Coaches Corner: My Annual New Year’s Ritual

The New Year is just around the corner along with the tradition of making resolutions, which are usually promises to do something “more, better, or different.” Most of us start the New Year with the greatest of intentions, yet by March (or even by the second week in January) we may not find ourselves so…

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Coaches Corner: Storytime with Christine: Chasing Ribbons

In this episode you will reflect through storytelling as you journey with three young girls who learn to earn their “ribbons” — tokens of love, safety, and worth — through perfectionism, people-pleasing, control, and self-sacrifice. Each ribbon becomes a mask, a medal, a memory… until they begin to question what they’ve really won. If you’ve…

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Coaches Corner: Building Deeper Connection Through Authentic Communication with Dr Susan Campbell

In this episode, I sit down with renowned relationship coach and author Dr. Susan Campbell for a real, practical conversation about communication, connection, and what it takes to create emotionally honest relationships. We talk about the most common patterns that keep partners from truly hearing each other, how to move from defensiveness to curiosity, and…

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Coaches Corner: Why We Fawn & People Please with Dr. Ingrid Clayton

The survival strategy of fawning may have once kept you safe, but it can leave you disconnected, resentful, and exhausted. In this powerful conversation, Dr. Ingrid Clayton, psychologist and author of Fawning: The Cost of People-Pleasing and the Courage to Break Free, joins Christine to unpack trauma and specifically the trauma response of fawning. …

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Coaches Corner: The Gut-Brain Paradox with Dr. Steven Gundry

Steven R. Gundry, MD is a world-renowned heart surgeon turned nutrition pioneer. Once the chairman of cardiothoracic surgery at Loma Linda University, he now focuses on reversing modern diseases through the power of food and the microbiome. He’s the bestselling author of The Plant Paradox series, Unlocking the Keto Code, and his latest book The…

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Coaches Corner: The Biology of Healing with Dr. Aimie Apigian

Aimie Apigian, MD, MS, MPH, is a trainer, speaker and physician, double board-certified in preventive and addiction medicine with masters degrees in biochemistry and public health. Beyond her conventional medical and surgical training, Dr. Aimie has training in Psychosomatic Medicine, Functional Medicine, and Mental Health Nutrition. Her extensive training in trauma therapies, including the Instinctual…

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