Life hands us “opportunities to grow” (yuck) when we least want them, when we feel least prepared for them, when we just don’t have room or time or energy for them. Here are 3 big lessons from this week’s unwanted “opportunity for growth.” ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working with me i...
May 29, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 296
I will go into the whole story but the MESSAGE for today is this: You ALWAYS have two choices when it comes to stressful situations. You can be PANICKED AF. ANXIOUS AF. AFRAID AF. OR Calm AF. In this episode I’m going to share with you why it’s ALWAYS worth it to choose calm AF. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute ca...
May 22, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 295
The second you embrace who you are, instead of telling yourself you can't feel better or calmer or free until your external circumstances change – the instant you realize that your happiness can ONLY come from you – you will feel better. Calmer. Free. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about worki...
May 15, 2024•9 min•Season 1Ep. 294
Hoarding useful and helpful information is not moving the needle. It is only creating brain clutter. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
May 08, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 293
The golden rule of calm AF is Nervous System First because your life is curated based on the state of your nervous system. The state of your relationships, the state of your home, the state of your overall wellbeing is absolutely shaped by the state of your nervous system. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ ...
May 01, 2024•18 min•Season 1Ep. 292
You need to learn how to manage your OWN feelings of discomfort instead of thinking you have to manage everyone else’s. This is how you will take your power back. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Apr 24, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 291
This episode is absolutely essential learning because until you have a different understanding of your own nervous system, you will always be chasing the next tool that might help you calm down. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! ~ Access the FREE Nervous System Course here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working with me ...
Apr 17, 2024•21 min•Season 1Ep. 290
There are 3 main dysregulation patterns: Hypervigilance, hypovigilance and vacillators. This episode is all about Vacillators, of which I number. And if you didn’t take your quiz yet, to find out which pattern you use the most, check the show notes, take the quiz. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquir...
Apr 10, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 289
There are 3 main dysregulation patterns: Hypervigilance, hypovigilance and vacillators. This episode is all about Hypervigilance. And if you didn’t take your quiz yet, to find out which pattern you use the most, check the show notes, take the quiz. ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working ...
Apr 03, 2024•20 min•Season 1Ep. 288
There are 3 main dysregulation patterns: Hypervigilance, hypovigilance and vacillators. This episode is all about Hypervigilance. And if you didn’t take your quiz yet, to find out which pattern you use the most, take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simply click here to set up a 30 minute call. ~ To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Mar 27, 2024•23 min•Season 1Ep. 287
To learn how to be and stay in calm AF energy, you have to get to know your internal dysregulation patterns. When you get to know your own nervous system and how you behave when you’re dysregulated, you can start taking control of your own energy (instead of feeling powerless to everything happening outside of you). ~ Take the Nervous System Pattern Quiz here! Not yet a member of Calm AF Life? ~ Join here to pay in full ~ Join here for payment plan ~ Or if you have questions before joining, simp...
Mar 20, 2024•22 min•Season 1Ep. 286
Is the folk wisdom living rent-free in your head ACTUALLY serving you and making your life better? Probably not. Here's to playing now and working later. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here.
Mar 13, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 285
If you’re not prioritizing FUN in your day-to-day, then you are missing out on major benefits to your health, relationships, career, and even your bank account. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here.
Mar 06, 2024•25 min•Season 1Ep. 284
I like to think of Leap Day as a bonus 24 hours and I think about it this way: if I were at the end of my life and I was gifted an extra 24 hours, how would I spend that day? To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here.
Feb 28, 2024•19 min•Season 1Ep. 283
If you want to change anything, you've got to be willing to feel discomfort. Changing how you feel about your life, deciding to leave a toxic job or a toxic relationship, finding your forever person. Whatever it is, discomfort will accompany change. And if you want to feel better, calmer, happier, more content, more FREE...you have to choose growth over comfort. For a deeper dive, visit kristenfinch.com . To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, cl...
Feb 21, 2024•17 min•Season 1Ep. 282
There are so many reasons why we all need to prioritize a healthy, loving relationship with ourselves. It makes life simpler. It makes you feel better. You have more confidence. You set and enforce boundaries easier. It’s easier to love other people. It’s easier to let other people love you. So, ignore the gimmicky, click-baity, product-pushing headlines about self-love and get busy truly loving on yourself. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024,...
Feb 14, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 281
Life hands us “opportunities to grow” (yuck) when we least want them, when we feel least prepared for them, when we just don’t have room or time or energy for them. Here’s to keeping what really matters in your mind, heart, and soul when these ass-ortunities come knocking. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Feb 07, 2024•15 min•Season 1Ep. 280
When you’re in the middle of a thought spin out, your mind’s brakes are overridden by the nervous system. Here’s how to resume control. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here.
Jan 31, 2024•27 min•Season 1Ep. 279
Self trust, self belief, self acceptance, and self compassion will get you to the finish line of your goals WAY faster than self berating, self criticism, self sabotaging. So if your inner boss treats you like shit, it’s time to fire her and choose a more worthy leader. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Jan 17, 2024•26 min•Season 1Ep. 277
My client Danielle shares how she has transformed from someone who prioritized everyone else before herself to someone who prioritizes herself, her goals, and her life. To get your ticket to the Calm AF Goals Workshop on January 14th (or to get the replay) click here. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Jan 10, 2024•40 min•Season 1Ep. 276
My client Danielle shares her Calm AF journey in this delightful conversation! To get your ticket to the Calm AF Goals Workshop on January 14th (or to get the replay) click here. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here.
Jan 03, 2024•44 min•Season 1Ep. 275
If you SET goals like a f*ckin’ boss but struggle to ACHIEVE them, these 5 tips will change your life. To get your ticket to the Calm AF Goals Workshop on January 14th (or to get the replay) click here. To join the Calm AF Life waitlist, click here. To inquire about working with me in 2024, click here....
Dec 27, 2023•25 min•Season 1Ep. 274
What I’ve found over the years is that this question: WHAT DO YOU WANT? is one of the hardest questions for women to answer. If you are not giving yourself permission to want what you want, these three obstacles are probably the reasons why. Join my Future Self Course! Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here to join the waiting list. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Dec 20, 2023•19 min•Season 1Ep. 273
I could not be prouder of – or happier for – my clients who recently found themselves not only USING but totally benefitting from the Calm AF Life tools that they’ve been steadily and consistently adopting in our group and 1:1 coaching. And here’s the key: they are reaping major transformations through relentless commitment to the process . Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here to join the waiting list. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Dec 13, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 272
WHY do we wait for a wake up call to feel ALIVE in our lives..to stop living a life in survival mode and start living our one life NOW. Today, I’m going to share with you the BIGGEST lies we are believing that are keeping us from reclaiming our lives from survival mode hell. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Prefer a payment plan? I got you. Tap here. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Dec 06, 2023•18 min•Season 1Ep. 271
Thanks to neuroplasticity, the brain’s ability to rewire neural connections, you can create any habit you want – especially with these 4 ingredients. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Prefer a payment plan? I got you. Tap here. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Nov 29, 2023•23 min•Season 1Ep. 270
Calm AF is an energy state where you know you are in control of your feelings, moods, and thoughts AND knowing you aren’t in control of other people’s. When you learn to be calm AF, you aren’t reliant on other people being in a good mood so you can be in a good mood. If you want to actually feel calm, ease, rest, joy, happiness that is dependent on nothing outside of you, you need to learn to be Calm AF. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Interested in working with me but not sure whe...
Nov 22, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 269
Vulnerability is not just a virtue; it's a lifeline. In the face of struggle, shame, and the overwhelming pressure to prove your worthiness, PLEASE choose vulnerability instead of choosing isolation. Instead of choosing to go it alone, find a person or a community that gets it. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Join me and other Calm AFers in Mexico! Tap here, spots are limited. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Nov 15, 2023•31 min•Season 1Ep. 268
Today I want to talk about the TOLL your people pleasing, perfectionism, energy managing, and overachieving behaviors are having on you. These are not so much character traits as they are your nervous system’s reactions to perceived dangers. And, because mind-body connection dictates that toxic thoughts are poison in the body, it’s important to unlearn these self-defeating habits - and master new ones. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Join me and other Calm AFers in Mexico! Tap here...
Nov 08, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 267
Sometimes when you’re in a rut, you have to just be in it for a minute while you work your way out. But when you’re cycling through a toxic pattern that isn’t changing, you have to think about your future self and shake things up. Join me and other Calm AFers in Mexico! Tap here, spots are limited. Interested in joining Calm AF Life? Tap here. Interested in working with me but not sure where to start? Tap here....
Nov 01, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 266
