My Coach Kate
Episodes
216 episodes
That's Not About Me
Socializing can be fun. It can be energizing. It can also be draining and something that some of us need to recover from to recharge. When someone says something that triggers our nervous system, how can you recover quickly? It's helpful to hav...
The Cost of Avoiding Conflict
Picture a picture-perfect preschool classroom. Some of the words that might come to mind are calm, quiet, busy, organized, structured. I have always thought so. But come with me down a rabbit hole in this episode to challenge that a little bit....
The Complaint That Never Was
What are the things that didn't go very well today? How easily are you able to come up with this list? It is human nature to notice what things go wrong. What things are out of place around us or what doesn't belong in the environment. It is mo...
Using AI for Meditation
Have you ever tried to meditate before? What do you think about meditation? Do you have images of a roomful of people humming or sitting in silence who are deep in a trance and who have clear minds? Let's explore all of the different ways that ...
When Things Don't Go as Planned
When was the last time that you made a detailed plan? A party or event? A trip? Were you in charge of a planning committee? How did your plan compare to the final event? Chances are your preparation was helpful. Vital, even. But were there at l...
Vacation Vibes
Are you one of the many people that live for vacation time? If so, I wonder if you have ever stopped to think about why it is, that we tolerate our daily life and stay on the 'go-go-go' pace of zooming through our to-do list and getting all of ...
What Belief Does
Think about those who are truly faithful to someone or something greater in the universe. Whether it is God or Spirit or aliens or manifestation- whatever it is.... those who have very strong beliefs have some benefits that come- not from WHAT ...
How to Raise a Good Communicator
We all want a partner that communicates well with us. Those partners who are calm, rational, understanding, and are good listeners get their skills from somewhere. If we raise children and teach children how to have those skills and to practice...
How to Be Enough
Everyone has different challenges, but it very often has this at the center: the question of "Am I Enough?" Let's look at some different versions of this question and why it is there in the first place. How does it relate to our self-talk and w...
How to Be a Lifelong Learner
How many interests do you have? That's a question that we might have been asked as a child but that no one asks us anymore. How many hobbies do we have and how many would we like to have? Many of us would have more interests if we had a insurge...
Silence and Patience
How often do you use silence when you are having a conversation as a strategy? How often are you patient when you are listening to someone else talk? What if I told you that these are a couple of your superpowers, when you know how to use them ...
The Balance of Being in Charge
What are some tools or strategies that you use when you are feeling like someone else is trying to control you? Or maybe they aren't even trying but you give up what you want to accommodate them? Whether its to keep the peace or to be nice or b...
Your Personal Constitution
All of the little decisions that we make everyday- big ones, little ones: they can sometimes lead to decision fatigue. We are going to talk about a personal document that you can create that can cut through all of the chaos. What if you had a g...
One Good Decision Leads to Another
Did you ever wish that it felt easier to say 'yes' to yourself for those decisions when you WISH that you would decide to do something a certain way for yourself, but you just keep on deciding the other way. Maybe you don't go exercise. Or you ...
More Than the After Photo
When we picture ourself achieving a goal that we have set for ourselves, how many times do we put ourselves into that scenario in our mind and imagine us as confident, happy, and no longer struggling with any challenges are problems. It sounds ...
What is Sisu?
There is a concept that comes from Finland called Sisu. We are going to explore what this concept is and how it can give you a different mindset in your daily life. The result will be clearing out some of the mental load that we carry in our br...
The Self Care Series: Celebrating You!!
Woohoo- we did it! We have shared 100 episodes together and this will close out our Self-Care Series. Altogether 11 episodes on taking really good care of you, so that you can be the best version of yourself. The version that you want to be. We...
The Self-Care Series: Being on Your Own Team
Who has your back more than anyone else in the world? You might have thought about your mom, your best friend, your partner...... But what about yourself? How big of a cheerleader are you are to encourage yourself along the way? Most of us grew...
The Self-Care Series: Making Small, Low-Pressure Connections
We have all heard how important connections with others are to longevity, quality of life, and our social and emotional health. But what happens when you know that you need connection and you just don't feel like it. Or it feels like too much w...
The Self-Care Series: Allowing Yourself to Be Bad at Things
When was the last time that you tried something new. Were you good at it? Are there things that you have thought about trying, but if only you had learned how to do it when you were younger..... We hesitate to start something if we won't be at ...
The Self-Care Series: Making Room for What Lights You Up
As we continue this series, we are going to bring you back to your childhood to think about how you enjoyed your playtime. When adults play, we call it our hobbies. What hobbies do you have and do you actually take time regularly to indulge in ...
The Self-Care Series: Planning for Energy, Not Just Time
How many of us plan out our day using time blocks, estimating how long tasks will take, filling up the hours of the day with appointments and tasks. Today, we will think about our day in a new way. We will consider something called an Energy Mi...
The Self-Care Series: Doing Things Before You Feel Ready
When was the last time that you sat on the couch trying to talk yourself into getting up and getting to something. It might have been something that you KNOW that you really want to do. Or something that you are trying to START doing. Somehow, ...
The Self-Care Series: Learning How YOU Get Motivated
We often think of motivation as something that other people have and something that we don't have. Or that others have more of it. The good news is that none of that is true. We all have motivation and our brain activates it under certain circu...
The Self-Care Series: Letting Things Be Easier than they 'Should' Be
As we continue our Self-Care series, it's time to examine the habits and practices in our life that are more time-consuming, more complicated, and harder than they have to be. There is a secret reason why we hold on to a strategy and a practice...
