Are you finding yourself more and more dreading having to hang out or deal with certain people in your life? They might have a more negative perspective on life and no matter what kind of positive or upbeat things you have to say to them, they always find a way to bring a rain cloud to the conversation. These people really can drain the life force out of you. People with a negative mindset can sometimes appear that they are always the ones that are suffering and no matter what ‘bad things’ that ...
Mar 09, 2023•10 min•Ep. 135
Many of us are facing burnout right now. How do you know that you’re currently experiencing it or feeling it? Do you feel mentally exhausted, completely checked out, and that no matter how much rest that you get, it just doesn’t help? These all could be signs of burnout. Burnout is a condition that extends well-beyond being overworked or overwhelmed. It is a state of emotional and physical exhaustion, which is brought on by prolonged chronic stress. If you are juggling everything and can’t seem ...
Mar 02, 2023•10 min•Ep. 134
When we set a goal, it is naturally going to be difficult to achieve because setting new goals requires us to go out of our normal comfort zone and do something differently. For example, if you have a desire to create better boundaries, that could mean your current relationships could drastically change for the better (or for worse). The unknown of this can create a healthy fear within you because you’re not sure if these relationships will become stronger or if they will leave you/abandon you. ...
Feb 23, 2023•8 min•Ep. 133
Do you have an inner voice that is often telling you negative criticisms in an effort to try and protect you? Our inner critic is often our greatest obstacle to our personal success and happiness. Many high-achieving people are able to mask what their inner voice says, but that doesn’t mean they, too, don’t experience this criticism in their heads 24/7. We all have a judge inside us that has nasty comments to say. You will never truly remove this voice, but you can control its intensity and how ...
Feb 17, 2023•11 min•Ep. 132
Do you suffer from high-functioning anxiety? Some of the clues that you might be experiencing this are: hardest worker in the room, always working through lunch, hyper vigilance on new emails or messages coming in, and you try to stay on top of everything at all times, even on the weekends. If you’re proud to have the ‘overachiever’ title, then this is one of the biggest indicators that you have high-functioning anxiety. You might be seen as someone who is incredibly organized and that you have ...
Feb 09, 2023•9 min•Ep. 131
We set goals all the time. It could be because it’s a new year, it could be because it’s a new month, or it could be because you’re just ready for a change and it’s Monday! But, why is it so hard to stick to our goals, especially after we’ve gotten clear on what they are? When you set a goal, it usually means you have to change some type of behavior or do something differently to reach that milestone. This pushes us out of our comfort zone and that fear and uncertainty holds us back. Our brain l...
Feb 02, 2023•8 min•Ep. 130
Shame is considered a toxic emotion. It can have a big affect on your physical and emotional health and it can lead to substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and poor self-esteem. Shame and guilt can often get confused with one another, but they’re two different emotions. Shame is the thought that you are a bad person whereas guilt is the thought that you’ve made a grave mistake and you feel badly about it and want to rectify it. Where does shame come from? We begin to take on this identity that ...
Jan 27, 2023•10 min•Ep. 129
Is there a connection between perfectionism and eating disorders? The answer is yes! There are higher instances of perfectionism among people who are struggling with their relationship with food. Perfectionism is described as a personality characteristic that has a tendency to have excessively high expectations of one’s self. Because of these incredibly high expectations, they’re deeply concerned about making mistakes, which can paralyze them from taking action. The internal fear of failing driv...
Jan 19, 2023•9 min•Ep. 128
Setting boundaries is part of the process of self-care. Boundaries help us take care of our responsibilities, help us manage our relationships, and also protect our emotional and mental wellbeing. Everyone needs healthy boundaries, but highly sensitive people tend to have the hardest time setting these boundaries. What is a highly sensitive person? They tend to have an increased responsiveness to their central nervous system. They tend to be more aware/sensitive to internal and external stimuli....
Jan 12, 2023•7 min•Ep. 127
How often do you feel like you're unable to focus or even think clearly? Do you get distracted by the abundant information out there and have a hard time discerning what's valuable and what's not? Do you sometimes feel like you're going down rabbit holes just by paying attention to all the unimportant details? The truth is, everyone experiences brain fog from time to time, but if you consistently lack mental clarity, it can have a big effect on your emotional health. This lack of clarity can be ...
Jan 05, 2023•10 min•Ep. 126
Stress and anxiety are not abnormal feelings. How can you identify whether what you're feeling is stress or if it’s anxiety? Can it be both? How do you know? The truth is, these are very common feelings and you’re not alone in feeling them when you’re undergoing a huge challenge or when you’re facing the unknown. This is your body’s way of putting up a fight! What is stress? This is a normal human response to a change or demand on your body. Stress can cause a physical, emotional, or a mental re...
Dec 30, 2022•10 min•Ep. 125
As we enter into a new year, so many of us feel compelled to make new goals for ourselves. We set the intention to be different, make more money, lose weight, and put such intense pressure on ourselves to ‘be someone else’. How many times have we looked back and realized none of our intentions from last year were fulfilled? It’s time to take a pause. It is important to take a moment to reflect and really take a moment to examine how we want to show up differently, and what were some of the setba...
Dec 22, 2022•7 min•Ep. 124
Do you have this dread within you where you don’t know how to move forward or you’re just feeling plain stuck? It’s okay to have these stagnant feelings within us sometimes, but if it starts to creep up on you over and over, and you feel like no matter what, your bad patterns are coming back to haunt you, then it’s time to reevaluate. If you’re feeling stuck right now, are you holding onto something in the past that you shouldn't be? Remember, forgiveness isn’t for the other person, it’s for you...
Dec 15, 2022•10 min•Ep. 122
As the holiday season is coming up soon and we begin to see more friends and family around this time, our boundaries can get completely pushed over in the process. It’s important to maintain our sense of self as we enjoy and spend time with those that we love. However, you must remind yourself that no is a complete sentence. There is also nothing wrong with the word no. Some of us might think just by saying the word ‘no’ we’re being disrespectful or intentionally harmful. That’s not the case! Ta...
Dec 08, 2022•10 min•Ep. 121
Bad patterns that don’t serve us can keep cropping up over and over and sometimes we feel helpless in not knowing what to do to solve it. As the new year is coming up, many people are beginning their resolution process and trying to set new goals for the upcoming year. Kamini likes to approach it differently. With a little reflection, Kamini asks herself what might no longer be serving her and then works on shifting it to a healthier place. A majority of our patterns happen everyday and they’re ...
Dec 01, 2022•10 min•Ep. 120
Social media gives us the opportunity to turn off our brains and let us escape a little bit. There are a lot of benefits to social media, it can offer us connection with others, a source of enjoyment as we look at cute baby animals, and so much more. Not all social media is bad, but if we’re not careful, it can turn toxic if we’re following the wrong things. Social media can be bad for you if you do not set healthy boundaries and you use it to compare yourself to others. Social media has the abi...
Nov 25, 2022•10 min•Ep. 119
Kamini continues her discussion around shame. This time covering toxic shame and how it shows up for some of us. Shame is very internal and toxic shame takes it one step further by making you feel like you’re a wrong, worthless, or inferior person. This level of toxic shame usually happens as a result of a traumatic experience. People who have been abused often feel like they deserved the experience that happened to them. Deep levels of shame can have you unintentionally develop self-sabotaging ...
Nov 17, 2022•10 min•Ep. 118
Carl Jung once said that shame is a soul-eating emotion. It also seems quite paradoxical that it feels quite shameful to talk about shame. Shame holds us up from the goals and aspirations we have for ourselves. What is shame and how is it different from guilt? Shame is an internal message you have that there is something wrong with you. Guilt is a more general feeling that you’ve done something bad or did something wrong. Shame, however, digs deep at your inner self and your own core and blames ...
Nov 11, 2022•9 min•Ep. 117
Breathwork can be very helpful in releasing and healing certain emotions that you have trapped in your body. Kamini will be diving deeping into what an emotional detox is and why it might be a good practice to put in place when your life is getting too hectic or stressful. There are a lot of stressors the human body is exposed to in our modern world. Not only is there stress in our home or work, but if you spend too much time on social media or various news outlets, your mind and emotional wellb...
Nov 03, 2022•8 min•Ep. 116
It doesn’t matter if there was a big thing that happened to you in your life that was traumatic or even a small thing, if it affects you, it affects you! You shouldn’t feel guilty if it appears to be ‘so small’ yet it was traumatizing to you. Pain is relative and subjective to each individual. What is trauma exactly? This is a person’s emotional reaction to an upsetting experience and the traumatic event can be highly distressing. At times, it can completely max out a person’s stress ability to ...
Oct 27, 2022•11 min•Ep. 115
Our thoughts are tied to feelings, they’re tied to narratives and stories, and the way we think is going to affect our reality. When we have a rigid way of thinking, we are unable to see the perspective of others and by closing ourselves off from this, we close ourselves off from a different worldview. This rigid thinking will only hurt us in the end. When we have flexible thinking, we also have more resiliency. We are able to see the world in a more open way, which helps us move forward because...
Oct 20, 2022•10 min•Ep. 114
Imposter syndrome has been popping up more and more in some of Kamini’s coaching sessions. People feel like they’re simply not capable of achieving great things or they might feel like they’re unable to properly handle certain challenges that they’re currently facing. Do you constantly question your own capabilities? Do you feel like you’re not smart enough? These are all signs of imposter syndrome! Imposter syndrome can ripple all throughout our professional and personal lives. For example, par...
Oct 13, 2022•10 min•Ep. 113
We can’t control our thoughts, no matter how hard we try. Our emotions, thoughts, and behaviors are all linked together. Sometimes we’ll have an emotion, which creates a thought, or a thought that creates an emotion. From that, we’ll then decide to take action on it. When we consistently have negative thoughts, we can fall into these negative thought loops that make it hard for us to get out of. Yes, our emotional or mental health does take a hit, but our physical health will eventually take a h...
Oct 06, 2022•11 min•Ep. 112
Kamini teaches classes on breathwork, but don’t people already know how to breathe? What does a class like that even look like? What you might not know is that most people breathe throughout their day in a very shallow way. People might not know how healing breathwork can actually be to the body when it’s done correctly. Our body holds onto trauma and experiences we’ve had and we need to find a way to release that so that we can give ourselves the room we need to heal. Breathwork opens us up to ...
Sep 29, 2022•10 min•Ep. 111
We all have expectations and we all have ideas of what we want to accomplish in our lives. There’s nothing wrong with expecting things of ourselves, expecting things out of others, and setting healthy boundaries to respect those expectations. However, sometimes our expectations go unchecked and they end up being too unrealistic. As a high achiever, Kamini knows she sets the bar way too high for herself, which can lead to unnecessary stress. She has to catch herself in the moment to re-center her...
Sep 22, 2022•10 min•Ep. 110
Did you know we have both primary and secondary emotions? We tend to shy away from the immediate emotions we are facing at the moment. Although it can be scary, emotions shouldn’t be something you run away from. It’s important to face your emotions. Today, we’ll be diving into the difference between primary and secondary emotions. Emotions play an essential role in our health, in our behavior, our interactions, and even in the relationships we create with others. What are emotions? A good way to...
Sep 15, 2022•9 min•Ep. 109
Let’s talk about the feelings and emotions around being triggered. What does it mean to be triggered? Typically, it means you’re having a strong reaction to something in the moment that reminded you of a traumatic event in the past. Sometimes, it’s not always so clear why you might be having this reaction, you just know you’re feeling overwhelmed, disrespected, uncared for, and more, to something that happened in the moment. These strong reactions are often reminders of painful experiences and e...
Sep 08, 2022•10 min•Ep. 108
Do you find yourself consumed by negative thoughts? There’s nothing inherently wrong with having negative thoughts, but if you can’t seem to shake them away or you find yourself constantly in a negative state, then that’s when this behavior becomes unhealthy. Our thoughts influence our actions, which then influences the types of results we are seeing. Our inner chatter never truly stops, but if we’re aware of what’s coming up for us, then we’re able to work on our inner dialogue to have a more p...
Sep 01, 2022•9 min•Ep. 107
What’s the difference between empathy and sympathy? Empathy means ‘I am with you in your feelings’ whereas sympathy means ‘I can understand your feelings’. When you’re able to fully be with someone in their feelings, it allows the other person to be witnessed and understood. People might use empathy and sympathy interchangeably, but they’re not the same. However, compassion is still used in both. Empathy is the basis for healthier relationships because it helps us understand other people’s feeli...
Aug 25, 2022•9 min•Ep. 106
Attachment style refers to how we connect with people on a default level. Our attachment patterns generally come from how we were cared for as children and they get brought with us to adulthood. However, even if we grew up in a great or not-so-great past, we can always work on our attachment patterns and relate to others in a healthier way. For this episode, let’s focus on the anxious attachment style. This is an insecure attachment style where the bonds are not formed from trust and security bu...
Aug 18, 2022•11 min•Ep. 105
