Calm AF | Overthinking, Anxiety & Nervous System Regulation

There is no such thing as a perfect morning routine for everyone, but there is absolutely a morning routine that is right for YOU. And it's worth having one because the beginning of your day is your energetic foundation.   Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! h...

Approval addiction is the result of seeking other people's opinions to determine your own self-worth. Just like any substance addiction, approval addiction is terribly self-limiting and comes at a hefty cost. Today, I offer some guidance towards recovery as a fellow – recovering – approval addict.   AND!   Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our onlin...

Your words matter. When you use empowered words, you strengthen neural pathways that become the automatic path to empowered actions. You've got to start choosing your words mindfully. Let's talk HOW.   AND!   Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! https://kristen...

To change any habit, you must be consistent in your effort - everyone knows this. What people don't tell you is that consistent -ish is far more viable. If you want inner peace, if you want to feel more CALM in your life, you need to be relentlessly committed AND consistent- ish .   AND!   Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neur...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   If you want to create something new, you need to align your current daily habits with your future self's daily habits – which means dropping these bad ones.   AND! Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! https://kristenfinch.com/oppositeaf Subscribe to Calm AF o...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   When you try to race too fast towards your Future Self, you don't give your identity a chance to catch up - so take that manifesting slow and steady , baby.   AND! Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! https://kristenfinch.com/oppositeaf Subscribe to Calm AF o...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   Here's something that I hear a lot: "I know the things I should be doing, Kristen. I'm just not doing them." So let's look at why that is. If you want to create something extraordinary, remember: what matters the MOST is how you show up in your day-to-day life. If you're not showing up for your future self every day, then you'...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   In Part 3 of the Calm AF decluttering series, we are talking about emotional clutter. Emotions are energy that's created and stored inside your body, energy that physically interacts with your chemistry, your organs, your cells – best to keep emotional clutter to a minimum. In fact, if you are tending to physical and mental cl...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   In Part 2 of the Calm AF decluttering series, we are talking about mental clutter. Most people don't think about clutter being something that accumulates in the mind. But we think thousands of thoughts every day, and not all those thoughts serve us. In this episode, I give you actions that you can do on your own to get the men...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   The physical clutter in your living and working spaces is impacting your energy; the calm AF approach to decluttering is an act of self love. It's a thing you do FOR yourself because of how it makes you feel, because you deserve to feel SUPPORTED, because – while the tidiness of your house has NOTHING to do with your worthines...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Curiosity lightens EVERYTHING up because it isn't looking for ONE definitive RIGHT answer. Curiosity is all about wonder. Curiosity is playfully looking for options. Curiosity is going to help you reconnect with who you really are, what you like, what you don't like, what you want, what you don't want. So you gotta put on your c...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   Let's talk about thought spin-outs. This is when one anxious fear thought shows up, and before you can grab the thought to manage it, it's already spun off to another thought – and another thought and another thought. Thought spinouts feel like anxiety, they feel out of control.   Most of the time in a spin out, the thoughts a...

Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join.   I hear it all the time: "I *get* the concept of self love...it just feels hard." Of COURSE it does. You were born into and have bought into a society that persistently teaches you that you aren't enough. You have been taught since childhood that getting the approval of others is what decided whether you were worthy. And you ha...

No matter what adulthood looks like for you, JOY is still inside of you. You do not have to learn how to feel joy, you just have to remember how to access it again. So, how DO you reconnect with who you really are, find activities that reconnect you to your JOY as an adult? That's what today's episode is all about.   Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF...

In your work of getting aligned with your calm AF self (your future self), you will inevitably revisit old stories. Stay on track by focusing on what's working. Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! https://kristenfinch.com/oppositeaf Subscribe to Calm AF on You...

In order to create your calm AF life, you are going to have to do very hard things. Scary? Yes. Worth it? 1,000,000 percent. Here are three ways my clients and friends set themselves up for success when it's time to do the hard thing. And. Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available t...

"Stuck" can be a nasty habit to break. It's time to stop fighting for that habit you DON'T want and start allowing what you DO want. Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships, is now live and available to all! Join us! https://kristenfinch.com/oppositeaf Subscribe to Calm AF on YouTube to get even more good s...

Nothing changes without doing things that feel hard. Whether it's setting a boundary, saying NO to someone, learning how to not let the fear of GUILT stop you from every freaking thing you want to try, or not letting the fear of other people's opinions dictate how you live your life. So, you have a choice to make when it comes to creating the life you want: hard now, or hard forever? Calm AF Life...

Changes happen with radical self-acceptance: embracing who you ARE, instead of pushing and exhausting yourself striving to be something different. Aligning with how you WANT to feel creates the change you want – NOT without effort, but without RESISTANCE, without giving up on yourself, without exhaustion. Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online...

The best goals to set are the ones that you can achieve and which support your Future Self. Here are the inspired actions to take to manifest them: Acknowledge what's already working Evaluate where you are now Decide how you WANT to feel Create alignment banks Choose one or two feeling states to focus on Want to go deeper? Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is online now! Tap here to join. Oppos...

Being hard on yourself makes manifesting your goals hard – if not impossible. And the inverse is also true: goals grounded in self-kindness, worthiness, and calm AF energy almost – almost – manifest themselves.  In today's episode, part 8 of the Calm AF Life series, I'm sharing the method that I personally use to set, work towards, and achieve my own goals. Whatever you set out to achieve in 2023...

You can't create your Future Self by thinking the same way as your current self; it requires aligning with your Future Self. So, before you set any goals, before you make decisions, before you set an intention for the day, you want to align with your Future Self and find out what THEY have to say about it. Today I'm sharing the simple 3-step exercise that helps you access your Future Self today so...

Once you commit to your calm AF Future Self, you soon realize that you will always be on the path to your Future Self. Not because your Future Self is always out of reach, but because once you arrive at your Future Self, you realize there's more growing, more learning, more experiencing, more wisdom, more life ahead of you. It's a path with countless new beginnings – but it doesn't have to be ardu...

In part 5 of Calm AF Life, I want to dive into your energy. Mastering your energy is the most powerful skill you can learn. So, let's talk about what energy is (spoiler: it's everything) and how to start owning yours, regardless of what's going on outside of you. Calm AF Life – my lifetime program – is enrolling now! Tap here to join. Opposite AF, our online course for neurodiverse relationships,...

Calm AF Life Launches TODAY!!! Tap here to join. Calm AF Life is my lifetime coaching program that will get you OUT of your head, help you STOP worrying about the things that won't ultimately matter, and bring you back INTO your life. Joining Calm AF Life gives you lifetime access to the entire immersive course, including videos, classes, coaching, and other content. Calm AF Life lessons are desig...