EP 145: How Your Relationships Literally Shape and Reshape Your Brain

EP 148: If You're Feeling Lost, Here's What To Do

We all run from feeling lost, but what if clarity is actually found on the other side of embracing it, not avoiding it? In this episode, Amanda shares a perspective shift that came to her on her back porch this summer, and introduces a simple mindset tool that can completely change how you experience uncertainty without changing your circumstances. KEY TAKEAWAYS: * Why our usual responses to feeling lost tend to keep us stuck rather than help us move forward * The "explorer" mindset shift: what it looks like to get curious about a lost season instead of running from it * Why what we notice in a lost season often reveals more about who we are becoming than where we're headed * How spiritual formation and feeling lost can coexist, and why God cares more about who you're becoming than the direction you're headed RESOURCES: Summber Survival Kit [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/fpvjx78dqe] Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack [https://amandakfoust.substack.com/] Wake Up To Your Life Coaching [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/] Highest Potential Planner [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner] Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations] Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co [support@wakeuptoyourlife.co] and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ [https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/]

EP 147: What You've Been Avoiding Might Be the Way Through — with Emily Bailey

In this special interview episode, Amanda sits down with fellow coach and dear friend Emily Bailey to talk about what happens when the thing you've been running from becomes impossible to avoid. Emily shares her own journey of recognizing that she had been labeling lack as dangerous, and how changing her relationship with it gave her a freedom she had been chasing in all the wrong places. KEY TAKEAWAYS: * Why labeling an emotion as "dangerous" keeps you stuck in avoidance, and what it looks like to finally stop running from it and change your relationship around it * The three-part process Emily used to move through lack and how you can apply this to whatever you have been avoiding * Why dignity isn't something you earn when you reach your goal; it belongs to you right now, in the middle of the process * The difference between being rescued from a hard season and moving through it with intention  RESOURCES: Emily Bailey's Sacred Disruption Summit: https://www.wholeandwild.com/sacred-disruption-summit [https://www.wholeandwild.com/sacred-disruption-summit] Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations] Wake Up To Your Life Coaching [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/] Highest Potential Planner [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner] Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co [support@wakeuptoyourlife.co] and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ [https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/]

EP 146: The Real Reason You Feel Disconnected From the Life You've Built

You're doing everything right, and something still feels off. That's not a motivation problem or a discipline problem; it's a self-leadership problem. In this episode, Amanda digs into the brain science behind why so many people feel disconnected from the lives they've worked so hard to build, and walks you through four tools to start filling back up. Key Takeaways: * Most high performers are pouring out constantly without refilling, and personal development rarely teaches you how to stay full in real time without an elaborate self-care routine. * Self-leadership is actively developing a confident sense of who you are, taking ownership of what you do, and being intentional about how you grow and how you're feeling about your life is directly connected to it * Neuroplasticity means the patterns you've been running don't have to keep running, but rewiring requires awareness, repetition, and time * Discover 4 tools that you can use in just a few minutes a day to fill yourself back up. Resources: Wake Up To Your Life Coaching [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/] Highest Potential Planner [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner] Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations] Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack [https://amandakfoust.substack.com/] Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co [support@wakeuptoyourlife.co] and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ [https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/]

EP 145: How Your Relationships Literally Shape and Reshape Your Brain

The people in your life aren't just affecting how you feel, they're influencing the actual physical structure of your brain. In this episode, we explore Interpersonal Neurobiology, a framework developed by Dr. Dan Siegel, and what it reveals about why our relationships are one of the most powerful forces shaping who we become. Key Takeaways: * What Interpersonal Neurobiology is and why the connection between your mind, brain, and relationships matters more than you think * The two signs that integration has broken down in your life, and why neither one is a personal failure * Why the relationships you had in early childhood are still influencing how you connect with people today * How to become someone whose presence actually integrates and calms the people around you * What Scripture has always said about community  and how it lines up with what neuroscience is only now catching up to Resources: Subscribe and Follow Amanda's Substack [https://amandakfoust.substack.com/] Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations] Wake Up To Your Life Coaching [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/] Highest Potential Planner [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner] Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co [support@wakeuptoyourlife.co] and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ [https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/]

EP 144: The Power of Intentional Remembering: What Brain Science Says About Memory and Healing

Have you ever wondered why certain memories feel so loud while others fade? In this episode, we get into what neuroscience is revealing about how memory actually works, and why it might be one of the most hopeful things you'll ever learn about your brain. You'll discover why your brain doesn't store memories like a video recorder, what happens neurologically when you remember with intention, and how this brain science connects to what God has been telling us about the power of remembering all along. If you've ever felt like your past is working against you, this episode is going to shift something for you. Key Takeaways: * Why memory is a reconstructive process and what that means for your healing journey * The brain science behind why emotional experiences are encoded more deeply than ordinary ones * Why what you rehearse is what you wire, and how to start directing that with intention * The difference between the facts of what happened and the meaning your brain attaches to it  * Four practical tools to begin the practice of intentional remembering in your everyday life Resources: Take the FREE Where Am I Asleep To My Life Quiz at wakeuptoyourlife.co [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co] Download the FREE Expectation vs. Reality Workbook [https://wakeuptoyourlife.myflodesk.com/expectations] Wake Up To Your Life Coaching [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/] Highest Potential Planner [https://www.wakeuptoyourlife.co/highestpotentialplanner] Email support@wakeuptoyourlife.co [support@wakeuptoyourlife.co] and let's connect! Follow along on the 'gram @wakeuptoyourlife_ [https://www.instagram.com/wakeuptoyourlife_/] Articles referenced: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-memory-works-and-doesnt/ [https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/12/how-memory-works-and-doesnt/]  https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/how-our-most-meaningful-memories-are-made [https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/how-our-most-meaningful-memories-are-made]