Kate Hastings Show

Kate Hastings

The Kate Hastings Show is a platform of transformation and community. A place of specialized knowledge, communication, unity, open conversations about health, wellness,lifestyle and people of their expertise.

  1. JAN 22

    Emotional Needs vs Emotional Strategies

    Emotional needs are the internal conditions required for a human nervous system to feel safe, settled, and capable of connection. They exist so the body can regulate emotion, restore capacity, and stay present in relationship without living in a constant state of threat. Emotional strategies, on the other hand, are the learned behaviors and patterns the nervous system develops when those needs are not consistently met. Strategies are not needs. They are adaptations. They help us cope, function, and survive in environments where safety, rest, support, or connection did not feel reliably available. Most people confuse emotional needs with emotional strategies because strategies often reduce discomfort quickly. When something lowers anxiety in the short term, the nervous system treats it as essential, even if it does not heal anything. This is how pain gets shuffled around instead of resolved. Discomfort gets moved into productivity, control, discipline, independence, or emotional distance, and because those things are praised, the underlying emotion goes unnoticed. It looks like strength, drive, being nice, or having high standards, but nothing about the actual emotion is being tended to. What is happening is management, not regulation. Management keeps you functional. Regulation is what allows emotion to move, settle, and integrate. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: phenyx.fit 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram: @coachkate1 Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes Website: www.missionmedplus.com Text 24/7 or Call: 786-692-9775 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com Instagram: @MissionMed.Plus Mention "Coach Kate" for 10% off all services

    31 min
  2. JAN 1

    What You Must Let Go of Before 2026

    If you keep entering a new year hoping things will change without confronting the patterns you keep repeating, nothing will be different. Familiar habits. Familiar reactions. Familiar relationships. Familiar excuses. Over time, that repetition does not just stall progress. It reshapes your identity and erodes self-trust. In this episode, I break down why motivation always fades under pressure and why discipline without structure collapses into burnout. I expose the internal enemies most people avoid. Undisciplined thinking. Survival tactics that are no longer necessary. Coping skills that numb instead of build capacity. Predictable failure loops. People-pleasing disguised as kindness. Environments that quietly keep you stuck. You will hear a direct breakdown of the internal battles that must be faced before anything external can change. Thought governance. Emotional regulation. Boundaries. Values. Standards. And the real cost of avoiding your blind spots. Not with shame. With clarity and ownership. This episode is for anyone tired of almost becoming who they were called to be. For those who know they are capable of more but keep sabotaging themselves in familiar ways. If you are ready to stop surviving, stop outsourcing responsibility, and start living with intention, courage, and alignment, this is the work. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: phenyx.fit 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram: @coachkate1 Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes Website: www.missionmedplus.com Text 24/7 or Call: 786-692-9775 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com Instagram: @MissionMed.Plus Mention "Coach Kate" for 10% off all services

    1h 15m
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49 Ratings

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The Kate Hastings Show is a platform of transformation and community. A place of specialized knowledge, communication, unity, open conversations about health, wellness,lifestyle and people of their expertise.