Love was never meant to cost you yourself.

In this episode of The Practical Mystic, Nicki explores how many of us confuse love with self-sacrifice, over-giving and carrying everyone else's emotional load.

Together, you'll explore:

• Why boundaries are an expression of love

• The difference between an open heart and an over-open heart

• Why receiving love can feel uncomfortable

• The hidden cost of self-abandonment

• How to let love flow both ways

A heart-led life isn't about giving more.

It's about remembering that you are worthy of receiving the same love you give so freely to others.

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The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

Confidence isn't built before you take action. It's built because you do.

In this episode of The Practical Mystic, Nicki explores why confidence isn't the real issue... Self-trust is.

If you've been second-guessing yourself, waiting until you feel more healed, more certain, or more ready before taking the next step, this conversation offers a different perspective.

You'll explore:

• Why confidence follows action, not the other way around.
• The difference between intuition and fear.
• Why discomfort is often part of transformation.
• How to stop abandoning yourself when life feels uncertain.
• What it really means to trust the wobble.

If you've been searching for certainty before moving forward, this episode is an invitation to trust yourself instead.

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🎙 About The Practical Mystic

The Practical Mystic is a podcast for people seeking a deeper connection with themselves through practical spirituality, personal growth, nervous system regulation, intuition and everyday life.

Hosted by kinesiologist, intuitive and teacher Nicki Kuurman, each episode blends grounded wisdom with soulful insight to help you remember who you are and create meaningful change from the inside out.

Have you ever reached a point where your life looks good on paper... but something still feels missing?

In this episode of The Practical Mystic, Nicki explores why so many women lose touch with their joy, passion, and desire - not because they're broken, but because years of people-pleasing, conditioning, and putting everyone else first can slowly disconnect them from themselves.

Sharing her own story of living in what she calls "the dead zone," Nicki unpacks the hidden cost of abandoning your own desires, why intuition often feels difficult to hear, and how reconnecting with your body and your inner knowing can bring you back to a life that feels truly alive.

If you've been feeling flat, uninspired, disconnected, or wondering where your spark has gone, this episode offers a compassionate invitation to remember what matters most.

Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: https://www.nickikuurman.com

✨ Soul Guidance Sessions: https://www.nickikuurman.com/soul-guidance

🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst

📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

Do you ever notice how certainty can feel like safety — even when it's keeping you stuck in something you don't actually want?

In this episode, Nicki explores the base chakra as the true foundation of your stability and nervous system regulation, and why chasing certainty — even uncomfortable, familiar certainty — can quietly trap you in old patterns.

She unpacks why knowing what to do isn't the same as doing it, and how to rebuild trust with yourself one small, foundational step at a time.

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The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

What if your anxiety is actually trying to protect you?

In this episode of The Practical Mystic, Nicki explores the earth star chakra and why grounding — not more healing, more manifesting, or more self-improvement — is the essential first step back into your body, your power, and your presence.

Modern life pulls us out of our bodies and into our heads, leaving us anxious, overwhelmed, and disconnected from our own power. Nicki shares why anxiety often shows up as a protective mechanism, how the breath is a gateway back into presence, and why grounded spirituality looks like stillness and calm rather than chasing signs and synchronicities.

If you've ever felt like you're only 20% dialed into your own life, this episode will help you find your way back.

Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: https://www.nickikuurman.com

✨ Soul Guidance Sessions: https://www.nickikuurman.com/soul-guidance

🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst

📱 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

What if you're not broken... And never were?

In this episode, Nicki shares a profound realisation sparked by a single line from Michelangelo: "I didn't carve the David. I just carved away everything that wasn't David."

What followed was a complete shift in how she sees growth, healing, and self-worth.

This episode isn't about becoming someone new. It's about uncovering who you've always been, beneath the self-doubt, the rules, the conditioning, and the lies you've been living as truth.

Nicki explores how the stone we're trapped in is made of societal expectations, family beliefs, and the quiet but crushing weight of not-enoughness, and how the path forward isn't more self-improvement, but honest, courageous self-revelation.

If you've ever felt like something is missing in you, or like you need to be someone different to finally be yourself, this episode is the permission slip you didn't know you needed.

Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com⁠

✨ Soul Guidance Sessions: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/soul-guidance⁠

🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst⁠

📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman⁠

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

You don't manifest what you want. You manifest what you're available for.

In this episode of The Practical Mystic, Nicki explores the hidden reason your desires aren't showing up. Not because you don't want them badly enough, but because manifestation is less about desire and more about what you're available to receive.

Using stories of a dream car, a house, lottery tickets, and the subtle ways we sabotage our own success, Nicki unpacks how old beliefs, fears, and unconscious patterns can keep us tuned to the same reality, even when we're trying to create something new.

If you've ever wondered why opportunities, abundance, relationships, or success seem just out of reach, this episode offers a fresh perspective on manifestation, frequency, and alignment.

You'll discover:
• Why wanting something isn't enough
• How jealousy can reveal what's possible for you
• The hidden ways we block what we desire
• Why manifestation requires action, not just intention
• What it means to become available to receive

The Hidden Reason Your Desires Aren't Showing Up might not be what you think.

✨ Shift your state. Change your story.

Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com⁠

✨ Soul Guidance Sessions: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/soul-guidance⁠

🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst⁠

📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman⁠

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

You might think your problem is overthinking. You might even be told you analyse too much.

But what if the real issue isn't the thinking at all... It's what you're actually searching for?

In this episode, Nicki unpacks the Seeker pattern: the stress response that drives intelligent, deep-thinking women into a loop of research, analysis, and information-seeking, mistaking the hunt for certainty as a search for clarity.

She explores why more information often creates more confusion, how the seeking loop connects to burnout, and what it really means to trust yourself when the answers won't come.

If you're constantly on the verge of figuring it out but never quite getting there... this one's for you.

About Nicki Kuurman: Nicki is a kinesiologist, energetic healer and spiritual coach, helping women regulate their nervous system, reclaim self-trust, and lead from within. The Practical Mystic is grounded spiritual wisdom for women who are done giving their power away and ready to come back to themselves.

Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com⁠

✨ Soul Guidance Sessions: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/soul-guidance⁠

🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst⁠

📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman⁠

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

Fear doesn't always show up dramatically.

More often it creeps in quietly — shrinking your decisions, dimming your confidence, and slowly making your world smaller without you even noticing.In this episode, Nicki shares her own story of how one comment destroyed nearly a decade of work, the grief and resentment that followed, and the long road back to herself.

She unpacks the difference between fear-based decisions and soul-led ones, why courage isn't the absence of fear, and what it really means to turn inward when the world feels loud and uncertain.

If you've been playing it safe, staying hidden, or waiting until you feel "ready" — this one's for you.

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🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com⁠

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🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst⁠

📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman⁠

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.

What if confidence wasn’t something you had to earn but something you already are?

In this episode, Nicki Kuurman breaks down the difference between confidence and courage, and why so many of us have been chasing the wrong thing.

True, aligned confidence isn’t about doing more, pushing harder, or finally “getting it together.” It’s about coming back to the truest version of yourself.

In this episode:

• Why lack of confidence is actually a lack of alignment, not effort

• The Dan Sullivan distinction between courage and confidence that changes everything

• How decision fatigue and comparison are quietly draining your sense of self

• Why jealousy is actually a sign something is in your field of possibility

• How to tune back into your soul self and let the right things find you

Whether you’re overthinking every decision or just feeling disconnected from yourself, this episode is your reset.

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Connect with Nicki

🌿 Website: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com⁠

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🌸 MYST Alignment Mists: ⁠https://www.nickikuurman.com/myst⁠

📱 Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/nickikuurman⁠

The Practical Mystic is where grounded spirituality meets modern life - helping you remember who you are beneath the conditioning, expectations and noise of everyday life.