Ep 152: How Life Humbled Me—and What It Finally Taught Me About Control

We all say we’re prepared for whatever life throws at us—until we’re not.In this episode, we’re talking about what happens when life humbles you.For years, I thought I could outsmart hardship with self-awareness, tools, and grit. Then came the season that brought me to my knees—depression, shame, and the unraveling of everything I thought I could control.What I learned changed me: that control is the greatest illusion, that hiding only deepens the pain, that owning your truth expands you, and that, somehow, every humbling season is necessary for our growth.If you’ve ever hit a breaking point you didn’t see coming—if you’ve ever wondered how to find meaning when the bottom drops out—this episode is for you. Let’s talk about what it really means to surrender, to be human, and to rebuild from the inside out.Because the truth is, when life humbles you, it’s not punishment—it’s an invitation.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Want an easy practice to up-level your life that you can start today? Todays "Tiny Courage" series is a quick short-form podcast on a practice that I've recently adopted that has decreased stress, added to my joy, and drastically up-leveled my life. I'll share what it is and how you can adopt it for yourself--all in under 10 minutes.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Feeling negative or pessimistic isn't a judgment--you aren't bad or wrong if you experience these feelings. But staying in negativity and pessimism will only get you stuck in negativity and pessimism, and the only person who with the power to shift you out of that space is...you. In today's podcast episode, we're talking about how to get unstuck when negativity and pessimism have hung around for far too long.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

No one has a hassle-free life, and sometimes when we're going through a difficult time, the things in life that we don't like become out-sized in our mind, bigger and more of a challenge than they really need to be. In todays' "Tiny courage series" I'm sharing a reframe for how to handle the things in life that you don't like, with courage.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

People-pleasing is a tough fear pattern to transcend, because it brings with it so many unconscious benefits (approval!) and when we step out of it, we often feel discomfort (the guilt of not saying 'yes'!). In today' podcast episode, I'm diving into how you can recognize and stop people-pleasing by identifying your most common triggers and reframing the belief systems that underlie a people-pleasing pattern. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

In today's "Tiny Courage series" I'm offering a short-form podcast episode about a powerful reframe for difficult parents that I was offered during a coaching session, that altered the course of my life. If you've found that you've done some work to release the past yet still feel something that isn't fully resolved, this powerful reframe for your difficult parents can be life-changing.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

There’s the deeper work that someone can do around shifting anxiety--looking at old trauma, familial patterns, the conditioning you were raised with. That tends to be longer term work to look at root causes that result in feeling anxiety in the here-and-now, and that is valuable work to do. But what about when you need to shift anxiety, fast? That’s the help I want to provide in today’s episode, offering 6 specific ways to shift anxiety, fast. 🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Self-doubt is just another form of fear. When you're stuck in self-doubt, the anxiety, ruminating, and over-thinking things starts to take over until we feel tied in knots. But with one simple question, you can shift your self-doubt and stop letting it run on auto-pilot. Today's tiny courage episode is a short and sweet take on this essential question for how you can shift self-doubt.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Our thoughts have a lot of power over our behavior, including whether or not we notice opportunities or adopt a positive or negative attitude. When it comes to money, most people need to work on how to shift their money mindset into a more open space, and in today’s episode of the Your Courageous Life podcast I’m sharing the top 3 beliefs that you’ll need to examine in order to get out of scarcity and shift your money mindset.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.

Today's Your Courageous Life podcast will feature another episode from our series that we're calling the "Tiny Courage series." If you've been wanting to get more mindfulness practices into your life but feel like they take too much time, here's a five-minute mindfulness practice to try out and information on resources to access additional (free) meditation and mindfulness support.🚨 This isn’t just a podcast—it’s your wake-up call. If you’ve been smiling through the grind, holding back your truth, or checking every box while something inside you feels like it’s suffocating—it’s time to start a living practice of courage: → Rewire your relationship to fear: Courageous Living® Program→ Join a life-changing program, to become a life-changing coach: CLCC→ Build a business that feels like YOU: The Coaching Blueprint®→ Get the real-real on becoming a life coach: The Craft of Coaching Podcast Start now: YourCourageousLife.com Social: 📸 Instagram | 🎵 TikTok | 📺 YouTube | 📌 Pinterest Please note...while this podcast may discuss protocols to improve mental or physical health, listeners should always consult a qualified provider before following any advice or undertaking any changes to their lifestyle.