Dealing Healing

In this episode Dr. Katie interviews Damien Horton, founder of Limitless Initiatives, about disentangling identity from personality. Damien shares his near-death experience and the radical perspective shift that followed: that much of who we think we are is conditioned adaptation, not our core self. They discuss how catching the ‘mental terrorist’—the voice that repeats “I can’t”—creates space for metacognition, neuroplastic change, and conscious personality design. Practical guidance focuses on stepping out of familiar patterns, facing fear rather than avoiding it, and using small, consistent actions to rewire the brain and reclaim agency over your life.

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What does it mean to stop performing and start living from your true energy? This episode centers on authenticity as a therapeutic intervention: showing up human, naming one clear truth about yourself, and letting that guide boundaries and decisions. Amanda Baker and Dr. Katie discuss the fear of disappointing others, how to speak needs without hinging worth on outcomes, and the courage to stay with uncomfortable emotions rather than instantly fixing them. For healers and anyone exhausted by achievement culture, the conversation offers compassionate experiments — turn off notifications, ask for help, and practice being rooted in worth that requires no earning.

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This episode explores workplace trauma—how chronic stress, humiliation, unpredictable bosses, impossible workloads, and lack of psychological safety can injure bodies and minds over time. Dr. Jennifer Todd and host Dr. Katie unpack why women are disproportionately affected: social expectations to be likable and caretaking roles, structural pay and advancement gaps that widen with age, and the financial tether that keeps many people in harmful jobs. They trace how repeated microtraumas train the nervous system to stay on alert, leading to dread, sleep loss, and identity loss. The conversation reframes healing as curiosity about bodily signals, not instant quitting.

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This episode explores how social pressure, influencers, and habit hand us an off-the-rack identity—and how to reclaim personal style without getting trapped in comparison or consumerism. Ina and Dr. Katie emphasize internal work first: clarifying purpose, noticing emotional reactions to trends, and asking what part of yourself wants expression today. They offer accessible practices—monthly closet maintenance, artist dates for inspiration, mindful shopping questions, and soft introductions like lingerie or jewelry—to bridge inner transformation and outward expression. The takeaway: fashion can be a mirror, magnet, and amplifier for who you truly are when chosen with awareness and gratitude.

Inna Korobkina is a creative entrepreneur, style consultant, podcast host, advocate for the slow fashion movement, and mom, as well as the author of the interactive fashion journal My Style Journey Guide. She grew up in Magadan, a small town in Siberia, before moving to North America to walk runways, appear on magazine covers, and share the screen with some of the biggest names in Hollywood.

Upon learning about the global fashion industry’s impact on the planet, she launched Jewel Branding Studios, an image consulting company that offers a distinctive approach to personal style shaped by her experience and training as an actress. Her signature methodology is rooted in 12 fashion archetypes and champions a biodiverse, mindfully built wardrobe as a path to a more fulfilling, balanced life and the joy that comes from feeling creatively expressed.

Inna now brings her blend of creativity, mindfulness, and sustainability to clients who want to align their outer image with their inner values, helping them show up with confidence, authenticity, and ease—on camera, on stage, and in everyday life.

Find out more about Inna's Styled to Shine program, which is a 4-module video-guided online program custom-created for wellness entrepreneurs and creatives to help them build a capsule business wardrobe, so they can take visual command during their time in the spotlight and become unforgettable. The audience can learn more about this program and my other offerings at this link https://innasstudio.base44.app/services

Inna's journal can be found at: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-style-journey-guide-inna-korobkina/1150231036?ean=9781964754550

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This episode dives into identity shifts that happen during spiritual awakening and chronic illness. Heather recounts changing her wardrobe to white as a ritual to stop hiding and stop lying to herself, and explains the power of rituals, silence, and honest conversations with friends to catalyze transformation. Katie and Heather examine the difference between faith and belief, the social costs of speaking spiritual truths, and why many people default to doing everything until the body forces them to stop. Listeners are offered concrete steps: keep seeking medical answers, create a support pact, carve time for silence, and start small journaling or dictation practices.

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Dr. Katie interviews Annie, an intuitive health practitioner who helps high-functioning women move from numb productivity to embodied living. They discuss how exhaustion, brain fog, disrupted sleep, and hormonal shifts become normalized and ignored until burnout forces change. Annie emphasizes individualized care — food as medicine, movement tailored to life stage, nervous system regulation, and mindset work around worthiness. They dismantle “bro science” fitness trends that don’t serve women, encourage reclaiming joy and community, and offer practical steps: ask curious questions, use symptoms as feedback, and prioritize sustainable, personalized practices over one-size-fits-all checklists.

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Spoiler alert: Annie and I was working a few more topics and episodes... more to come :)

This episode unpacks soul contracts, intuition, and the interplay of logic and feeling. Teresa describes soul contract readings as a framework to understand patterns, talents, and karmic lessons — not punishment but a roadmap for growth. Dr. Katie and Teresa discuss how intuition shows up differently for everyone (images, sensations, animals, words) and why discernment matters: fear can be a signal, not a stop sign. They urge listeners to reclaim sovereignty, find guides who ask ‘what does your soul want?’, and create space for joy and presence instead of defaulting to societal scripts about success and identity.

For more information about Teresa please seek her out at: https://teresawornstaff.com/

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The episode closes with practical guidance for beginners: cultivate stillness, practice theta or wakeful-sleep meditation, and use focused attention exercises like deeply feeling a tree or the surface under your hand. Michael Monk recommends validating the faintest spiritual signals rather than dismissing them as imagination, and he offers free trials of his Avatar Energy Mastery courses. Host Dr. Katie frames the conversation as a bridge between psychology and mysticism, reminding listeners that healing is a thread—not a prescription—and to seek professional support when needed. The takeaway: turn your inner eye to the heart and learn to trust what your body and spirit already know.

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In this episode Dr. Katie interviews Lexi Reed, founder of The Mind Art Wellness, about why creativity is essential for high-achieving people — especially women in STEM — facing stress and burnout. Lexi shares her own burnout story from the pandemic and how simple, non‑intimidating creative practices helped her nervous system reset. She explains the rationale behind a proactive, forward-facing creative wellness model (her 12‑week Creative Reset), contrasts coaching and group work, and gives tangible exercises—pen-and-paper visual journaling, mandalas, and timed breathing drawings—to help listeners loosen perfectionism, build boundaries, and regain time and joy.

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This episode reframes medicine as a broad, relational practice centered on attending, tending, and care. Dr. Katie contrasts clinical treatment with everyday healing practices—sleep, movement, ritual, grief work, nature, and social connection—and urges listeners to stop treating feelings in isolation. She discusses barriers to seeking care (shame, fear, isolation) and the power of community groups and therapy to witness suffering. Using personal anecdotes and therapeutic perspective, she encourages experimenting with a new internal question: when discomfort arises, ask what needs tending. The takeaway: not everything called medicine heals, and much that heals isn’t in a bottle.

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