Kate Hastings Show

If you’ve been feeling stuck, heavy, or low-key frustrated with yourself… this might be why. You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You’re just in a cycle. Numb. Avoid. Repeat. You scroll when you should act. You overthink instead of move. You wait for clarity and call it wisdom. You call it peace but deep down, you know it’s something else. This week’s episode is about The Comfort Cycle. We break down why you keep defaulting to ease, how it’s rewiring your nervous system, and what it’s really costing you in energy, identity, and momentum. You don’t need to shame yourself. You need to wake up. Not with pressure, but with clarity. This is your reset button.   Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram:   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes 🌐 Website: 📱 Text 24/7 or Call: 305-748-2517 📧 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com 📲 Instagram: Coach Kate for 10% off

Manufactured weakness is the kind of limitation that isn’t inherited or imposed—but created.It’s the result of avoiding growth, rejecting responsibility, normalizing dysfunction, or surrounding yourself with standards low enough to never confront your potential. It’s weakness by design. Not because you couldn’t be strong—but because you’ve repeatedly chosen comfort over courage, survival over truth, and habits that serve emotions over values. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram:   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes 🌐 Website: 📱 Text 24/7 or Call: 305-748-2517 📧 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com 📲 Instagram: Coach Kate for 10% off

If you’re still complaining, you’re not processing—you’re practicing. If you’re still playing the victim, you’re not stuck—you’re staying. Let that land. This episode is a wake-up call for anyone who's been running the same emotional loop, telling the same story, and calling it healing. The truth? Most people don’t need more time—they need more ownership. What looks like “processing” is often just avoidance in disguise. What feels like “overwhelm” is usually a lack of leadership—internal and external. This isn’t about dismissing your pain. It’s about refusing to let it become your identity. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram:   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes 🌐 Website: 📱 Text 24/7 or Call: 305-748-2517 📧 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com 📲 Instagram: Coach Kate for 10% off

Most people don’t fail because they lack vision. They fail because they never trained themselves to execute when the hype wears off. Clarity is cheap. Discipline is rare. The gap between what you say you want and what you actually follow through on is where most people stay stuck. Not because they can’t—but because they’re still negotiating with distraction, perfection, or public opinion. Vision doesn’t need more excitement. It needs a system that holds when motivation drops off. The people who finish aren’t the ones who feel the most—it’s the ones who move with precision, especially when no one’s watching. If you can’t execute in silence, you’ll never hold the weight of what you say you want. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram:   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes 🌐 Website: 📱 Text 24/7 or Call: 305-748-2517 📧 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com 📲 Instagram: Coach Kate for 10% off

You don’t just end up in a dark place—you’re slowly trained into it. Conditioned by chaos, shaped by trauma, and wired for survival. In this episode, I’m breaking down what actually pulls us into darkness—and how to get out. We’ll talk about the nervous system, trauma identity, shame, and why pain becomes familiar—even addictive. I share the deeper psychology behind survival mode, and walk you through how to start reconditioning your life for safety, stability, and truth. You’ll hear parts of my own story: growing up with a father struggling with addiction and mental illness, developing an eating disorder as a child, staying in abusive relationships that mirrored the instability I was raised in—and what it really looked like to break free. This isn’t just a story of struggle; it’s a roadmap for healing. If you’re tired of performing strength, clinging to control, or confusing survival with purpose, this episode will show you what it takes to release the old, reclaim your identity, and rise. You’re not broken—you were trained by pain. Kate Hastings | Mental Health Coach 🌐 Website: 📩 Email: info@katehastingspodcast.com 📱 Instagram:   Mission Med+ | Dr. Kristin Oakes 🌐 Website: 📱 Text 24/7 or Call: 305-748-2517 📧 Email: koakes@missionmedus.com 📲 Instagram: Coach Kate for 10% off