Life Coaching with Christine Hassler

By Christine Hassler

Christine Hassler provides you with practical tools and spiritual principles to help you overcome whatever obstacles might be holding you back.

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Number 1: EP 552: Allowing Yourself to Receive Support Without Feeling Guilty with Maryam
What if receiving love and support feels almost as uncomfortable as the pain you're already carrying? In this deeply compassionate coaching session, Christine works with Maryam, an Iranian woman living in Norway who is struggling with grief, fear, and guilt as she witnesses tremendous suffering in her homeland while her family remains in Iran. At the same time, Maryam has built a beautiful life with a loving husband who consistently shows up for her. He listens, comforts her, walks with her, and gives her space to grieve. Yet instead of simply receiving his support, Maryam often finds herself apologizing for needing it. Underneath that guilt is a powerful question: If people I love are suffering, is it okay for me to feel safe, supported, and loved? Christine helps Maryam explore how trauma can condition the nervous system to expect chaos and suffering—making safety and love feel unfamiliar when they finally arrive. Sometimes, without realizing it, we may even add guilt to positive experiences as a way of recalibrating back toward what feels familiar. Together, they explore collective grief, survivor's guilt, highly sensitive nervous systems, receiving in relationships, and the difference between compassionately witnessing suffering and believing you must suffer alongside someone in order to love them. If you've ever felt guilty for having something another person doesn't, struggled to receive help without apologizing, or believed that your own happiness somehow minimizes someone else's pain, this conversation offers a powerful invitation to choose differently. Press play to discover why your suffering doesn't relieve someone else's—and how allowing yourself to receive love may actually give you greater capacity to offer love in return. Consider / Ask Yourself Do you feel guilty receiving support when other people are struggling? Is it easier for you to care for others than to allow someone to care for you? Do you unconsciously believe that suffering alongside someone proves how much you love them? When something good enters your life, do you find yourself waiting for something bad to happen or creating additional worry? Can you allow yourself to experience safety and love even when suffering exists elsewhere? Key Insights and A-Ha's Compassion for another person's suffering doesn't require adding unnecessary suffering to your own life. Trauma can orient the nervous system toward chaos, making love, safety, and support feel unfamiliar. Guilt can become a way of limiting how much goodness we're willing to receive. Receiving support doesn't make you less compassionate, committed, or connected to the people you care about. Rejecting support can also prevent someone you love from experiencing the gift and purpose of supporting you. Your suffering does not automatically lessen someone else's suffering. Receiving love can expand your capacity to give love. Sometimes healing means allowing your nervous system to recalibrate to safety instead of continually tethering itself to pain. How to Deepen the Work When you notice yourself apologizing for needing support, try replacing "I'm sorry" with "Thank you," "I love you," or "I'm grateful you're here with me." Notice what happens in your body when someone offers you love, comfort, or support without asking for anything in return. Remind yourself that it is safe to receive—even when other parts of your life or the world feel uncertain. Ask yourself whether your suffering is actually helping the situation you're concerned about. Give yourself permission to step away from collective pain at times and return to the reality of your own present moment. Practice receiving support without immediately feeling obligated to reciprocate it. Resources Mentioned in This Episode Featured Sponsor: Peluva Barefoot Shoes Christine shares more about Peluva, a five-toe minimalist shoe featuring five-toe articulation, which gives each toe its own space and supports more natural movement while walking or running. Use code CHRISTINE for 10% off your first pair. Shop Peluva through Christine's link Social Media + Resources Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment Christine Hassler Podcasts including Coaches Corner Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler Facebook — Christine Hassler Instagram — @ChristineHassler Instagram — @SacredUnionCouples Apply to be coached on the show: christinehassler.com/waitlist Courses, retreats, and more resources: christinehassler.com
August 26, 202630min
Number 2: EP 551: The Exhausting Drain of Feeling Responsible for Everyone You Love with Jessica
What happens when loving the people in your life starts to feel like being responsible for keeping everyone okay? In this deeply compassionate coaching session, Christine works with Jessica, who is navigating several major transitions at once: the end of a 10-year relationship with her best friend and business partner, building her own creative career, and watching her mother rapidly decline from Alzheimer's at a young age. As the oldest of four siblings, Jessica has spent much of her life carrying a strong sense of responsibility and loyalty toward the people she loves. When someone is hurting, her instinct is to step in, protect them, fix the problem, or even put her own life on hold to make sure they're okay. But that way of loving has become exhausting. Christine helps Jessica recognize the difference between holding space for someone and trying to protect them from pain. What Jessica has understood as love and compassion is sometimes an old survival pattern—one that tells her she can only feel safe when everyone around her is okay. Together, they explore over-responsibility, codependency, boundaries, grief, nervous system regulation, and the enormous amount of energy we can lose worrying about situations we simply cannot control. If you've ever been the strong one, the caretaker, the oldest daughter, the empath, or the person everyone depends on, this episode will help you recognize where love may have become tangled with worry, guilt, fear, and responsibility. Press play to discover how to love people deeply without carrying their pain—and how reclaiming that energy can help you finally have more capacity for your own life. Consider / Ask Yourself Do you feel responsible for making sure the people you love are okay? When someone you care about is suffering, do you immediately feel compelled to fix or rescue them? Have you confused worrying about someone with loving them? Are you spending so much energy managing other people's feelings that you have little left for your own needs? Can you allow someone you love to experience pain without believing it's your responsibility to make it better? Key Insights and A-Ha's Holding space for someone is not the same as protecting them from pain. Over-responsibility can become an identity and survival pattern, especially when it begins early in life. Love can become unconsciously paired with worry, caretaking, fear, and control. Worry can create the illusion that we're doing something when we're facing a situation we cannot control. Constantly putting yourself in someone else's shoes can cause you to carry suffering that may not actually be yours. When we focus primarily on other people's discomfort, we can lose touch with our own grief and needs. Trying to fix everything may provide short-term relief but can lead to long-term exhaustion and burnout. Healthy boundaries aren't about becoming cold or disconnected—they allow love and truth to exist together. How to Deepen the Work When you feel the urge to rescue someone, pause and notice what is happening in your body before taking action. Remind yourself: "Someone I love is going through something I cannot control." When an old caretaking pattern activates, meet it with compassion instead of criticizing yourself for falling into it again. Practice giving the people you love the dignity of experiencing and moving through their own feelings. Pay attention to the "energy leaks" created by worry, guilt, overthinking, and trying to control what isn't yours to control. Ask yourself what you need emotionally before automatically turning your attention toward everyone else. Resources Mentioned in This Episode One-on-One Coaching with Christine Christine has opened additional space in her calendar for private one-on-one coaching. She shares her continued passion for individualized coaching and supporting people through major transitions, healing, and personal growth. Learn more about Christine's process and apply at: christinehassler.com/coaching Featured Sponsor: Peluva Barefoot Shoes Christine shares more about Peluva, a five-toe minimalist shoe featuring five-toe articulation, allowing each toe to move independently and supporting more natural foot movement while walking or running. Use code CHRISTINE for 10% off your first pair. Shop Peluva through Christine's link Social Media + Resources Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment Christine Hassler Podcasts including Coaches Corner Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler Facebook — Christine Hassler Instagram — @ChristineHassler Instagram — @SacredUnionCouples Apply to be coached on the show: christinehassler.com/waitlist Courses, retreats, and more resources: christinehassler.com
August 19, 202636min
Number 3: EP 554: When Everything Feels Hard and Nothing Feels Good with Jeni
What do you do when everything feels hard, nothing feels particularly good, and you no longer trust that the things you've always wanted are actually going to happen? In this deeply reflective coaching session, Christine works with Jeni, who has spent the last three years navigating an overwhelming season of loss and change. A relationship ended. A new relationship that made her feel truly seen also ended. The job she loved came to an end. Her beloved cat was diagnosed with cancer. Her friend group disappeared. And at the same time, hormonal changes and perimenopause made it harder to simply push through life the way she always had. But as Christine explores Jeni's story, it becomes clear that this feeling didn't begin three years ago. Underneath the recent losses is a much older belief: that who Jeni naturally is isn't quite good enough. Growing up, Jeni learned that love, approval, and connection often depended on behaving the "right" way. Over time, people-pleasing and self-judgment disconnected her from her own inner compass. When you're continually taught—directly or indirectly—that your preferences, feelings, or choices are wrong, it becomes difficult to trust yourself at all. Christine helps Jeni recognize that what feels like being stuck may actually be an invitation to reclaim herself. Rather than searching for another external solution, this season may be asking her to stop relating to herself the way she was related to as a child. And that doesn't require one enormous breakthrough. Healing can happen through tiny moments of awareness, compassion, self-acceptance, and choosing differently. Sometimes the biggest transformation begins with simply noticing the pattern instead of automatically believing it. If life has felt gray lately, if you've lost faith in what you once wanted, or if you're exhausted from trying to fix yourself, this episode offers a compassionate reminder that you don't have to figure everything out today. Press play to explore how small, consistent acts of self-trust and self-love can begin reconnecting you with the person you've always been underneath the protective patterns. Consider / Ask Yourself Does life feel harder or "grayer" than it used to? Did you grow up believing you needed to behave a certain way to receive love, approval, or acceptance? Do you struggle to trust your own desires, opinions, or decisions? Are you highly critical of yourself because you learned early that who you naturally were wasn't enough? Are you waiting for a massive breakthrough instead of acknowledging the smaller steps you're already taking? Key Insights and A-Ha's Major seasons of loss can reveal patterns and wounds that have been operating underneath the surface for years. People-pleasing can disconnect us from our own inner compass and make it difficult to know or trust what we truly want. When children don't feel fully accepted, they may conclude that something is wrong with them rather than recognizing the limitations of their caregivers. Constant self-judgment can develop from trying to figure out how to become "good enough" to receive love and validation. What feels like depression or emotional grayness can sometimes include years of repressed feelings and suppressed self-expression. Protective patterns may resist healing because familiar discomfort can feel safer than an unknown future. Healing doesn't require a dramatic breakthrough. Small moments of awareness and safety matter. Reparenting means choosing not to continue relating to yourself in the same ways you were related to as a child. Acceptance and forward movement can coexist: you can accept where you are while still committing to the next step. How to Deepen the Work Notice when you're criticizing yourself without immediately trying to stop the criticism. Begin simply with: "I'm criticizing myself right now." Once that awareness becomes easier, try adding: "I forgive myself for criticizing myself." Eventually, ask: "What else could I tell myself right now?" Write your own "parenting manual" for yourself. How do you want to respond when you're scared, triggered, disappointed, or judging yourself? When fear arises during deeper emotional work, consider whether the fear actually means "stop" or whether it's a protective part responding to something unfamiliar. Celebrate small moments when you stay present with a difficult emotion instead of expecting yourself to have a massive breakthrough. Practice giving yourself a little more love, understanding, compassion, and patience today than you did yesterday. Resources Mentioned in This Episode One-on-One Coaching with Christine Christine has opened her roster to additional private coaching clients. If you're navigating a season where everything feels difficult, you're experiencing significant loss or transition, or you're ready to explore deeper patterns with personalized support, you can learn more about working directly with Christine. Learn more about one-on-one coaching with Christine Featured Sponsor: Peluva Barefoot Shoes Christine shares more about Peluva, a five-toe minimalist shoe featuring individual toe articulation designed to support more natural movement and a barefoot-style experience. Use code CHRISTINE for 10% off your first pair. Shop Peluva through Christine's link Social Media + Resources Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment Christine Hassler Podcasts including Coaches Corner Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler Facebook — Christine Hassler Instagram — @ChristineHassler Instagram — @SacredUnionCouples Apply to be coached on the show Courses, retreats, and more resources
September 09, 202637min
Number 4: CC: Why Moms Are Chronically Stressed — and How to Stop Overfunctioning with Sarah Tacy
Sarah Tacy Tangredi is a nervous system specialist and somatic guide for moms who are done with burnout and overfunctioning. She helps clients move from urgency to choice, from survival patterns to deep self-trust, and into a more human pace where vitality, clarity, and mystery can coexist. Her work blends neuroscience, somatic healing, and sacred strategy to support women in reclaiming their wholeness. She's the creator of Resourced a 12 Week nervous system repatterning journey, and host of the Threshold Moments podcast, known for her grounded presence and ability to hold space for what's real, raw, and ready to rise. Sarah is an evolving mother, wife, and friend. She believes that the body is always speaking to us, and if we can create space and support on as many dimensions as possible, repair and transformation will unfold. Join her for a free online event on Sept 10th called "Opting Out of Urgency" that will help you move from chronic over-responsibility and rush to choice and ease. Register here: christinehassler.com/workshop
August 29, 202653min
Number 5: CC: On our Knees with Regena Thomashauer
Regena Thomashauer — better known as Mama Gena — is a bestselling author, teacher, feminist icon, and founder of the School of Womanly Arts, which she started in her living room in 1998 and has since grown into a global movement. For more than three decades, Regena has helped women reconnect to the parts of themselves we've been taught to suppress — our bodies, our desires, our emotions, and our pleasure. At the heart of her work is the belief that pleasure is a form of power, and that when a woman is fully connected to herself and what she wants, it changes how she moves through every area of her life. She is the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Pussy: A Reclamation, and her work has reached hundreds of thousands of women around the world. Her teachings are an invitation for women to reclaim their feminine power, raise their standards, and live with more truth, turn-on, and freedom. Today we talk about her newest book: On Our Knees which offers a new map for navigating heartbreak, uncertainty, loss, and reinvention.
August 22, 202649min