Kate Hastings Show

Kate Hastings
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The Kate Hastings Podcast is a place for real conversations about healing, growth, faith, discipline, relationships, emotional health, and rebuilding your life from the inside out.

  1. 3d ago

    When Survival Becomes Your Way of Living

    What if you woke up tomorrow and didn't experience the day as something you needed to survive? In this episode, I'm unpacking a realization I've recently had about the difference between actually being in survival mode and experiencing life through the lens of survival. When you've spent years overcoming hardship, anticipating problems, managing responsibilities, and constantly preparing for what's next, you can become incredibly good at getting through life without realizing how little of it you're actually allowing yourself to experience. This conversation isn't about abandoning ambition, responsibilities, or the desire to build something meaningful. It's about learning to recognize the life you're already living instead of constantly waiting for the next accomplishment, breakthrough, or season of stability before allowing yourself to enjoy it. Kate Hastings  herformation.com Kate@herformation.com @coachkate1 @herformation   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes www.missionmedplus.com 786-692-9775 @MissionMed.Plus Discount: "Coach Kate" for 10%

  2. Oct 8

    When Survival Is No Longer Required, Who Are You?

    What happens when the version of you who got you through the hardest seasons of your life is no longer the version you need to keep living from? In this episode, I'm talking about how survival can shape our identity, relationships, independence, discipline, and even the way we experience good things. Sometimes we become so good at anticipating, preparing, controlling, and pushing through that we don't realize how much of our life we're spending bracing for what's next instead of actually enjoying what's right in front of us. I'm exploring the connection between our nervous system, the protective patterns we've developed, and what it looks like to keep our strength without constantly operating from survival.   Kate Hastings herformation.com Kate@herformation.com Instagram: @coachkate1 @herformation   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes www.missionmedplus.com 786-692-9775 @MissionMed.Plus Discount: "Coach Kate" for 10%

  3. Oct 1

    What Does It Actually Mean to Feel Safe?

    This episode breaks down what it actually means to feel safe when you have spent years creating safety through control, preparation, independence, achievement, and anticipating what could go wrong. I talk about how our brains and bodies can learn to brace for life, why calm and uncertainty can sometimes feel uncomfortable, and why knowing you are safe is different from actually feeling safe. I walk through safety in the body, mind and emotions, relationship with yourself, relationships and communication, belonging and community, and faith. The goal is not to create a life where nothing difficult happens, but to build the self-trust, healthy connection, emotional capacity, and faith to recognize the difference between something that requires protection and something that simply requires us to stay present through discomfort, vulnerability, or uncertainty.  Kate Hastings  herformation.com Kate@herformation.com @coachkate1 @herformation   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes  www.missionmedplus.com 786-692-9775 @MissionMed.Plus Discount: "Coach Kate" for 10%

  4. Sep 24

    Are You Living Braced?

    There is a difference between being prepared for your life and perpetually preparing yourself against it. In this episode, I unpack internal and physical bracing, preparation versus preoccupation, anticipatory suffering, transitions, receiving, rest, and why slowing down can feel uncomfortable when you're used to handling everything. I talk about how the nervous system can become conditioned to activation when anticipating, solving, monitoring, and staying one step ahead have been practiced for years, and how that state can begin to feel normal even when there is nothing immediately wrong. Being capable, responsible, and prepared are strengths, but there is a difference between using those strengths intentionally and feeling like you have to stay activated in order to feel safe, in control, or ready for whatever might happen next.

  5. Sep 17

    To the Woman Who Lives in Her Masculine by Default

    There is a reality to being a single woman where you have to provide, protect, lead, make the decisions, carry the responsibility, and hold the line because if you don't, no one else will. But the problem isn't that you have to operate in the masculine sometimes, it's when bracing, anticipating, controlling, and handling everything become your default state because your nervous system has learned that staying ahead is what keeps you safe. Femininity isn't about doing less or becoming less capable; it's learning how to stay soft, regulated, present, and receptive while still doing the things your life requires of you. You can make the decisions, pay the bills, lead the business, protect yourself, and hold your standards without doing all of it from fear, urgency, or the belief that everything will fall apart if you stop gripping. The goal isn't to become less strong, it's to become strong and soft at the same time, where your masculine is something you can access when you need it instead of the place you have to live. Kate Hastings herformation.com Kate@herformation.com Instagram: @coachkate1 @herformation   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes www.missionmedplus.com 786-692-9775 @MissionMed.Plus
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  6. Sep 10

    How To Become A Woman You Can Depend On

    In this episode, I'm talking about the difference between self-trust and hyper-independence, and how strength can sometimes become protection when depending on other people hasn't always felt safe. I share how self-trust is built through values, decisions, boundaries, follow-through, and knowing you won't abandon yourself when life gets hard. I also talk about receiving, vulnerability, and why allowing trustworthy people to support you doesn't make you less capable or independent. There is a difference between healthy dependence and needing someone else for your stability, and real self-trust should make connection safer, not make other people unnecessary. You can be soft and strong, capable and supported, independent and still allow people to matter. The goal isn't to become a woman who needs nobody, but a woman who knows she can depend on herself and is secure enough to build a life with people she can depend on too.   Kate Hastings herformation.com+ Kate@herformation.com Instagram: @coachkate1 @herformation   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes www.missionmedplus.com 786-692-9775 + @MissionMed.Plus Discount: "Coach Kate" for 10%

  7. Sep 3

    Understanding the Voice That's Hard on You

    That voice in your head that tells you you're not good enough, you should be further along, or you need to try harder didn't come from nowhere. In this episode, I break down how the inner critic develops, why being hard on yourself can actually feel productive, and what that voice may be trying to protect you from. I talk about the difference between accountability and self-criticism, and how repeated thoughts can eventually become beliefs about who you are. I also share how I've learned to slow that voice down, question what it's telling me, and lead myself from self-respect instead of shame. And I share how my faith completely changed the authority I give my own thoughts and gave me a different foundation for understanding who I am. Kate Hastings  Website: herformation.com  Email: Kate@herformation.com Instagram: @coachkate1   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes Website: www.missionmedplus.com Text 24/7 or Call: 786-692-9775 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com Discount: "Coach Kate" for 10% off all services

  8. Aug 27

    Understanding Your Cycles & Patterns

    In this podcast, I'm breaking down the patterns and cycles we live in, how they get formed, why they can be so hard to see, and how something you learned years ago can quietly keep running your life today. Sometimes you don't even know you have a pattern because it just feels like who you are. You keep ending up in the same friendships, relationships, emotional reactions, burnout, overthinking, people-pleasing, self-abandonment, or beliefs about yourself and eventually you have to ask, why do I keep ending up here? We're getting into how your environment, nervous system, thoughts, emotions, and behaviors all work together to reinforce what feels familiar, even when familiar isn't healthy. But awareness is only the beginning. Changing a pattern requires doing something different long enough to create new evidence. It means building the capacity to receive what used to feel uncomfortable, sit with emotions without immediately reacting to them, and separate what you feel from what is actually true about you. Kate Hastings  Website: herformation.com Email: Kate@herformation.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 Discount: Mention "Coach Kate" for 10% off all services

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The Kate Hastings Podcast is a place for real conversations about healing, growth, faith, discipline, relationships, emotional health, and rebuilding your life from the inside out.

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  • Creator
    Kate Hastings
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    327
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © The Kate Hastings Podcast
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    Kate Hastings Show

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