Thank you for being here! This is a breif tapping exercise to support you coming back to your own life.

Hello and welcome to Koffee with Kris! Take a breath, grab your coffee... and settle in! This episode is about comparing yourself to others. You know what I am talking about - opening your phone and feeling good about yourself and your life... until you don't! Listen to hear more!

There is also a brief tapping exercise to begin moving away from comparison and back into your own wonderful life!

Welcome to Koffee with Kris!

Wherever you are as the week winds down, take this moment to land. Let your feet find the floor, let your shoulders drop, and take one slow breath in and a long breath out - then join me for a short tapping exercise to gently set it all down and step into the weekend lighter than you came in!

In this story episode, Kris shares a concert camping weekend where everything that could go wrong did: five hours at a truck stop, rained out sets, a soaking you could wring out of your hair, and a blown tire on the ride home. And somewhere in the middle of it all, her parentsw, weeks out from major surgery, dancing together under the lights.

This is an episode about fun as a decision instead of a forecast. About being allowed to say salty words first. And about what becomes possible when turning back and going forward costs exactly the same.

In This Episode:A family concert tradition spanning more than twenty years. The five hour truck stop and the honest, unglamorous middle of a hard day. The halfway point decision and why it applies far beyond road trips. Talking dad (and his walker) up to the show, and the laugh that came after the rain. Why joy that waits for perfect conditions almost never gets felt. A permission slip for having fun before everything is fixed.

A Question to Sit With This Week: Where in your life are you watiing for conditions to improve before you let yourself enjoy what is already here?

(Also posted as an article if you don't want to listen!)

This week I am telling a story about what happens when authenticity actually lands. Early in my HR Career, I walked into a manufacturing company where the union employees had built a wall between them and management. They did not trust HR and they certainly did not trust HR. But instead of staying behind the brick wall… I walked through it. Stood next to them. Learned their work. Treated them like humans. A few weeks in, on my birthday, they brought me flowers. Then a few weeks later at the fall festival, they asked me to be on their team. They chose me. Not because I was HR. Because I was Kris. This episode is about what joy actually looks like when you stop performing it, and start living it.

A short tapping practice for the lifelong habit of putting everyone else first. We gently loosen the fear of disappointing people and make room for your own yes, and your own no.

Find a quiet place to settle, and take a slow breath. There is a part of you that learned long ago to keep everyone else happy, often at your own expense. We are going to gently thank that part, and begin to loosen its grip.

If this resonates and you would like to go deeper, I would love to partner with you and create your own customized journey. Just reach out - [email protected] or fjoin me for Koffee with Kris on Substack https://koffeewithkris.substack.com/

With so much warmth - Kris

Softening the Inner Critic

A tapping meditation to quiet the harsh inner voice and return to self-kindness. For the days when you are being hard on. yourself and holding yourself to impossible standards.

Permission to Set it Down: A Short Tapping Meditation

This is a short tapping practice for the woman who carries everything for everyone.

This is your moment to set the weight down and to be cared for rather than always

doing the caring and to remember that you matter too.

So if that resonates, this is for you.

So find a place where no one needs anything from you for the next few minutes.

If this resonates - I would love to know more!

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Permission to Put it Down

My thoughts on being the one who holds it all together, and what happens when you finally set some of it down.

And a short tapping exercise to help you begin to start putting it down as well.

If this resonates, I would love to hear more.

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How did I get here?

Occasionally I still do HR Consulting, and yesterday someone asked me "why is a licensed therapist on this call?" and it got me thinking about sharing my story...