“I had no choice”, “this is how it has to be”, and “it is what it is” - for some people these aren’t just statements, these are the basis of their entire reality. 

Rather than seeing themselves as architects with a wealth of choices to shape their lives, they feel resigned to the idea that things are fixed just as they are. No alternatives and no changes.  

This way of thinking goes back to the same place: the old stories we run in our minds become the cages that limit our own lives. It’s like we’re sitting in a container that shrinks our possibilities, but we can open the door anytime we want. 

In any given situation, there are many possible choices but if our field of view is limited, we’ll never allow ourselves to see them. The result? We give our power away to the external world, and feel oppressed by the misery of seemingly being choiceless. 

How do we learn to shift out of all these stories, and truly tap into our creative engine that gives us hundreds of choices? How do we see endless possibilities where others see limited options? 

In this episode, we talk about how to stop limiting yourself and believing you have no choices. 

Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

-Be Response-ABLE

People limit their own choices because of fear. How do you reclaim responsibility and start to see all the other options that are available to you? 

-Activate curiosity and wonder 

How do we identify the old stories that are making us feel choiceless, how do we change the framework?

-Make a new choice

Let’s admit it: old stories are comforting because they are familiar, not because they are helpful. How do we create a new context around curiosity and choices? 

 

Register for Katie’s Newest Program, Cultivating New Stories for Humanity, and learn how to create new stories that serve your ultimate aliveness and expansion!

Add “Be Play Love” in the Additional Notes section on the checkout page, and receive a complimentary copy of Gay Hendricks’ latest book, Your Big Leap Year.

 

About Your Hosts

Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., BC-DMT*, is an evolutionary catalyst and freelance mentor who has been a pioneer in the field of body intelligence and conscious loving for over forty years. Katie has an international reputation as a presenter and seminar leader, bodifying the core skills of conscious living–authenticity, response-ability and appreciation–with conscious enthusiasts from many fields. She is the co-author of twelve books, including the best-selling Conscious Loving, At The Speed of Life and Conscious Loving Ever After: How to Create Thriving Relationship at Midlife and Beyond. Katie has been a successful entrepreneur for over forty years. She specializes in turning concepts such as commitment into felt experience and igniting new actions that emerge from the inside out. Her unique coaching and leadership programs have generated hundreds of body intelligence and relationship coaches in the U.S. and Europe. She co-founded the Spiritual Cinema Circle and the virtual Body Intelligence Summit. Katie has appeared on over 500 radio and television programs and traveled well over one million air miles as the ambassador for the work that she and her husband Gay Hendricks have developed.

 

Sophie Chiche is a seasoned coach and consultant who has traveled the world working with thousands of people and dozens of teams. With a passion for fully expressed living, Sophie coaches, and facilitates group sessions to help people and teams remove what gets in the way of them living their most meaningful lives.Not only does she work with clients to design the life they want, but she's also developed methods, mindsets shifts, and healing modalities to create it elegantly. Born in Paris, raised in Barcelona, and lived in LA for 30 years, Sophie now lives in the middle of nowhere Arizona, where she rides her Harley with her boo, Wall. And plays a lot of pickleball.

 

Episode Resources:

https://hendricks.com/seminar/cultivating-new-stories-for-humanity-2025/

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