The Dr Kirstin Show

There’s something surprising I’ve learned from two very different journeys in my life. Training for an Ironman triathlon and healing from chronic illness have far more in common than most people realize. In this episode, I’m breaking down the unexpected parallels I’ve noticed between pushing my body through one of the world’s toughest endurance events and navigating my own healing journey with end...

This may be hard to hear, but the reason you haven't found solutions for your chronic symptoms isn't because you need another diagnosis, supplement, or protocol. You can chase those all day long but what you really need is clarity. Clarity and a roadmap that's specific to you. And you don't get those from labs, supplements, and diet changes alone. Do they help? Yes. But when they a...

We've been sold a story about transformation (and honestly trying to heal from chronic health issues) that sets us up to feel like we're failing when we're actually just in the middle of it. This is what healing and transformational journeys really look like. In this episode: A series recap: discipline, the control trap, protection patterns, identity, triggers, secondary gain, and the...

"The fact that part of you is loyal to the problem doesn't mean you're broken. It means you're human. And it means the work is deeper than behavior change." This one was really hard for me to hear when I was suffering with health issues and migraines, but it unlocked some major areas that lead to deep healing and relief. The question to start asking begins here: what would ac...

The anxiety you've been managing, the brain fog you've been pushing through, the exhaustion that no amount of sleep seems to fix are all your body's way of trying to communicate with you. Are you listening? In this episode: Why so many women are still struggling after therapy, programs, and doing all the right things and what's actually being missed What an HTMA reveals about the p...

Is there someone or something in your life that just gets under your skin? No matter how much you think about it, talk about it, or try to "change" it - you just still get the same feeling/reaction every time. Another way to think about triggers, is less of thinking about them as a "problem" and more of an opportunity to get curious. In this episode: The Carl Jung principle tha...

The clients of mine that heal from chronic pain and health issues are the ones who are able to transform into a better version of themselves. That's how they get out of the "gap". They finally understood that the person they were was the one that played a part or role in some way in creating the chronic health issues they had and that to finally heal they would need to change at the...

Have you ever gotten close to what you wanted only to see it seem to fall apart or pull away? You start to make progress losing weight and then somehow the momentum fades. You finally seem to have found something that's working for your chronic pain and health issues only to not completely follow through. I know it can seem like that part of you is the enemy, but what if the part of you that k...

When life feels out of control, most high-achieving women do the same thing: make a better plan. Track more. Optimize harder. But what if that instinct, the one that's kept you "on top of things", is actually the thing keeping you exhausted? In this episode: What "Stage 2 consciousness" is, and why control feels like peace but acts like a threat How chronic stress shows up in your body, even when...

Have you ever set a real goal, something you genuinely wanted, and then watched yourself slowly not do it? Not because you stopped caring, but because something invisible kept pulling you back? In this episode, Dr. Kirstin Lauritzen kicks off a brand new series with a truth that might just change everything: your struggle to stay consistent isn't a discipline problem. The world loves to tell y...

This episode is about anticipating the "hard" when you're not even in the hard part yet... and you're already exhausted by it. You can see it coming. You're bracing for it. And somewhere in that bracing, the good thing that's right in front of you just... slips by. If you've ever arrived at the finish line and realized you spent the whole race dreading the miles inste...

You've told yourself to calm down. You've tried to "logically" work your way out of it. You've taken the deep breath and repeated affirmations. And you've tried over and over again and it still doesn't work. What I need you to know is that, that's not a willpower problem. That's neuroscience and once you understand what's actually happening inside your bra...

You're not broken. But something has to change. You've been carrying this... the health issues that won't resolve, the relationship patterns that keep repeating, the feeling that no matter what you try, you can't quite get your life to where you want it to be. And somewhere deep down, you know there's something you're missing. What if the pain itself is the clue? In this ep...

A recent study showed that the microbiome can return to baseline about 30 days after antibiotics. And that's actually pretty interesting because a lot of current research has suggested it could take months after antibiotics for your gut to "come back to normal". So 30 days sounds reassuring, but in this episode we're going to dive into the nuance that often gets lost - even in re...

What happens when external success outpaces your inner life? In this episode, Dr. Kirstin sits down with Alexia Usgaard , private advisor to accomplished entrepreneurs, international speaker, and host of the Elevate Daily podcast, for a deeply resonant conversation on burnout, devotion, and what it truly means to lead from alignment rather than default. Alexia shares her journey from Silicon Valle...

High performers are very good at pushing through. Pushing through stress. Pushing through symptoms. Pushing through seasons that were never meant to be permanent. In this episode, I unpack the hidden cost of that pattern — especially for founders and high-capacity leaders who are used to relying on discipline, effort, and resilience to get results. We’ll talk about: Why “doing all the right things...

What happens when the strategies stop working, the pressure keeps building, and the life you’ve created no longer fits who you’re becoming? In this episode of The Dr. Kirstin Show , I’m joined by Ken Westgaard for an honest conversation about money, identity, nervous system overload, and what it actually looks like to rebuild from the inside out. Ken shares his story publicly for the first time, i...

What actually restores your energy when you’re not just tired… but worn down by trying to fix it? In this episode, I’m sharing why I created the Full Body Reset and what I learned from guiding the very first live round. Not from theory or trends, but from being inside the process myself and watching how real bodies responded when we stopped chasing symptoms and started supporting energy at the roo...

After years of working with high-performing women, I’ve learned this: symptoms don’t appear randomly. They show up when a nervous system has been carrying more than it can hold for too long. In this episode, Coach Emily Bishop and I explore the hidden cost of self-abandonment… especially for women who are capable, driven, and deeply accustomed to putting everyone else first. Fatigue, anxiety, irri...

Most high-performing women I work with aren’t stuck because they’re doing nothing. They’re stuck because they’re either doing everything or they don’t know what to do next — and either way, they don’t have a system that integrates it all. In this episode, I break down the two biggest mistakes that keep women running 7- and 8-figure businesses exhausted, even when they’re doing “all the right thing...

What if the reason you’re still burnt out, anxious, or stuck in the same symptoms… isn’t your hormones, your labs, or your strategy — but the subconscious programs running beneath your awareness? In today’s episode, I’m joined by NLP trainer and transformational coach Megan Blacksmith to unpack the patterns that silently run your decisions, your health, and your capacity as a high-performing woman...

Many women have done everything — hormone testing, supplements, seed cycling, even HRT — and still feel exhausted, inflamed, disconnected from their body, and completely confused. Here’s the truth no one is saying: hormones are messengers, not the root cause. In this episode, I show you the upstream systems that actually drive hormone symptoms — your gut, mitochondria, liver, nervous system, and e...

What if the reason you feel stuck, drained, or disconnected isn’t another hormone imbalance… but the energy of your home? In today’s conversation, I’m joined by Feng Shui practitioner and home-wellness expert Cody Maher for a powerful deep dive into the way your environment mirrors your internal world. And we go everywhere — from clutter patterns and lineage, to seasons, to trauma recovery, to the...

What if your body isn’t the problem—what if it’s the story you’ve been taught to believe about energy, success, and burnout? In this episode, Dr. Kirstin peels back the truth behind why so many high-achieving women feel like they're running on fumes —even when they’re doing “everything right.” Whether you're crushing your workouts, following the health protocols, or hustling in business or...

If you’ve ever said “I’m doing the work—but I still feel stuck,” this episode is for you. In this episode, I walk you through why 95% of your patterns aren’t changing—even when you know better. We’re not just talking mindset. We’re talking subconscious wiring, nervous system protection, and identity-level beliefs that were built for survival—not healing. You’ll hear how your subconscious actually...