either as parents or step-parents, we have a soul contract. And, relationships and parenting are some of the biggest ways we evolve as humans.
With that said, we tend to reject people and behavior that reminds us of our wounded parts. We can have an ick factor towards it or them because we carry internal judgment and have self-protection mechanisms in place. It is much easier to love someone who doesn’t share the same wounding.
When we are triggered, pausing and taking the time to regulate our nervous system allows us to be in the moment and respond to children, not from the viewpoint of our inner child, but as the adults we’ve become.
Consider/Ask Yourself:
Did you ever feel rejected or neglected as a child? Did you want more nurturing and love?
Do you have a child or a stepchild that you just don’t connect to and it bothers you, and you feel guilty because you don’t like being around that child as much as you do your other children?
Are you committed to being a better parent both to yourself and your inner child and your child or children?
Lorena’s Question:
Lorena feels she has a blind spot in her relationship with her stepchild and is asking for guidance about building a better relationship.
Lorena’s Key Insights and Ahas:
She has been a stepmother since 2016.
Her stepchild struggles with emotional regulation.
She has a baby and two stepchildren.
There may not have been an original mother/child bond in her stepchild’s life.
She doesn’t want to be around her stepchild.
She feels invaded and resents the extra effort it takes to nurture her stepchild.
Her father was an alcoholic and made inappropriate requests of her.
Her stepchildren are there 50% of the time.
Her husband looks to her to be a mature stepparent.
She beats herself up for her feelings toward her stepchild.
She didn’t get loving attention from her mother.
How to Get Over It and On With It:
Tell her inner child that her father’s care wasn’t her responsibility.
Accept that her stepchild is a trigger for her.
Try seeing herself in her stepchild.
Pause, take a deep breath, and say — I love you, and I got you — when triggered to regulate her nervous system.
Do not underestimate what a nine-year-old can talk about.
Get in alignment with her husband about her stepparenting.
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