Better Than Therapy

Kevin Lawrence and Britta Kristin
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Husband and wife transformational coaches Kevin Lawrence and Britta Kristin candidly, vulnerably, and sometimes irreverently explore the art of transformation and the nature of the human experience. Email questions for ask us anything episodes to britta@brittakristin.com

  1. 4D AGO

    Shaken from the Inside Out

    Kevin's body started trembling — and he let it. What happened next was a physical miracle: his right arm, which had hung nearly four inches lower than his left since a traumatic surgery nearly two decades ago, became perfectly symmetrical in the mirror. All from surrendering to an innate tremor response. These are notes from the field — personal testimony of something freshly discovered, not expert opinions or advice. Kevin stumbled onto TRE (Trauma Release Exercises) a few weeks ago through Angelo DiLullo's work; Britta is watching the transformation unfold in real-time. Together, they dive into the divine intelligence of the body — an intelligence that knows exactly how to unwind tension if we can just get out of the way. In this episode, Kevin shares the trippy details of his practice: the involuntary shaking, the vivid surfacing of a 20-year-old surgical memory, and the full-body movements that finally completed a cycle of trauma his system had been carrying since he was 22. The second half explores the relationship between excitement and anxiety. Drawing on Joe Hudson's work, Kevin and Britta discuss how suppressed excitement manifests as fear and anxiety, and how playing it cool caps our joy. They offer a simple experiment to help you reclaim your power and move further up and further in to a life of infinite unfolding. The war is over. Your body is ready to come home. TRE videos: Kevin recommends starting with this one first, and then moving onto this one second (it gets weirder and wilder). Britta: ⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠⁠kevinlawrence.org⁠

    43 min

  2. MAR 30

    Flirting Back with Life: The Life-Changing Magic of Being Delighted

    Delight! Enchantment! Celebration! Gratitude! Joy! What if these aren't things you practice — but a person you become? This episode is an invitation to stop managing your excitement and start romancing life back. Britta and Kevin explore the transformative power of delight, enchantment, and celebration as a fundamental way of orienting through life — not as a gratitude practice or a fleeting moment of happiness, but as a consistent way of being that leads to greater ease, beauty, and abundance. Kevin shares his initial skepticism, wondering if Britta's constant state of joy was a form of bypassing. Together they dismantle that — because while modern transformational culture emphasizes the importance of not bypassing "negative" emotions, we are equally prone to bypassing joy. Choosing delight isn't toxic positivity. It's turning up the volume on joy so it's actually included in the full spectrum of human experience. They also dig into celebration as a data point for the brain — how actively celebrating your wins, no matter how small, rebuilds self-worth and retrains your mind toward what's working. And why reclaiming childlike wonder and awe is one of the most direct routes back to creativity, productivity, and making cool stuff in the world. Life is constantly trying to flirt with you. This episode is about flirting back — and accessing the magic that's available right now. Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠⁠Listener Connection Form⁠⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠⁠⁠kevinlawrence.org⁠

    28 min

  3. MAR 16

    How Do We Actually Change the World? (A Live Coaching Session with Britta and Michael McDonald)

    This episode is a little different. What you’re about to hear is a raw, unedited coaching conversation between Britta and her coach, Michael McDonald — one she originally never intended to share publicly. Together, they explore a question many people are wrestling with right now: how do we stay grounded and wise when the world feels like it’s unraveling? The conversation moves through big territory: reacting vs. creating, the effects of left-brain dominance in our culture, and what it really means to take responsibility for the world without losing your center. Along the way, a phrase emerges: “gather the witches” — a call for grounded, powerful women to come together in service of something larger than themselves. This episode is also a glimpse of what it looks like to follow aliveness into the unknown. Messy, thoughtful, and alive, while exploring how meaningful change might actually happen. About Michael: Michael McDonald is a transformational coach for visionary entrepreneurs, executives, and mentoring other coaches. With a style that’s part Mr. Rogers, part Inception, he helps leaders shift from conceptual to actual, from empowered to awakened, and from complexity to simplicity. His life’s work is to help humanity align with spiritual truth, one conversation at a time. “Something awesome is trying to happen, and your job is to allow it.” Website: authenticintegrity.com Email: michael@authenticintegrity.com Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠Listener Connection Form⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠⁠kevinlawrence.org⁠

    1h 23m

  4. MAR 9

    Mini: Prioritizing Truth Above Fear (A Thinking Session in the Car)

    Join Kevin for a raw, unedited “thinking session” recorded from the driver’s seat, just fifteen minutes before an acupuncture appointment. Stepping away from the inner corporate manager and the polished coach persona, Kevin leans into a new experiment: following the desire to be f*****g free and moving toward a more honest, messy kind of authenticity. In this solo episode, Kevin reflects on what he calls the “truth game” — the practice of prioritizing truth over fear, even when it’s uncomfortable, inconvenient, or disruptive. Along the way, he explores reclaiming the podcast as a space for his real voice rather than staying confined to the box of what a teacher or coach is supposed to sound like. He also shares a deeply personal turning point: the decision to end his relationship with his birth family, and the internal shift that led from simply wanting space to realizing he was complete. Sometimes we just need space to ask ourselves: What would I actually like to think about...and what are my thoughts? Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Listener Connection Form⁠⁠⁠⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠⁠⁠kevinlawrence.org

    14 min

  5. MAR 2

    We’re Trying Something Different: An Emergent Conversation with Kevin and Britta

    In this episode, we pull back the curtain. We experiment with a more emergent format and have the kind of meta conversation we’d normally keep off-mic, examining the systems that have shaped this podcast and asking whether they still serve the soul of it. We talk about walking as a mental health baseline, the power of changing context, and what it means to follow aliveness over logistics. We also share why “Better Than Therapy” is evolving into “Soul Game,” and what that shift represents. This is a live shift — a conversation about structure, identity, and what happens when you let something grow beyond the version that first worked and choose truth over momentum. If you’re interested in zooming out on your own systems, following what feels alive, and reimagining what it looks like to build something — and live — together, this one’s for you. Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠⁠⁠Listener Connection Form⁠⁠⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠⁠kevinlawrence.org

    41 min

  6. FEB 23

    Mini: The Dreambody — Working with Body Symptoms and Dreams

    In this short solo episode, Kevin explores a powerful idea from Arnold Mindell called the “dreaming body” — the understanding that our nighttime dreams and our physical symptoms may be part of the same intelligent conversation. What if pain isn’t random? What if it’s guidance? Through the story of a persistent knee issue that dissolved after a surprising dream about an underground roller coaster, this episode traces the deeper message underneath the symptom — a call toward surrender, slowing down, and reconnecting with the wisdom of the ground. Not more striving. Not more transcendence. But more balance. More yin. More emptiness. Rather than fighting discomfort or trying to engineer it away, this conversation invites a different posture: listening. Honoring the body as an ally. Seeing symptoms not as problems to eliminate, but as messages pointing toward greater wholeness. If you’ve ever felt stuck in a pattern — physically or emotionally — this mini episode offers a gentle but radical reframe. Your body may not be breaking down. It may be trying to bring you home. Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠⁠Listener Connection Form⁠⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠kevinlawrence.org

    8 min

  7. FEB 16

    “Busy” Is Something You’re Doing — And It’s Optional…And It’s Not Effective

    In this episode, Kevin and Britta explore and challenge one of modern life’s most unquestioned assumptions: that being “busy” is inevitable, necessary, or effective. They draw a crucial distinction between "having a lot on" and being "busy." One is a neutral fact of your calendar. The other is something you’re actively doing in your mind. And it turns out that the mental noise we associate with productivity — urgency, pressure, overwhelm — isn’t helping us function better. It’s actually the poison that slows us down. Using the metaphor of “open mental tabs,” Kevin and Britta explore how carrying everything at once clogs the system, and how much more effective, clear, and grounded we become when we give ourselves permission to close those tabs and do the next single thing from a quieter mind. The conversation also points to a surprising insight: the ease we usually associate with vacations has nothing to do with location or time off. It’s an internal state — one that’s available on a normal Tuesday morning when we stop adding unnecessary noise to our thinking. This episode is an invitation to step through the "scary exit door" of stress and discover what actually happens when you stop trying to manage life through overwhelm. Nothing falls apart — and you may find yourself doing your best work with far more clarity, ease, and effectiveness. Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠Listener Connection Form⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: kevinlawrence.org

    30 min

  8. FEB 9

    Mini: What’s Your System for That?

    In this episode, Kevin and Britta invite you to stop fighting your results and start looking at the hidden machinery creating them. We often feel like victims of our circumstances — struggling with low energy, stagnant income, or repetitive relationship patterns — but the truth is that our lives are perfectly designed to produce exactly what we are currently experiencing. Whether it’s a childhood survival mechanism or a "systemless system" of avoidance, we are all running protocols that once seemed logical but are now just innocently dumb. The path to change isn't a frantic leap into a new strategy; it’s a radical, honest pause to build awareness of what you are actually doing right now. By learning to laugh at outdated mental software and approaching change as a playful experiment, we can shift from being subject to our past to becoming the architects of our future — and create results that once seemed miraculous. Want to be part of the next Ask Us Anything? Share your questions here: ⁠Listener Connection Form⁠ Britta: ⁠⁠⁠brittakristin.com⁠⁠⁠ Kevin: ⁠kevinlawrence.org⁠

    16 min
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Husband and wife transformational coaches Kevin Lawrence and Britta Kristin candidly, vulnerably, and sometimes irreverently explore the art of transformation and the nature of the human experience. Email questions for ask us anything episodes to britta@brittakristin.com

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  • Creator
    Kevin Lawrence and Britta Kristin
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    73
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Kevin Lawrence and Britta Kristin
  • Show Website
    Better Than Therapy

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