My Coach Kate

Have you ever thought about the things that we do to make ourselves feel better? How do you get through a stressful day? Can we find any lessons in taking a look at the way that babies learn to self-soothe themselves? How do they do it and what is at the root of what we do? Let's talk about this so that we can find the ways that are most effective and healthy for our lives. 

How do you decide what it is that you fit into your morning routine? Have you had the same morning routine for years and years? Or does it change over time? Or is it completely different every day? What are your morning tasks tied to? Is it the short-term goals that you have for the day? Or do any of your tasks get you a little bit closer to your long-term goals? Let's jump in and look at how...

Sometimes you find yourself in a difficult decision. Maybe it's even a small decision, but it feels like a little tug of war between what you want in the moment and what you wish that you would decide to give yourself what it is that you like in the long run. When this happens, I have a tool for you that you can use to make it feel easier. Learning the art of practice is one way to kick perfe...

Do you ever wish that you could have more control over things in your life? What about over other people or even over things like our country's election? It can feel terrible wrestling with the fact that we just don't have control over things. Let's take a look at how shifting your mindset just a little bit can help you let go a little bit. Can help you focus on something else. Can...

Think about the way that you live your every-day life. How many days seem the same? How many days are filled with activities that are closely aligned with your core values? We have all established some habits that we WANT to keep. They are habits that help us stay close to those values. Or they propel us towards our goals. And then we have other habits. That feel comforting but are not as aligned...

What are you doing right now? Right this very minute? Now I know that you are looking at the description on this episode, but what else is going on in your life today? Can you picture others who are having the same kind of day as you today? What about the exact opposite kind of day? Let's take a look at another tool for your toolbox that can help to put your life into perspective very quickly...

Have you ever had a See and Say wheel when you were little? If not, are you familiar with that old toy where you pull down the lever or pull the string to see which farm animal it will land on and make that noise? We are going to talk about what that old vintage toy has to do with choosing the thoughts in your head, the feelings that you have and the actions that you choose. After listening to thi...

We all want things and we all like things. What is the difference, really? Very often it is easy to identify the things that we want. It requires an action to give something to ourselves right away, in the moment. It takes a little bit more considering to figure out what the things are that we like. Usually it's a good feeling that we get after something happens. Or when we are proud of ourse...

We all get stressed sometimes. We all find ourselves in situations when we reach for a tried and true strategy to help us to calm down. To help us to decide something. To help us to be accepting, to be kind, to stop judging someone else or ourselves. We tend to use the same strategies over and over again. Some of them work well. Sometimes we try a strategy that does not work well enough. And we th...

When was the last time that you made a big decision? How did it affect or change your life? Did you stick to it? Come with me this week and learn the definition of decision that changed the way that I think about my decisions. It was an AHA moment this week that I want to share with you. It was something that I used to motivate me and change the view that I have about the decisions that I make. I...

When you have a big block of time in front of you, how do you handle it? Do you have a to-do list a mile long? Do you spend more time than you should relaxing? How productive is your day? Is it hit-or-miss if it will be a super-productive day or a wash? Here is a tried-and-true strategy that you can use to make sure that you will always hit it out of the park AND have your time to rest and rejuven...

What are the big milestones that you have achieved in your life? What are the ones that you have coming up? Think about your biggest goals. Today we are going to talk about what ACTUALLY makes up the important stuff of your life. You will be surprised that it just might not be those big goals. This is a practical episode that can help you to start enjoying your life a little bit more, right now: t...

Why is it that we look at other people who have accomplished big goals, or the goals that WE want to accomplish, and somehow believe that they have gotten to that point all by themselves? Why do we stop and start and struggle, by trying to figure things out by ourselves? We know that there are people who would be happy to help us, but something is getting in our way from getting that help- what is...

What is the goal that you have kept in the back of your mind for a while now? The one that you keep delaying starting on? Guess what? It's time to stop putting that one on the back burner. We are getting started with this goal THIS WEEK and I will do it right along with you! Let's have a chat about why you haven't gotten started yet and find out what is involved on stepping aboard t...

Think about the current goals that you have for yourself. Especially the goals that have been goals for a while. What are you doing to obtain those? Have you outlined all of the steps to get there? Are you following those steps most of the time? I bet that if someone asked you how committed you feel towards this goal, you might say that you are fully committed. Let's take a look at why your b...

Have you done something recently that had you questioning why you did it after the fact? And how did you ask yourself that question? Was it with judgement and shame? Did you feel upset with yourself, or angry, or ashamed? Let's take a look at what element could be much more useful when you find yourself asking that question of yourself. There is a way to make that a powerful question that can...

What is that you really get out of a coaching session? If we don't go to a coach for expert advice, and we don't go to a coach to tell us what it is that we should do, then what is it that coaching can offer to us? It is a chance to have someone to help us to examine our own minds and our own thinking. There are tiny, little perspective shifts that we can make that will change a lot. Her...

Whether or not you have ever been coached before, there is always a very first coaching experience. What was yours like? If you have never been coached before, what do you THINK it would be like? There are so many different types of coaching programs. Let's take a look at a few different types, so that if you are ever in the market for a coach for yourself, you can have some knowledge of whic...

Have you ever watched any reality TV? What about reality game shows? Well I have been indulging in some of these this week and I have some thoughts. I identified one theme that really stood out among multiple shows and it got me thinking about true integrity. The kind of integrity that seems like an ideal? What are the results that a person creates when they have that type of true character? And w...

We all come up against things that we wanted to do, planned to do, feel like we SHOULD do, and we just don't feel like it. We come up with reasons why we can't. Why it's not a good idea. With other things that are more important than that, in the moment. How do we know when our brain is giving us good information and when it is giving us an excuse? Did you know that you can't r...

Today is a chance to understand some Life Coach 'speak'. I am going to give you some insight into how a Life Coach would use this technique, the Elevator Technique, on a client in a session. Why, do you ask? Understanding one strategy of this technique just might be able to help you when you are coaching yourself and you are feeling stuck. We all have some blind spots in our thinking and...

What is decision fatigue? It is the drain on your brain from making thousands of little decisions throughout your day and your week. It is the resulting exhaustion and not being sure, really, why you are so exhausted. What is the solution and how can we put it into effect right away to make our life better, give us more energy and more brain power for other things? It's easier than you think!

Let's take a look at an analogy about a cup of coffee. Ultimately, we will be talking about what it is that you fill 'your cup' with. When life bumps into you, what comes spilling out of your cup. What would you LIKE to fill your cup up with? Let's consider whether or not this is another area of your life in which you have some control and one area that you never considered bef...

This week, we are going to do something a little bit different. We aren't going to talk about something, but we are going to explore the absence of something. Those moments in time in which we get a glimpse of what 'nothing' might be. What is it actually? What is left when all of the somethings are cleared away? Let's have a little conversation and you can see what you think &a...

I know that you have heard the terms gut health and microbiomes thrown around and that you know that they have to do with digestion. But it can be all confusing because we constantly hear that certain foods are good to eat for one diet and terrible to eat in another diet. Your digestion is actually related to so many things so I want to help make it a little bit clearer as far as what things to do...