The Love, Her Podcast: Breathwork, Healing and Coming Home to Yourself

What Happens When You Stop Pretending

What if the most powerful thing you could do was simply be yourself? In this episode, Laura shares what has actually happened in her own life as she has stepped more and more into her true self — the beautiful things, and the hard things too. You'll hear about the moment she realized she had spent an entire weekend performing a version of herself for a group of women she wanted to impress — and what that experience taught her about the difference between fitting in and truly belonging. Laura also gets honest about the harder side of personal growth — what happens when the people in your life struggle to accept the new, more confident you — and why that reaction is almost never really about you. In this episode you'll learn: * Why showing up as your true self actually builds confidence faster than anything else * The difference between fitting in and belonging — and why it matters * How your nervous system responds when you stop performing and start being real * What to do when people in your life resist your growth * How authenticity attracts deeper, more meaningful connections This week's challenge: The next time someone asks for a favor or your opinion, pause before you respond. If no is what your body is telling you, simply say no. Let yourself own it. That's where confidence begins. 💫 Work With Laura If you are ready to start reconnecting to your true self, Laura currently has limited openings for 1:1 coaching. ⁠ [https://calendly.com/laurakistnercoaching/60-minute-coaching-session] ✨Schedule a Free Discovery Call Here [https://calendly.com/laurakistnercoaching/60-minute-coaching-session] 🌿 Join Me at Exhale: A Women’s Event Laura will be speaking and leading a HypnoBreathwork session on June 13th. This event is designed to help women reconnect to themselves through healing modalities, community, rest, and reflection. ✨ ⁠⁠Learn More + Register [https://www.croixviewfarm.com/event-details/exhale-a-womens-event]

The Exhaustion of Performing Happiness

What happens when you spend years pretending you’re okay… when deep down, you’re drowning? In this deeply vulnerable episode, Laura opens up about the emotional exhaustion that comes from performing happiness, hiding your struggles, and trying to be the version of yourself you think everyone expects. From the outside, her life looked successful – a good marriage, healthy children, a doctorate degree, a career she worked hard for. But internally, she felt disconnected, numb, and completely lost from herself. This episode is an honest conversation about: * The hidden emotional cost of “holding it together” * Why burnout goes deeper than stress or responsibility * How emotional suppression keeps your nervous system stuck in survival mode * The loneliness of being “seen” but not truly known * Why vulnerability is actually one of the greatest forms of strength * How reconnecting to your true self changes everything * The first steps to stop performing and start embodying the real you Laura also guides listeners through a calming reflective exercise to help you reconnect with yourself and explore where you may be hiding behind a version of who you think you need to be. If you’ve ever smiled while silently struggling… If you’ve ever felt disconnected from yourself… If you’ve ever felt exhausted trying to be “okay” all the time… This episode is for you. ✨ The most powerful version of you is not the perfect version. ✨ It’s the honest version. ✨ The real version. And that is where true healing begins. — 💫 Work With Laura If you are ready to stop performing and start reconnecting to your true self, Laura currently has limited openings for 1:1 coaching. You can schedule a free discovery call here. [https://calendly.com/laurakistnercoaching/60-minute-coaching-session] 🌿 Join Me at Exhale: A Women’s Event Laura will be speaking and leading a HypnoBreathwork session on June 13th. This event is designed to help women reconnect to themselves through healing modalities, community, rest, and reflection. ✨ ⁠Learn More + Register [https://www.croixviewfarm.com/event-details/exhale-a-womens-event] 🎙️ Love The Love, Her Podcast? Please follow, rate, and share this episode with someone who needs the reminder that she doesn’t have to keep pretending she’s okay. 💌 Sign up [https://laura-kistner.mykajabi.com/newsletter-sign-up] for the Weekly Newsletter And remember: You don’t have to become someone else. You just have to come home to yourself.

The Power of Women Coming Home to Themselves

On this episode of The Love, Her Podcast, Laura sits down with Stephanie Larson, MSW, LCSW, LICSW, founder of Reflective Roots Psychotherapy & Healing, and Sara Haase, owner of Croix-View Farm and co-creators of Exhale: A Women’s Event – a beautiful experience designed to help women slow down, reconnect to themselves, and heal in community with other women. Together, they have an honest conversation about why so many women feel disconnected, overwhelmed, and stuck in survival mode… and how healing often begins with something much simpler than we think: slowing down, being seen, and reconnecting with ourselves. In this episode, we talk about: * The power of women supporting women * Why community is so healing for the nervous system * How burnout disconnects us from our true selves * The beauty and simplicity of modalities like: * Why healing doesn’t have to be complicated * Learning to create space to hear your intuition again * The emotional power of being in rooms with women who truly see you This conversation is warm, grounding, honest, and full of reminders that you do not have to heal alone. ✨ Healing happens in connection. ✨ Slowing down is powerful. ✨ And the real you is still in there waiting to be rediscovered. — 🌿 Join Us at Exhale: A Women’s Event Laura will be speaking and leading a HypnoBreathwork session on June 13th. This event is designed to help women reconnect to themselves through healing modalities, community, rest, and reflection. ✨ Early bird pricing is available through Memorial Day, so now is the perfect time to reserve your spot. ✨ Learn More + Register [https://www.croixviewfarm.com/event-details/exhale-a-womens-event] — 🎙️ Love this episode? Share it with a woman who needs permission to slow down, breathe deeply, and reconnect with herself. And remember: You are not meant to do this alone.🤍

You Don’t Have to Love Yourself Overnight

What if the reason affirmations haven’t worked for you is because you’re trying to jump too far, too fast? In today’s episode, Laura opens up about the moment she sat in front of a mirror five years ago and physically could not say the words, “I am beautiful.” What followed was not overnight self-love, but a slow and honest journey of learning how to stop bullying herself and start speaking to herself with more compassion. This episode is for the woman who feels disconnected from herself, exhausted from negative self-talk, and ready to begin changing the way she thinks, one believable thought at a time. Inside this episode: • Why extreme affirmations often don’t work • The connection between your thoughts and your nervous system • How negative self-talk keeps you stuck • The power of choosing believable, supportive thoughts • Why learning to love parts of yourself is enough to begin • A guided moment of reflection and inner connection You do not have to go from “I hate myself” to “I love myself” overnight. You just have to be willing to start speaking to yourself differently. Journal Prompt: What is one thing I genuinely love or admire about myself today? Ways to Connect & Work With Me: ✨ 1:1 Coaching Schedule Your Discovery Call [https://calendly.com/laurakistnercoaching/60-minute-coaching-session] ✨ Exhale: A Women’s Event | June 13 Join me for a powerful day of connection, healing, breathwork, and growth. Save Your Spot [https://www.croixviewfarm.com/event-details/exhale-a-womens-event] ✨ Join My Newsletter Community Get podcast updates, inspiration, and upcoming offerings delivered straight to your inbox. Newsletter Signup [https://laura-kistner.mykajabi.com/newsletter-sign-up] If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone you love and leave a review for the podcast. Your support helps this message reach more women who need it. “I’m learning to love parts of myself.” That gets to be your starting point too.

You're Not Humble. You're Hiding.

There was a version of Laura that genuinely believed everyone in her life deserved better. A better mom. A better woman. A better person. And she hid that pain behind a smile for years - performing confidence, showing up, saying all the right things - while silently falling apart on the inside. In this season three kickoff episode, Laura gets more vulnerable than ever before and opens up about why she kept herself so small for so many years — and why so many women do the same thing. If you've ever deflected a compliment, criticized yourself after an achievement, or told yourself that staying small was keeping you humble — this episode is for you. In this episode: * The exhausting performance of pretending to be confident * Why your inner critic isn't keeping you humble — it's keeping you small * The real difference between confidence and arrogance * A small but powerful moment that showed Laura her confidence was finally growing * A guided breath moment to help you reconnect to your own worth Key takeaway: You do not become humble by tearing yourself apart. You become grounded when you learn to stand fully in who you are. Resources + Links 🤝 Apply for 1:1 coaching (only 1 spot available): Schedule a free discovery call [https://calendly.com/laurakistnercoaching/60-minute-coaching-session] 💌 Join the newsletter: Sign Up Here [https://laura-kistner.mykajabi.com/newsletter-sign-up] 📱 Follow on Instagram: @laurakistnercoaching [https://www.instagram.com/laurakistnercoaching/]