Living the Questions with Courtney Koester

What does it mean to share vulnerably without oversharing? In this solo episode, I explore the tender discernment between fear-based withholding and wise self-protection. After scrapping a previous recording, I sit down in real time to reflect on what it means to live the questions when some of them still feel too raw to name aloud. With gentle honesty, I unpack the difference between boundaries that isolate and boundaries that support, the nervous system cues that guide our discernment, and the invitation to remain open while also honoring what is still forming within. If you’ve ever struggled with when (and/or how) to share something tender, this one’s for you.

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠⁠⁠

Resources:

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Podcast IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Business IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Coaching Offerings: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠⁠⁠

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com⁠⁠⁠⁠

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠⁠⁠⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠⁠⁠⁠




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney⁠⁠⁠




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

What does it mean to be with yourself so fully that it opens a door to something greater? In this final guest episode of Season One, I share a deeply personal and expansive conversation with my somatic coach, Holly Lowery-Davis. Together, we explore how cultivating a relationship with the Self — through the body, through presence, through emotion — can become the very pathway back to something beyond us: Spirit, Nature, Meaning, Mystery. Holly shares the living question at the heart of her work: How do we honor the stories of our pain without becoming them — and what becomes possible when we do? This is a tender invitation into the slow, sacred work of becoming — with ourselves, and with something greater.

Holly Lowery-Davis is a certified somatic practitioner, group facilitator and educator with 7+ years of professional experience in the mental health sector. Holly offers body oriented one-on-one support to help clients to process their feelings more fully, gently heal unresolved trauma and chronic stress responses, learn to support their nervous system, and develop more presence, agency and consciousness. Prior to moving into private practice, Holly spent 6 years working for Ophelia's Place, an eating disorder non-profit, where she oversaw the development and implementation of educational and community support programming. It was this work with the eating disorder community made it clear how critical it is to bring an embodied framework to healing, and ultimately led Holly to re-certifying as a somatic practitioner. Holly has worked with dozens of 1:1 clients, held over 150 support groups, and led numerous professional presentations and workshops to both clinical providers and individuals interested in mental health, the nervous system, eating disorders and embodied healing.

Connect with Holly:

• Holly’s IG: https://www.instagram.com/hollylowerydavis/
• Holly’s Podcast: https://somaticcoaching.substack.com/podcast
• Holly’s Website / 1:1 Somatic Support: https://www.somacoachholly.com/
• Holly’s Free Resource | Feel Your Feelings Toolkit: https://www.somacoachholly.com/feelings-toolkit

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions

✨ Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠⁠

• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney

• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: 

Some experiences are deeply personal, yet not meant to be carried in isolation. In this episode, I explore the tender space between needing others and recognizing that some emotional journeys can only be walked from within. This conversation wrestles with the complexity of grief, overwhelm, and self-protection, while gently inviting compassionate curiosity as a pathway back to connection. Through themes of vulnerability, nervous system regulation, and parts work, this episode holds space for the paradox that while no one can walk your path for you, you don’t have to walk it alone.

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠⁠⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠⁠⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠⁠

Resources:

• Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com⁠⁠⁠
• Podcast IG: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast⁠⁠⁠
• Business IG: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired⁠⁠⁠
• Coaching Offerings: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠⁠

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at ⁠⁠⁠https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com⁠⁠⁠

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠⁠⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠⁠⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠⁠⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠⁠⁠




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney⁠⁠




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: ⁠⁠⁠https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

Spaciousness has long been a guiding word in my life — but I’ve come to realize that truly living it is different from simply offering it to others. In this solo reflection, I explore what it means to create space in our lives — not as avoidance or burnout-fueled withdrawal, but as a life-giving, grounding practice of rehumanization. Together, we explore the difference between spaciousness that reconnects and survival-driven distance, and how this theme weaves into nervous system care, seasonal rhythms, and the ongoing practice of embodying what we teach. This episode is an invitation to reclaim spaciousness as a living practice — one that nourishes your nervous system, restores your clarity, and brings you into right relationship with your own capacity. Not every kind of space is life-giving. But the space that brings you back to yourself? That kind of space can change everything.

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠

Resources:

• Website: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com⁠⁠
• Podcast IG: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast⁠⁠
• Business IG: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired⁠⁠
• Coaching Offerings: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at ⁠⁠https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com⁠⁠

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠⁠




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney⁠




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: ⁠⁠https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

What does it really mean to be in right relationship with your power? In this expansive and heartfelt conversation, Althea Seloover invites us into the depths of that question, offering wisdom rooted in lived experience, recovery, and deep care for humanity. We explore how power can be reclaimed through rest, how self-care becomes a radical act of resistance, and what it means to move at a human pace in a world that constantly demands more. From redefining words like “work,” “sin,” and “justice” to mapping the internal landscapes of burnout, healing, and congruence, Althea’s insights challenge and nourish. This is a conversation about capacity, compassion, and choosing presence over performance — for yourself, for others, and for the collective. If you're longing for clarity, groundedness, and/or a deeper sense of integrity in how you live and lead, this episode is a soulful companion.

Althea Riana Olds Seloover is a poet, a relational map-maker, a story teller, an advocate & abolitionist, an investigator, a teacher, an entrepreneur, a creative thinker, a hope holder, a griever, a dreamer, and a friend. She does prisoner liberation, self-parenting & life history investigation work in the world. You can find her on Instagram @altheais, on Substack altheaspinningon.substack.com, at disobedientgoods.com slinging stickers, and locally in Eugene, Oregon.

Connect with Althea:

• Althea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/altheais/
• Althea’s Substack: https://altheaspinningon.substack.com/
• Althea’s Website: https://disobedientgoods.com/

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠⁠




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: ⁠⁠https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

Some conversations meander in the most magical ways, and this one is a celebration of cosmic timing, personal joy, and the sacredness of embracing what makes us feel most alive. I reflect on the significance of things like numbers — not just as dates or symbols, but as threads of connection woven through family, memory, and meaning. From repeating numbers to astrology, from childhood delight to spiritual inquiry, I explore what it means to honor joy, even when it’s misunderstood, and to build a relationship with uncertainty that invites wonder instead of fear. This episode gently asks: Can we let ourselves play, be different, and trust in the mystery?

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠

Resources:

• Website: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com⁠
• Podcast IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast⁠
• Business IG: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired⁠
• Coaching Offerings: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at ⁠https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com⁠

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at ⁠www.disobedientgoods.com⁠ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at ⁠https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER⁠




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at ⁠https://www.livingtea.net/courtney




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: ⁠https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

What if taking good care of yourself isn’t selfish — but the very foundation of how you care for others? This episode explores the tender, tangled process of shifting out of over-functioning, especially when people-pleasing patterns run deep. I reflect on the internal tug-of-war between the fear of being “too much” or “not enough” and the slow, sacred work of learning what true boundaries, congruent giving, and right relationship with self can look like. If you’ve ever struggled with guilt around saying no, or felt overwhelmed by nuance when all you want is clarity, this conversation is an honest and compassionate space to land.

Christabel Mintah-Galloway, RN, BSN's IG Posts I reference:

• "Put Your Mask On First" Is Individualism, Not Universal Truth: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DGlmPrxR_pz/?igsh=OXlhc3FnamFwOWw3⁠
• The West Teaches "You Can't Pour From An Empty Cup." But Collective Societies Say: "If Your Cup Has Even A Little, You Share.": ⁠https://www.instagram.com/p/DGdvIy3Om7s/?igsh=ZnlzZHBxeW5naG9h⁠

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your question through thoughtful conversation: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠

Resources:

• Website: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com
• Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast
• Business IG: https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired
• Coaching Offerings: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at www.disobedientgoods.com and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at https://www.livingtea.net/courtney




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

What if your personal wellness is intertwined with the well-being of the world around you? Nisha Mody joins for a thought-provoking conversation on the complexities of personal wellness, self-trust, and the interconnectedness of individual and collective care. Nisha reflects on the tension between privilege and responsibility, questioning how her own well-being can exist in a world filled with injustice and violence. Through themes of grief, growth, and healing, she examines how stepping into personal power — while remaining present and self-compassionate — can be an act of service to the greater whole. From navigating discomfort and discernment to redefining wellness beyond commodification, this episode invites us to consider how our own healing contributes to the world around us.

Nisha Mody (she/her) is a Life Coach for Liberatory Dreamers. She works with creatives, anticapitalists, and helpers who struggle with overachieving, people pleasing, and procrastinating about getting their amazing work out into the world because of the very systems they want to subvert (which leaves them exhausted and wondering how to meet their own needs). Nisha has had six (6!) careers, so she is an expert at trying to "figure it out"! She values growth, relationship, and liberation, and she wants YOU to know what you value so you can have relationships that sustain you, not drain you (including the relationship you have with yourself). Nisha is also a writer currently working on a memoir about her divorce and mother wound.

Connect with Nisha:

• Nisha’s Website: http://www.nishaland.com/
• Nisha’s IG: http://www.instagram.com/healinghypegirl
• Nisha’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@healinghypegirl
• Nisha’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/modynisha/
• Nisha’s Substack: https://nisha.substack.com/
• Nisha's Resources: ⁠Trauma-Informed & Relational Care for Libraries Course⁠: http://www.traumainformedlibraries.com/ + ⁠7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World⁠: https://nishamody.myflodesk.com/7tools

Mentioned In Episode:

• Who Is Wellness For by Fariha Róisín: https://bookshop.org/a/7165/9780063077089

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — A space to live your questions through thoughtful conversation: ⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review!

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at www.disobedientgoods.com and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER

• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at https://www.livingtea.net/courtney




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

The beauty and challenge of nuance is that it offers both freedom and overwhelm — especially for those prone to overthinking. In this episode, I explore how my deep love for perspectives, meaning-making, and endless exploration sometimes becomes a source of anxiety rather than clarity. What happens when nuance feels more constricting than expansive? How do we honor where we truly are instead of where we think we should be? Through personal reflection, I unpack the delicate balance of discernment, self-trust, and the timing of our own learning, revealing insights that may resonate with anyone navigating the complexity of their own decisions.

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• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at http://www.disobedientgoods.com/ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

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• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at https://www.livingtea.net/courtney

• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo

What if the way you hear yourself isn’t the truth, but a distortion shaped by old insecurities? Editing the first few episodes of this podcast invited me to listen to my own voice over and over again and what I noticed was a familiar yet eye-opening pattern — the initial playback was clouded by self-criticism, a harsh internal voice telling me I didn’t make sense. But something shifted on the second and third listens. Without realizing it, the distortion dissolved, and I could hear myself differently, with more clarity and grace. This episode explores that experience — how insecurity acts like a filter, shaping our perception, and what happens when we learn to step outside of it. What if your voice is clearer, stronger, and more meaningful than your inner critic would have you to believe?

Ready to take these conversations deeper?

• Share Your Voice — Leave a voice message with a question you’re living into: ⁠⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/LivingTheQuestions⁠⁠
• Book a 1:1 Conversation Session — Like your own personal episode, these sessions are a space to live your questions through thoughtful conversation: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/conversation-sessions⁠⁠
• Rehumanizing YOU Coaching — This is a space for deep inquiry and integration, where your questions become the path. If you’re ready to untangle old patterns and step into a more aligned, embodied way of being, explore more here: ⁠⁠https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings⁠⁠

Resources:

• Website: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com
• Podcast IG: https://www.instagram.com/livingthequestionspodcast
• Business IG: https://www.instagram.com/ckoesterinspired
• Coaching Offerings: https://www.ckoesterinspired.com/coaching-offerings

Enjoyed the episode? Don’t forget to subscribe and leave a review! You can also connect with us on Instagram @livingthequestionspodcast or join our community group at https://livingthequestionspodcast.substack.com

Things I Genuinely Love — Affiliate & Community Spotlights:

• ✨ Disobedient Goods & Apparel: offers judgment-free sticker tools for self-guided practice, discovery, and mapping — designed to spark curiosity, connection, and a deeper understanding of the paths we walk. Explore the collection at http://www.disobedientgoods.com/ and use code LIVINGTHEQUESTIONS15 for 15% off your entire order.

• ❤️ Nisha Mody Coaching: Nisha provides short- and long-term coaching to help people who were taught to meet everyone else’s needs except their own to stop keeping themselves small (and be in their fullest expression!) If you’ve never coached with Nisha, email her at ⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠, mention what you loved about this episode, and she’ll give you a free coaching session until June 24, 2025.

• 🤍 FOND Bone Broth: my personal FAVORITE for nourishing, gut-loving bone broth that’s as comforting as it is healing! Use code: COURTNEY-KOESTER for 10% off at https://fondbonebroth.com/COURTNEY-KOESTER




• ☕️ Living Tea: my go-to source for wild and organic Teas, along with amazing Tea education to deepen your practice! Use code: CKOESTERINSPIRED for 15% off at https://www.livingtea.net/courtney




• ⭕️ Circle Community: A beautiful, all-in-one location for your community to gather, remain connected, attend workshops, join memberships, etc. Love an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-organize digital community space. Explore more here: https://try.circle.so/8amtv3uilqpo