The Better Life Project™

By Kelsey Van Kirk

Education Religion & Spirituality Christianity

What's The Better Life Project™ about?

A personal growth podcast for women who want to live well. In each weekly episode you’ll find loads of inspiration, encouragement, and practical ideas to help you change every area of your life for the better. For additional content and resources visit kelseyvankirk.com. Have a question or topic you'd love to see covered on the show? Email us at [email protected]!

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How to Have Better Periods ...

02.16.2022

In this episode I'm joined by Holistic Hormone Coach, Leisha Drews, who is sharing loads of wisdom and practical advice to help you have better periods, increase your energy, and generally start feeling better as a woman. Show Highlights: The ...

The Better Life Project™ episodes:

02.16.2022 How to Have Better Periods with Leisha Drews, FDN-P In this episode I'm joined by Holistic Hormone Coach, Leisha Drews, who is sharing loads of wisdom and practical advice to help you have better periods, increase your energy, and generally start feeling better as a woman. Show Highlights: The ...
01.12.2022 The Secret to Staying Motivated is Simpler Than You Think Having goals, intentions and things we want to work toward is great...but what do we do when life happens and our motivation to actually follow through runs out? In this episode I'm sharing a few simple "secrets" to keeping yourself ...
01.05.2022 5 Ways to Start the New Year Well In this first episode of the New Year I'm sharing a handful of practical tips to help you slow down, take a deep breath, release any pressure you might be feeling, and recenter yourself in order to move forward with ...
12.08.2021 Things That Have Changed My Life in 2021 We're just a few weeks away from a brand new year, and in this episode I'm sharing a handful of things that have made a massive impact in my life over the past year in the hopes that it will ...
12.01.2021 A Guide to Setting Healthy Boundaries During the Holidays If you’re anything like me, setting, communicating, and upholding healthy boundaries can feel really confusing, daunting and uncomfortable, especially if you don’t have much experience doing it. But having good boundaries in place is so important for the sake of ...
11.24.2021 A Simple Trick for Staying Healthy Through the Holidays (& Beyond!) In today’s episode I’m sharing a simple trick I use to make it dead simple to consistently make healthy choices, plus a handful of practical ideas to help you prioritize getting enough sleep, staying active, nourishing yourself well, and managing ...
11.17.2021 How to Keep the Holidays Simple & Stress-Free In this episode I’m breaking down some really practical things you can do to simplify the holidays this year, focus on what matters most, and cultivate an attitude of peace, gratitude and joy. For show notes, links, resources + more ...
11.10.2021 An Invitation to Slow Down & Simplify This Season For so many of us this time of year comes with a lot of extra stress and pressure to speed up, hustle, overcommit, overspend, and overwork trying to be, do and keep up with all the things. But girl, it ...
09.22.2021 How to Take Ownership of Your Life & Clear Out the Clutter with Allie Casazza In this episode I'm joined by my friend Allie Casazza, Host of The Purpose Show and author of Declutter Like a Mother, for a crazy inspiring conversation about how to take radical ownership of your life and start making empowered ...
08.11.2021 How to Eat Healthy with Kids Eating healthy can often feel like an uphill battle in our modern world, and eating healthy with kids can feel even more difficult. In this episode I'm sharing all my best tips, practices and advice to help you simplify healthy ...
08.04.2021 BEST OF: Dealing with Anger as a Wife & Mom with Natalie Hixson While we're taking a short summer break, we hope you'll enjoy revisiting some of our most popular past episodes of the show! In this episode I’m joined by my amazing friend and certified professional life coach Natalie Hixson, to have ...
07.28.2021 BEST OF: What to Do When You Feel Overwhelmed While we're taking a short summer break, we hope you'll enjoy revisiting some of our most popular past episodes of the show! In this episode we’re going to talk about what to do when you feel that familiar sense of ...
07.14.2021 BEST OF: Effective, Compassionate Discipline in Parenting with Wendy Snyder While we're taking a short summer break, we hope you'll enjoy revisiting some of our most popular past episodes of the show! In this episode I’m joined by positive parenting educator, Wendy Snyder, for an incredible conversation about how we ...
07.08.2021 BEST OF: Why You Need to Press Pause in Your Life While we're taking a short summer break, we hope you'll enjoy revisiting some of our most popular past episodes of the show! In this episode we're going to talk about the importance of learning to press "pause" in our lives ...
06.30.2021 A Mid-Year Check In: Let's Revisit Your 2021 Goals & Intentions Can you believe 2021 is already halfway over?! I am a BIG believer in taking time out to regularly review your goals and intentions and the progress you have (or haven’t) made on them if you’re serious about actually making ...
06.23.2021 How to Recognize, Overcome & Prevent Burnout In this episode we’re going to deep dive on the subject of burnout, and specifically talk about what exactly it is, how to recognize it (in yourself and others), how to recover from it, and how to prevent it from ...
06.16.2021 How to Quickly Get Your Life Back on Track In today’s episode I’m going to share some practical advice for getting your life back to “normal” after things like vacation, hosting company, celebrating holidays, dealing with unexpected illness, loss or burnout. Show notes for this episode can be found ...
06.02.2021 How to Create a Weekly Self Care Ritual We all know self care is important, but the question on everyone's minds is HOW do we actually make it happen while juggling everything else on our plates? In this episode I'm going to teach you how to simplify making ...
05.19.2021 How I've Changed & Healed My Relationship with Myself The past few years have been a crazy, wild ride, and it seemed only fitting to celebrate our 100th episode by exploring some of the growth, change and healing that’s taken place in my life in the hopes that it ...
04.21.2021 Cycle Syncing for Better Health, Relationships & Productivity with Leisha Drews, RN, FDNP Ever feel like your life is ruled by your hormones and you’re never quite sure what you’re gonna get each day? Here’s the deal: technically speaking, your life is ruled by your hormones, which naturally fluctuate throughout your monthly cycle ...
04.14.2021 How to Get Unstuck & Change Your Life for the Better In this episode we're going to chat about the ONE thing you need to do to get yourself unstuck and start changing your life for the better. Show notes for this episode can be found at kelseyvankirk.com/podcast/98.
03.31.2021 The Secret to Making the Most of Your Time How we spend our time is ultimately how we spend our lives. So how can we make sure we’re making the most of our time each day? In our culture, productivity is often associated with getting as much done as ...
03.24.2021 Self-Soothing Strategies for Dealing with Stress & Anxiety Stress and anxiety are two things we ALL have to deal with on a regular basis. The problem is, most of us never learned how to cope with stress in a healthy, positive way. Instead, in an effort to self-soothe, ...
03.17.2021 Things That Make My Life Easier & Better (Part II) Are you one of those people who LOVES to hear what other people are loving, whether it’s a phone app, a beauty tool, a recipe, a pair of jeans, or a productivity hack?! In this fun little episode I'm spilling ...
03.10.2021 Things That Make My Life Easier & Better (Part I) Are you one of those people who LOVES to hear what other people are loving, whether it’s a phone app, a beauty tool, a recipe, a pair of jeans, or a productivity hack?! In this fun little episode I'm spilling ...
02.24.2021 How to Fight for Your Marriage When You Feel Like Giving Up Over the past two years my husband and I have been walking through the fight of our lives in our marriage, and this month we are humbled and grateful to be celebrating our 12th wedding anniversary together. It's taken a ...
02.10.2021 Practical Tips to Prepare for a Purposeful & Productive Week Taking time to plan and prepare for the week before it begins has totally changed my family's life (and stress levels!) It's allowed us to be more peaceful, purposeful, and productive instead of constantly feeling frustrated and overwhelmed because we're ...
02.03.2021 The Secret to Living a Balanced Life Between taking care of ourselves, our families, our homes, our relationships, our careers, our finances, and beyond there’s a LOT we’re all trying to juggle. The question on everyone's mind? "How do we balance it all?!" In this episode we're ...
01.27.2021 Cultivating an Intentional Weekly Sabbath Practice Our family’s weekly Sabbath practice has changed our lives in SO many good ways over the years, and in this episode I’m taking you behind the scenes to give you a better understanding of how this life-giving rhythm could do ...
01.19.2021 How to Start (& Stick) to New Rhythms & Routines Building rhythms and routines into our lives is on of the BEST ways to make what matters happen, as consistently and easily as possible. In this episode we're going to talk about how to start (and stick to) rhythms and ...
01.12.2021 Redefining What it Means to Live Your Best Life There’s a lot of pressure today to be better and do better (especially at the beginning of a new year!) And honestly? It can get exhausting and overwhelming FAST. In this episode I’m going to challenge us to re-think and ...
01.05.2021 The BEST Way to Start a New Year A new year is the perfect time for a fresh start (and this year, we all need one more than ever!) In this episode I'm going to walk you through my FAVORITE way to start fresh in a new year ...
12.22.2020 How to Stay Present During the Holidays The holidays can already be a really stressful and overwhelming time, and the added hardships of this year have only increased that for a lot of people. The good news is: you can DO something to make it better! In ...
12.15.2020 What Can You Let Go Of? Feeling overwhelmed with Christmas right around the corner? Tune in for an encouraging pep talk that will help you SIMPLIFY and release some of that weight and stress you're feeling right now. Show notes for this episode can be found ...
12.08.2020 Stop Judging Your Feelings In this episode we're going to talk about why we all need to STOP judging our feelings, and instead take ownership of figuring out what they're trying to tell us and how we need to respond. Are you ready to ...
12.01.2020 How to Make Your Home a Peaceful Haven Does your home ever feel more like an overwhelming, chaotic hot mess express, than the restful, peaceful haven you want for yourself and your family? In this episode I'm sharing some super practical things you can do to take action ...
11.24.2020 Simple Daily Practices That Will Change Your Life Question: are the habits and practices that make up your daily life bringing you closer to or further away from being the kind of person you want to be, and living the kind of life you want to live? In ...
11.17.2020 Lessons Learned Living Through a Pandemic This year life turned completely upside down, forcing every single one of us to learn, grow, and adapt in ways we weren't expecting. There's been lots of hard, but I think we've all learned a lot too. In this episode ...
06.02.2020 Effective, Compassionate Discipline in Parenting with Wendy Snyder In this episode I’m joined by my incredible friend and positive parenting educator, Wendy Snyder, to explore why traditional discipline doesn’t really work, the long-term harm it can actually cause, and some practical ways we can shift our approach to ...
05.19.2020 What You REALLY Need to Know About Hormone Health with Leisha Drews, RN, FDN In this episode I’m joined by Leisha Drews, RN, FDN to talk all about what exactly hormones are and why they matter, how to know when things might be out of whack, and how to better understand, support and heal ...
05.12.2020 How to Deal with Times of Uncertainty Life is filled with uncertainty, and right now as we all figure out how to navigate our way through the COVID-19 pandemic, that sense of uncertainty is at an all-time high. But no matter how hopeless or helpless you might ...
05.05.2020 The Motherhood Pep Talk You NEED to Hear with Val Woerner There's no getting around it: motherhood is HARD. But so often we make it harder on ourselves than it needs to be! It's is a calling that deserves us showing up with everything we've got (which means lots of grace, ...
04.28.2020 The Power of Making a JOY List Once you become more aware of what bring you joy, you can start being intentional about doing or noticing those thing more often. In this episode you're going to learn how to make your own joy list and start enjoying ...
04.21.2020 Simple Tips to Support Your Mental Health with Jennifer Blossom In this episode I’m chatting with my friend Jennifer Blossom, Founder of Blossoming Mommy & Baby, all about why investing in our mental health is SO important, and sharing some practical tips to help you better deal with stress, anxiety, ...
04.14.2020 How to Mindfully Deal with Difficult Emotions Every day we encounter stressors that can lead to feeling some pretty uncomfortable emotions. While we can’t control the emotions we experience, we can control our responses to them. In this episode we’re going to explore some practical things we ...
04.07.2020 How to Dig Deeper in Your Faith with Phylicia Masonheimer In this episode I’m joined by my friend, author, speaker and bible teacher Phylicia Masonheimer for an incredible conversation all about how to dig deeper in our faith, discern truth in a culture of confusion, and live it all out ...
03.31.2020 Choosing Peace in the Midst of Chaos With all the craziness going on in the world around us, there’s a lot that could be causing you to feel stressed, fearful, worried or anxious. But I'm here to remind you that you get to choose whether you will ...
03.24.2020 How to Manage Life, Kids & Work from Home (Without Going Crazy!) Struggling to adjust to all the changes and manage all the things from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? In this episode I'm sharing some hope, encouragement and super practical tips to help you make it all work ...
03.17.2020 How the Enneagram Can Change Your Life with Beth McCord In this episode I’m joined by Beth McCord, founder of Your Enneagram Coach, for a conversation all about what the Enneagram personality system is, and how understanding it through the lens of the gospel can completely transform your life and ...
03.10.2020 Practical Tips for a Better Prayer Life Want to get more intentional in your prayer life? In this episode I'm sharing a quick rundown of why prayer matters, some tips to help you know how to pray, and ideas to help you actually make it happen amidst ...

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