Embracing Your Body: Building a Positive and Supportive Relationship with Yourself
"One of the greatest sources of suffering endured by the human body is the hatred heaped upon it by the voices in our heads." -Kirsten...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 51 min read
Using Your Challenges as Opportunities to Practice
Your challenges can provide unique opportunities for immersive practice. Our work to develop unconditional love, acceptance, and...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 52 min read
The Power of Healing: Evolving Beyond Socially Contracted Wounds
“What do you believe about White men?” This one question asked discerningly during an executive diversity training with counselor, coach,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 52 min read
Understanding Compassion Fatigue: How to Prevent a Life-Threatening Result
Do you hurt when others hurt? Do you feel sympathy and concern for the misfortunes and suffering of others? Are you compelled to use your...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 51 min read
The Benefits of Unschooling: A Personal Journey and Perspective
Preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school. For many of us, these are a given. The process by which we are...
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Kirsten Johansen
Mar 51 min read
Unveiling the Reality Behind "The Idealized Image": How to Embrace Authenticity
We learn early in life that we must live up to and perform to certain standards to be considered intelligent, successful, attractive, and...
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Kirsten Johansen
Feb 262 min read
How to Overcome Negative Self-Talk: Conversations with Your Inner Critic
Does your Inner Critic have a lot to say? You’re not alone! Your Inner Critic takes its job seriously and shows up to remind you that...
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Kirsten Johansen
Sep 25, 20231 min read
Breaking Free: How to Overcome Self-Hating Perfectionism and Embrace Self-Acceptance
I changed everything. Everything. I only set out to find the source of my insidious and nearly debilitating suffering and stem the flow....
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Kirsten Johansen
Sep 25, 20231 min read
How to Embrace Your Latest Challenge as a Stepping Stone, Not a Setback
There's no need to consider a challenge the last straw and feel your back is about to break. With perspective and a shift in mindset,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Aug 17, 20231 min read
Are you having trouble sleeping? So was I.
My efforts to sleep have run the gamut. Alcohol, opioids, benzodiazepines, anti-emetics, cannabis, dogs in the bed, dogs not in the bed,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20233 min read
Angels Among Us: How Farrah Fawcett Saved My Life
Farrah Fawcett saved my life. In early 2011, I was diagnosed with Stage IIIB anal cancer. I knew I had it, even though my doctors told me...
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20233 min read
Regardless of What You Were Taught To Believe...There is Nothing Wrong with You
In the spring of 2020, Cheri Huber's book, There is Nothing Wrong With You, gave me a lifeline. It was an epiphany that set me on a path...
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20231 min read
How to Free Yourself from Resentment Once and For All
Resentments are sticky. They don't have to be. They feel like they are about another person or situation, and if it were only righted by...
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20231 min read
What If You Never Spent Another Moment Feeling Bad About How You Look?
In a world that bombards us with the ever-shifting ideals of beauty and perfection, it's easy to fall prey to self-doubt and worry about...
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Release Your Resentments and Forgive Yourself
Kirsten talks with Kelly about how to change the narrative, forgive yourself, and release those sticky resentments so you can heal for good.
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Kirsten Johansen
Jun 9, 20231 min read
Your Weight and Size Are Not the Problems: Changing the Conversation Around Body Image
According to those pesky (yet emotionally charged) little labels in my clothes, I've occupied eight different sizes in my adult life....
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Kirsten Johansen
Feb 6, 202318 min read
So, You Want a New Job
You sit with your dad in the upstairs TV room where you spend much of your time watching movies and MTV. You are seventeen and are...
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Kirsten Johansen
Dec 2, 202213 min read
Standing Close to the Flame
You arrive in Malta exhausted. You have made this trip several times, but this time you find it particularly difficult to sit on the...
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Kirsten Johansen
Oct 12, 202212 min read
The Octopus's Garden
What are you going to do…what are you going to do…what are you going to do…Your mind races and your body vibrates with anxiety. Anxiety,...
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Kirsten Johansen
Sep 17, 20229 min read
Farrah Fawcett Saved Your Life-Part Three
It is the spring of 2011. At the completion of your treatment for stage 3B anal cancer, your pain, burns, and opiate addiction are at...
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