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06/11/2026

What Joe is explaining here is how the brain and body can reinforce emotional patterns over time.🧠⏳

And what I’ve learned through strategic intervention coaching is that underneath those patterns, there’s usually a need being met.

The 6 universal human needs 👉🏼 certainty, variety, significance, love/connection, contribution & growth

Sometimes what looks like a “bad habit” is actually the fastest way the mind knows how to meet one of them.

So the real question becomes:
What need is this behaviour serving?

I also like the question “how else could I respond to this?” 👉🏼 helps shift from reacting to choosing

Awareness is what creates enough space for you to observe and then choose differently.

Kirstin xx

P.S. I’d highly recommend following both Dr Joe Dispenza & Lewis Howes (if you aren’t already) ☺️

06/10/2026

I went from homeless at 16 to happier than I ever thought possible. Your circumstances aren’t always your choice, but your mindset can change everything. 🫶🏼✨

Kirstin xx

06/09/2026

One of the tools we have is our ability to refocus.

🚶‍♀️If you’re texting on your phone, look up and realize you’ve walked into the grass, you don’t stop and criticize yourself. You don’t replay how long you were off path or make it mean something about you.

You just notice it… and get back on the path.🌳

That’s it.

And yet with our thoughts, decisions, or emotions, we often do the opposite. We stay in the grass longer than we need to. We analyse it, judge it, or turn it into a story about who we are.

Refocusing is simply the ability to notice, learn if there’s something to learn, and return your attention to what actually matters next. ❤️

Kirstin xx

06/09/2026

🎙️New Episode Out Now! 🔗 Link in bio

👀 The neuroscience behind these 3 sleep tips:

🧠 Brain dump - Your brain doesn’t like unfinished tasks. Psychologists call this the Zeigarnik Effect. Writing down tomorrow’s tasks and reminders helps signal that the information is stored somewhere safe, reducing the need to keep rehearsing it at night. 👉🏼Try it at the end of your work day.

🧠 Give your mind a boring job - Working memory has limited bandwidth. A boring mental task works because it gently occupies your working memory. If part of that bandwidth is being used to mentally decorate a room or organize a toolbox, there’s less room available for:

* Catastrophizing, Planning, Replaying conversations, Solving tomorrow’s problems

🔑The key is that the task is structured enough to hold attention but not stimulating enough to wake you up further.

🧠 Create a daily highlight reel - Your brain has a natural negativity bias, meaning it’s more likely to focus on problems than positives. Recalling 3 positive moments, over time, strengthens neural pathways associated with noticing positive experiences and can reduce the habit of ending every day in problem-solving mode.

👉🏼Basically, you’re training your brain to finish the day with a more complete picture instead of only reviewing the problems.

💡 Most nighttime overthinking isn’t because your brain suddenly became more aware or creative at 11pm. It’s often the combination of unfinished tasks, fewer distractions, and your brain’s natural tendency to scan for problems finally having the spotlight.

Kirstin xx

06/05/2026

So much freedom and peace come from accepting things as they are.

👉🏼The irony is that when we stop spending energy resisting, avoiding, controlling, or seeking validation, we create the conditions for growth and often find ourselves moving closer to what we wanted all along.

👉🏼We become willing to learn the lessons. To acknowledge the parts of ourselves we’ve been avoiding. To stop looking outside ourselves for permission, validation, or belonging.

Being misunderstood becomes less threatening.
Being alone becomes less scary.
Taking action becomes easier.

Not because life changed, but because we did.💫

Giving people the space to explore themselves and watching them grow is one of the many reasons I love being a coach. 🫶🏼

Kirstin xx

06/04/2026

😂😂 Just out here doing our best..

We all want to feel balance. But balance rarely looks balanced.

Often it’s more a mix of wobbling, readjusting, refocusing, recovering and recalibrating. Over and over again.

👉🏼We forget that the goal isn’t to have perfect balance everyday. It’s to stop treating every wobble like we’ve failed.

Every entrepreneur, parent, leader, and human being has faced situations they’ve never navigated before.

That’s where the wobbling comes from.

So give yourself some grace. You’re learning. You’re adapting. You’re finding your footing.

And sometimes finding your footing looks exactly like this. 😂

Kirstin xx

05/29/2026

I worked in Corporate HR for years..changed my mind.

Thought I would marry a man with blonde hair and blue eyes…married a man with brown hair and brown eyes.

Thought I would never be a stay at home mom (I was too driven)..was the best and most wonderful gift I could have been given …

Change your mind. Make mistakes. Fall. Get back up. Make more mistakes. Try again. Laugh. Cry. Cut people out. Meet new people.

Understand that all of it is growth.

Learn more about who you are. Trust Yourself. Continue to open and evolve. Learn more about who you want to be.

You are under no obligation to be who you were 5 min ago. - Alan Watts

Kirstin xx

The better you know yourself, the easier it becomes to build the map. 🗺️This is the first of 4 stages in my 3 month coac...
05/26/2026

The better you know yourself, the easier it becomes to build the map. 🗺️

This is the first of 4 stages in my 3 month coaching container. Accepting 2 new clients for June. DM me “MAP” to apply. 📩

Kirstin xx

05/25/2026

Don’t Doubt. Just Do.

Kirstin xx

Seriously..I could’ve kept going and going..😂From Athletes to Doctors to Harvard professors I hear these stories all the...
05/14/2026

Seriously..I could’ve kept going and going..😂

From Athletes to Doctors to Harvard professors I hear these stories all the time. And because I know how powerful stories are, I wanted to make sure this hit your feed today. 🤳

A question that often comes up with this is:
“How do I know when to keep going vs when to move on?”

The more I’ve researched this, is that it usually comes back to effort.

If you’ve genuinely shown up for it, learned from it, and given it a fair chance… you can let it go in peace.

If you haven’t yet, you might not need to quit… just continue with more clarity and direction.

Either way, it’s not a failure. It’s just a decision point.

Kirstin xx

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