Katie Hendricks, PhD & Sophie Chiche

Be. Play. Love.

What if personal transformation didn't have to be HARD?What if you could PLAY your way through obstacles in life and relationships? That's what the conversations on Be. Play. Love. reveal to you. Listen in and learn how to embrace your whole self. Pull up a chair and let's explore how to…- Live your life fully in your purpose- Interrupt old patterns and befriend your feelings- Experience "play" as a way of beingJoin us each week if you want to live consciously, joyfully, and transform your life and relationships, (especially when confronted with the unexpected and unknown!)Hosted by Katie Hend...

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Katie Hendricks, PhD & Sophie Chiche

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Latest episode

Aug 26, 2025

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Episodes

An Aligned Exhale: How to Conclude Without Conflict 26.08.2025

Most people wait for burnout, conflict, or disaster before ending something that's no longer in alignment. We've both done that in the past, pushing forward because things were "still going well," even when a quiet inner voice was saying it was time to move on. But sometimes, the most life-giving move is to complete a chapter while there's still joy, ease, and connection in it. In this special fin...

Complete to Create: How to Stop Having Unfinished Business w/ Gay Hendricks 19.08.2025

Most people are either rehashing the past or obsessing over the future - never living in the present moment. The result? Walking around with major incompletions that keep us from connection, creativity, and wholeness. Carrying unfinished conversations, unspoken words, unresolved feelings, and unfelt experiences. And that robs us of something precious…all the incredible things we could be creating...

How to Use Your Voice to Heal, Express, and Connect (Even If You Can't Sing) w/ Noga Rappaport-Varadi 12.08.2025

We think our voices are just how we speak, how we communicate, how we're understood, but they are so much more than that. They are our own unique vocal fingerprint, our own frequency, and a way people identify us, but it goes even deeper. Our voices are instruments that communicate our inner landscape, and they can be vehicles for aliveness, creativity, healing, and wellbeing. What's funny is that...

The Inner Rubber Ducky: How to Interrupt Your Inner Critic with Play 05.08.2025

We live in a world that trains us to focus on negativity. A world that wants us to contract, to judge, and expect the worst from ourselves (and others). That's why being self-critical is our default. We absorb the script early: that we're not good enough, not lovable enough, not deserving of ease or joy. Over time, that internal voice becomes automatic, so automatic that we don't even hear it anym...

How to Shed The Weight (of What Wasn't Said) 29.07.2025

For so many people, excess weight isn't about laziness or lack of willpower — it's about carrying unspoken stories. It's about living in a body that holds the weight of feelings your voice never got to share. Because when you can't tell the truth — or even acknowledge what's real — your body will speak for you. But what if the path to healing and releasing the excess weight is actually about allow...

FACT: The Framework That Turns Fear Into Freedom 22.07.2025

Fear isn't just a fleeting feeling that visits quietly. It hijacks your nervous system, clouds your judgment, and makes even the smallest decisions feel paralyzing. It's a fog that clouds your decisions, disconnects you from your body, and shuts down your creativity and sense of possibility. Triggered by something unexpected, challenging, or painful, fear can make us feel stuck, but there is a way...

Your Body Knows the Family Secret, Use These Tools to Uncover It w/ Christina Trifero 15.07.2025

What if the aches in your body aren't entirely yours? The shoulder pain, the gut tension, or the sense of incompletion might not just be physical. It could be the echo of a secret held for decades, maybe even generations? Because here's the thing: families hold secrets, but those secrets have a way of leaking out or leaving breadcrumbs. And if you're connected to your intuition, you can sense that...

The Making of Katie Hendricks: A Life Built on Curiosity and Embodied Wisdom 08.07.2025

We all have secrets, painful experiences, and even childhood challenges that affect us to this day. What if keeping them is what's keeping us unwell? Our culture teaches us to bottle in our truth, mask our emotions, and manage our image. But the body keeps score, and over time, that suppression turns into stress, disconnection, and even illness. What if healing is about processing these things thr...

The Performer's Gift: How to Awaken the Creativity in Others w/ Jennifer Blaine 01.07.2025

Most people don't think of themselves as creative. We say, "I'm not artistic," or "I can't perform," and leave it at that. But the truth is, creativity isn't reserved for the select few. It lives in everyone. It's baked into how we think, feel, dream, and respond to the world. The problem is that most of us were taught to shut it down. We were told to color inside the lines, follow the rules, and...

Your Creativity Isn't Dead...Here's How to Revive It w/ Laurie Shiers 24.06.2025

In a world that worships productivity, we've traded our inner spark for efficiency and completely lost the creativity that's vital to flow. For many of us, this disconnection with our creativity goes back to childhood. This is where we were taught not to be weird. Where we were trained to do things in one specific way, and forced to correct ourselves when we didn't. For years, we've heard negative...

How to Release the Old to Make Room for What's Next 17.06.2025

You're standing in front of a mess…clothes, memories, identities…scattered on the floor. A rod gives out, a shelf falls, or maybe your inner structure does. It looks like chaos, but it might just be intuition telling you: it's time to release the weight, it's time to let go. Whether it's a closet full of old identities, a childhood belief you've outgrown, or a lingering fear that you're still "too...

From Interruption to Inner Flow: How to Use Play As a Path to Wholeness w/ Alana Shaw 10.06.2025

Creativity isn't just a skill, it's a lifeline in a play-deprived society. When young people feel unseen, unheard, and unwelcome, they shut down. Their development gets interrupted. Their story gets cut short. But give them the joy of movement, and a place to express their creativity, and something transformational happens. They come alive. Not because someone told them what to say or how to be, b...

Embodied Power: How to Stop Running From Your Emotions w/ Julie Colwell 03.06.2025

The power-over / power-under / power-with dynamic isn't just something we have with other people, it often resides inside us.  When we override our emotions, suppress our sensations, and try to outmaneuver our discomfort, we manifest that dynamic.  We see it when we push past our sadness, armor over vulnerability, or try to exert power in ways that are loud and forceful instead of connected and qu...

When Love & Beliefs Collide: Repairing or Releasing a Friendship 27.05.2025

Here's an uncomfortable or even painful experience many people are having right now. Losing a friendship over differing political views or fundamental values. It hurts…but what if it's also a window into something deeper? In today's cultural climate, the divide between people often goes far beyond a simple disagreement or differing opinions. It can reveal a far deeper truth: when values clash, fri...

The Fear-Driven Urge to Fix and How to Get Past It 20.05.2025

Sometimes, the danger isn't real, but our bodies still act like it is. You're stuck in traffic, someone you love is upset, or a friend doesn't text back, and suddenly, you're spiraling.  Your heart races, your thoughts scramble, and before you know it, you're either fixing, fleeing, or shutting down.  What's happening? In a world that constantly pushes us to stay in control, we forget how to stay...

Psychedelic Presence: How to Heal the Places Words Can't Reach 13.05.2025

There are many ways we try to heal. Therapy, meditation, breathwork, movement, and mindset work - just to name a few.  These paths are powerful, transformative, and often life-changing. But sometimes, despite all the tools and effort, there are places within us that remain untouched, places our intellect can't quite reach. We're exploring one such threshold, where healing stops being something we...

From Defensiveness to Discovery: How to Stop Assuming the Worst 06.05.2025

We all do it. When there's silence, ambiguity, or the absence of clear feedback, we fill in the blanks with stories. But here's the problem: our minds don't reach for generous interpretations.  They default to criticism, fear, and doubt. Whether it's giving a talk, navigating a friendship, or reflecting on ourselves, we often assume the worst, even when reality is far more kind. Evolutionary survi...

How to Reclaim Creativity in a World Obsessed with Productivity 29.04.2025

In our world, productivity and creativity occupy two different buckets. The former is functional, necessary, and purposeful.  The latter is frivolous, chaotic, and irresponsible. It should be put on the back burner so that we can focus on "more important things." As a result, creative expression ends up as an afterthought, something we can only do after the real work is done. The problem is: so ma...

Working on Something New? Don't Bottle Fear In, Blurt It Out w/ Naz Perez 22.04.2025

Something most people underestimate about having a big vision is the process of bringing other people on board.  Whether it's an investment partner or a strategic collaborator, we're required to communicate what we see, open ourselves up to their opinions, and invite them to join us on a journey to an uncharted territory.  It's a vulnerable place, so of course, old fears, old stories, and upper li...

Play-Powered Living: What It Looks Like and How to Get There w/ Rabbi Jessica K. Marshall 15.04.2025

An aligned life filled with presence, playfulness, freedom and growth expresses itself in many ways. It shows up in our choices (and how we make them), our relationships, our words and how we live. In short, it's highlighted in our ability to Be, Play, and Love. Most people miss the fact that the process of finding one's own alignment is an inner game. It has little to do with what's happening out...

The Politeness Problem: How to Stop Withholding Your Truth 08.04.2025

In the name of politeness, we often sugarcoat or dilute the truth, twisting it into something softer that we think the other person would rather hear. Instead of saying what we truly mean, we go out of our way to smooth over situations in hopes they'll land better. Here's the issue: when we start holding back our real feelings, we disconnect from ourselves and others. We step out of alignment with...

How to Make Up Your Mind By Listening to Your Body 01.04.2025

One of the biggest barriers to us getting the things we really, really want are the mixed messages we send to ourselves. We want it, then we're not sure we do. We want it again and then we don't think it will work out. We definitely want it, but then we can't do it because it's risky.  When we want to go in a certain direction, we won't reach our desired destination this way. Instead, we need to b...

Aging Playfully: How to Make Peace With Uncomfortable Experiences w/ Dr. Susan Campbell 25.03.2025

If there's anything our culture likes to collectively ignore, resist and hide, it's aging. And yet, aging happens to every single one of us - whether it's aging parents, aging partners or aging selves, we all have an experience with it.  With age comes the opportunity for nourishment and deeper learning, but aging also comes with some unpleasant emotions and experiences.  Cognitive and physical de...

From 'Yeah, But' to 'Yes, And': How to Embrace Life's Flow with Wonder 18.03.2025

In improv and in life, "yes, and.." are two words that allow us to receive what's coming at us, integrate it and add to it in our own way. "Yes, and" has its own flipside which completely kills all play, wonder and joy, and it's known as "yeah, but". When people say "yeah but" when something happens, it makes them protect, contract and move away, instead of coming forward and connecting. Here's th...

Expand and Integrate: How to Successfully Navigate the Unknown 11.03.2025

Anytime we head into the unknown and want to break past a limit, a question arises inside of us, "is it safe for me to be this big out in the world?" That's because if we want something bigger, our ceiling has to rise to encompass that thing and that can be scary. Sometimes we'll expand into that bigger thing but then shrink back into our familiar shells. If we don't make our presence bigger than...

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