Momma Trauma: Recent Episodes
Katherine Kuhn
Many women suffer in silence feeling ashamed or guilty to share their true feelings about their relationship with their mother. How do I know? Because I was one of them! The emotional scars it left behind show up later in life with a vengeance. On this show, I'll be teaching you how to take ownership and responsibility for your thoughts, feelings, actions and results. Most importantly, you'll learn how to take your power back. The trauma of your past does not define you. You are a child of God and your life is deeply rooted in love and light, full of abundance and joy, peace and prosperity. Join me each week for inspiration, encouragement and revelation as I share coaching tips, tricks and strategies you'll be able to apply to your life immediately!
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Change is scary because it's unknown. Change is scary because it's different. Change is scary because it's uncomfortable.
Our brain's job is to keep us alive and it's been doing this job since the beginning of time. Our brain want's to keep us safe. When it's challenged with unknown change it works hard to move us away from the pain and toward pleasure.
To effectively change, you must control your mind. You create your reality with the words you speak and the thoughts you think. Your thoughts create your feelings, your feelings create your actions and your actions create your results.
In today's episode I'm teaching you how to take control of the sentences you tell yourself and learn to tell yourself sentences that are powerful, direct, and give your mind clear direction of what you want and how you want to get it!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
RESPONSE. ABILITY.
To RESPOND to something means to verbally return an answer or physically react in response.
ABILITY is our possession of the means or skill to do something.
Responsibility, therefore, means our ability to possess or have the means or skills to verbally return an answer or physically act in response.
When we place blame on other people or on our circumstances, we act out like we have no other choice.
However, when we perfect our ability to respond to how we feel and make choices for how we want to feel we end up so much more empowered.
We get to show up as the best version of ourselves we can possibly be instead of just existing in a world where we feel like everyone and everything is out to get us.
When we perfect our ability to respond we are also perfecting our ability to feel our feelings without acting out to avoid, distract, or blame others.
Being an adult requires more effort and significantly more responsibility. But it's totally worth it to feel empowered over yourself and your life.
It's an amazing feeling to know you have the power to think, feel and respond completely independently from another person.
Explore how you can perfect your ability to respond as an emotional adult.
How can you stop blaming?
If you could do this, how would that change the results you're getting?
Tune in TODAY as I share this simple, effective, but extraordinarily powerful way to become the BEST VERSION of you beginning RIGHT NOW!
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How much easier would your life be if you loved yourself?
Too many women live their life with low self-esteem.
Too many other women are simply indifferent toward themselves.
When was the last time you can honestly say you took time to care for yourself?
Too often, as women, we place so much pressure on ourselves, or we expect way too much of ourselves.
We are constantly working hard toward our goals, and we beat ourselves up if we are anything but perfect in that pursuit.
Is it any wonder we often feel exhausted, defeated, and depressed?
How would your life be different if you spent time caring for yourself?
Think it's impossible? Think again!
In today's episode, I'm sharing my secret formula for a happier, healthier, and more fulfilled life. A life that will emanate from you and affect everyone you interact with.
Let's get you from here to there! I know you've got 10 minutes, let's transform your life!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Success is a habit, sure.
But to pick up this habit, you have to have the right mindset.
You can force things and hang on to your old mindset while adopting new habits, but these eventually wear off.
Successful people do certain things consistently, and that's why they achieve a higher degree of success than most other people.
But there's more to it than that.
It's not just a matter of doing certain things over and over again given certain circumstances.
Listen today as I share the 10 key mindsets to adopt to achieve extraordinary success in business and life.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
What's the first thing you need to do to become more successful?
You may be thinking, buy a book or sign up for a free course.
Or maybe you believe you need to find the right guru or mentor to achieve success.
Those can be important components to success, but there's actually something more fundamental and basic that you need to do first.
How do I know?
Because most people don't do this first and although they take many steps to set themselves up for success they end up with nothing.
Why?
Because they built their empire of change on a foundation of sand.
They get paralyzed by self-fulfilling prophecies and that becomes their future.
It isn't grand or dramatic, but once you master this one skill, you'll be well on your way to joining the ranks of some of the most successful women you know!
You don't want to miss this life changing information!
Tune in TODAY and learn this one basic element ALL SUCCESSFUL WOMEN DO FIRST to become more successful!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Every busy woman is at risk of burnout.
We take our Smartphones with us every where we go, even to the bathroom!
We work late hours. We miss family events - and even when we are present we're on the back porch, hurriedly checking emails on our devices or taking phone calls.
But let's get one thing straight!
It's not the amount of work we do that causes burnout. It's that feeling that we're never 'off duty'.
It's having our attention permanently divided between work, being a mom, wife, daughter, sister, etc.
Competition for our time is fiercer than ever. We're under constant pressure from a million distractions.
It's easy to see why so many women are stressed out and not as successful as they'd hoped to be.
It feels like a trap. And it is!
Taking care of our mind, body, and spirit will not only help our relationships but it also causes us to feel happier and more successful, too.
But why can't we ever seem to do this?
What's stopping us from nurturing ourselves well enough to finally achieve everything we dream of - including a healthy, well-rested body and a mind sparkling with creativity and joy?
Tune in TODAY as I share how to DITCH YOUR SELF-SABOTAGING HABITS for good so that you can finally achieve your Big Goals & Big Dreams!
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You were born fearless. How do I know?
Have you ever seen a baby worried about what other people think of it?
Of course not!
Babies think they are the most loveable, perfect thing on the planet and they expect you to swoon over them 24-7!
And as a baby, you were the same way!
The problem is, at some point along the way you've realized bringing your dreams into reality isn't as easy as you first imagined.
That's when your fears from childhood and limiting beliefs creep in and get in the way of achieving your dreams.
The key to solving this problem is to find solutions rather than letting your emotions and self-doubt get in the way.
So how do you do this?
No worries! You've come to the right place.
Listen in today as I share my entire process I use to uncover your fears and clear them away for good so that you can confidently step into the woman you were always meant to be!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Mother's day is traditionally a very happy day full of love, laughter, flowers and sappy cards.
If you were lucky enough to be blessed with a loving ,caring mother, this is a wonderful day for you filled with family and good memories.
However for many women, it's literally the worst holiday of the year.
Why?
Because many women are aching to be a mother themselves.
They're not able to conceive or they've experienced multiple miscarriages.
Many women are grieving the death of a child, or they're grieving the death of their mother.
Many women have been abused by their mother.
Or had a strained relationship with her mother due to drugs, prison, mental illness, arguments, or just family conflict.
Or maybe it's just the emotional trauma and exhaustion of being around their mom that's enough to put a damper on the day and wish it didn't exist.
For so many women, mothers day can be a miserable day because it reminds them of something they're missing, no longer have, or will never have in their life.
Mother's Day makes many women feel incomplete, less worthy, and inferior.
And for good reason!
If this sounds like you you're in the right place!
TODAY, I'm sharing the ONE thing you can do right now to not only transform your Mother's Day, it will transform your Every Day.
Whether you're grieving the loss of a child,
you're sad because you're not able to have children,
you're grieving the loss of your mother,
you're struggling with a toxic mother, or
you've been beating yourself up for not having the mother you've always wanted,
Tune in TODAY, because I'm going to show you how it's possible to free yourself from these limiting emotions, and live a happy life now!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Imagine for a moment that you have a twisted nodded, frayed and very delicate ball of yarn.
At the center of the yarn is a hollow sphere that holds all of your hopes and dreams.
Now imagine that all you have to do to make your dreams come true is to untwist and work out the knots with lots of love and compassion for that delicate yarn.
Would you do it?
If you knew without a doubt that you'd eventually get to that sphere that holds all your dreams.
Would you work at it a little bit each and every day and never give up because you have a guarantee that you're going to make it to that dream sphere someday?
Would you start all over again with grace and compassion when the yarn gets tangled up because the cat or your kid got ahold of it?
Now imagine that ball of yarn is your real life.
Those twists and knots and delicate spots are your fears, your doubts and your self-judgements that are holding you back from achieving your dreams.
What if life did come with a guarantee that if you untwist your fears, unknot your doubts and have compassion for yourself that you'd eventually be able to live your dream life?
Would you do it?
Well I'm here to tell you to keep going when you're scared and doubtful.
Have compassion for yourself when you want to self-judge because the way I see it life does offer a guarantee.
When you shoot for the moon even if you miss you'll land among the stars
I believe we all have the ability to experience our dream life.
The problem is most of us don't want to feel bad. But what a feeling bad is part of the experience?
What if getting really good at feeling bad is the answer to living your best life?
I believe that it is.
And I believe when we learn how to master our emotions, that's when, when we get to experience our dream life.
Listen in today as I share the top three purposeful emotions to master and how to master them to live your dream life!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Mom guilt is real. If your a mom you know this!
In 2010 I had recently gotten divorced, moved 50 miles from anyone I knew and took a job even further away.
I had a serious case of mom guilt!
In today's episode I'm sharing my story of how I battled and overcame the most extreme feelings of mom guilt I'd ever experienced.
Tune in ... I hope it helps you as much as it's helped me!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Some people learn early in life if they don't do what someone they care about wants them to do, that person withdraws their love. And the fear of losing that love results in giving from a place of resistance, resentment and fear.
Similarly, some of us were raised with parents who fought or yelled a lot. Now as an adult, you may fear interactions where someone may get angry with you if you share how you truly feel or tell them no.
Why does all this matter? Because constantly being afraid of someone else's reaction keeps you in a place of resistance.
Fear of losing someones love,
fear of other's anger,
fear of loneliness,
fear of losing yourself,
guilt,
paybacks,
and approval are all reasons we resist. We don't want to feel a negative emotion.
The problem is, we resist to the point we feel unappreciated, that grows into resentment that can lead to depression.
But getting someone to behave or respond in a way that makes you happy never works. Instead, learn the skill of allowing any emotion from a place of compassion and love in order to take your power back and feel more in control of your life.
Listen in today as I teach you how to stop resisting negative emotions, break through blocks that have been holding you back from living your best life, and use your emotions as tools to create whatever it is you want most in life.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
We believe what we believe based on things that happened in our past. However, a belief is just a thought. And our thoughts create our feelings, actions and results.
So if you do nothing, your past beliefs will create your current results. You will simply keep creating the same limitations of your past and confirm you are limited.
In order to create a new future, you must create a new belief that requires you to believe something you've never believed before.
And that's great news, because you get to believe whatever you want with whatever words you want.
The challenge is, how do you choose those words and create your future on purpose?
How do you believe something you don't yet believe?
In today's episode, I'm breaking down the fundamentals of a belief and sharing my top three tips to creating new beliefs in order for you to step boldly into your future with eyes wide open.
Get ready and excited to say hello to the brand new future you, today!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Do you continually beat yourself up for mistakes you made in the past? Do you constantly worry about what's going to happen tomorrow?
My anxiety started when I was young. I don't know exactly when, I just know it's always been there. Looking back now, I can clearly see where it came from.
As most habits we pick up, mine came from my mom. She was always anxious, worried, stressed, overworked, and because that's all I knew, that's what I became too.
Over the year's and with certified training, I've learned how to calm my anxiety by observing and being aware of my thoughts. I created a guide to help you if you struggle with anxiety and overthinking to learn how to overcome this disempowering feeling.
Today on the show I'm sharing two proven and powerful strategies to help you overcome your anxiety and anxious thoughts. These strategies have worked for me and all of my clients. Take a listen and learn how to knock those self-defeating thoughts out of the park!
To download the guide go to: www.katherinekuhn.com.
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Change hurts, growth is painful, and leveling up your life can be terrifying. Why? Because your new life is uncertain. I mean, how do you let go of your old comfortable life when the unknown can be so scary?
No worries my friend! I'm here to help!
If you're finally ready to level up your life, today's the day!
In today's episode, I'm sharing with you my top three tips to embrace the discomfort that comes with growth so that you are able to evolve and get inspired to make your dreams come true!
Get full show notes and more information here: https://www.katherinekuhn.com/podcast
Ashley K. Pittman is a best-selling author, speaker and podcaster. She's the author of, I Can Breathe Again where she shares her experience of losing her twin son and daughter due to preterm labor.
Ashley is the compiler of the bestseller, Don't Struggle In Silence - I am the V.I.C.T.O.R. book collection, which includes the story of six women and their experiences with pregnancy loss and their healing journey.
She's been featured on local news stations, Fox 59, WRTV six w T H R 13 and national news stations, NBC, CBS, and Fox 34. Ashley has been published in SHEEN, Formidable Women and VEU magazine.
She's been a guest on several syndicated podcast and radio shows such as Indianapolis 106.7 the Nikki Rich Show and Sisters and Loss Podcast.
Ashley's purpose is to inspire and encourage others with her story and deliver the gift of hope.
I'm so excited to have Ashley on the show today to share her inspirational story of triumph over tribulation!
Why is it so difficult to set clear boundaries with your mom? Why do you feel guilty for asking her not to come over on the days when the kids schedules are really busy or when you work late and just want to relax?
In this episode I'm sharing what boundaries are and why you need them in your life. Especially with your mom!
Listen in to learn why you struggle to set boundaries and how to set them from a place of love and respect,
What are your expectations of your mom? If you had the perfect mother, what would you wish for?
There's nothing wrong with you for wanting your mother to be a "good mom".
So why do you feel so frustrated and hurt?
Listen in to learn why you're vision of a perfect mother is actually causing you pain and how to solve the problem and deepen your relationship.
For many daughter's it's very hard to recognize and understand the connection between the pain and unhappiness you feel and you're mothers treatment of you. Why is that? Because as daughters we have a longing for our mother's love and approval. We want to feel accepted by our mothers, we want our mother's to be proud of us. It's the longing and desire to feel loved and cared for by your mother that can dull the pain you feel when your mother says or does something hurtful or rejects you. As daughters we are very quick to accept the abuse because we want our mothers love. The truth is as daughters we are hardwired to need our mom for survival, our mom on the other hand is not hardwired to need us for survival. And while we like to believe that being a "good mother" is something that comes naturally and automatically, it's not.