Moving back in with family can awaken old wounds faster than years of personal growth can prepare us for. In this first coaching episode of 2026, Christine supports Sarah, who recently returned to the United States after six years abroad and is temporarily living with her parents. What she expected to be a short transition has turned into a deep emotional reckoning with childhood patterns, triggers, and the urge to "fix" family dynamics.

Christine helps Sarah understand how protector parts, formed in childhood, take over when old environments reactivate unresolved trauma. Together, they explore how to release long-held anger safely, set boundaries that are actually enforceable, and begin reparenting the inner child with compassion rather than control.

If family interactions leave you feeling dysregulated, angry, or guilty, this episode will help you see those reactions through a new lens and give you tools to stop trying to change your parents and start changing how you care for yourself.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Do you feel like all your growth disappears the moment you go home?
• Are you the family fixer, peacekeeper, or emotional mediator?
• Do you struggle with guilt or rage after spending time with your parents?
• Are you trying to set "boundaries" that you cannot actually control?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• The urge to fix family dynamics often comes from a childhood protector part trying to create safety.
• What feels like "I can't help it" is usually a trauma-based habit, not a true lack of choice.
• Asking someone to change is a request, not a boundary. Boundaries are about what you will do.
• Rage is often stored grief from unmet childhood needs and must be safely released.
• Your inner child learns to trust you only through consistency, not intention.

How to Deepen the Work:

• When you feel the impulse to fix, pause and thank that part for trying to protect you.
• Create a release valve for anger such as screaming into a pillow, shaking your body, or release writing.
• Practice leaving triggering situations instead of confronting them in the moment.
• Reparent your inner child through consistent safety rather than promises of change.
• Ask yourself: "What can I do right now that I actually control?"

Coaching with Christine

Christine currently has just two remaining openings in her private one-on-one coaching practice. She has been coaching individuals since 2004 and only works with a small number of clients at a time to provide deep, personalized support.

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In this episode, I explore the deeper spiritual and emotional invitation of a ONE year, especially for those of us who have already done a lot of healing, awareness work, and nervous system regulation — and now find ourselves waiting to feel "ready."

We talk about why you don't need certainty to begin, how starting again does not erase your growth, and why this year asks for aligned action rather than perfect clarity.

If you've been feeling a quiet nudge to begin something new — a conversation, a boundary, a creation, or a new way of being — this episode is an invitation to trust what wants to move through you now.

This is not the year to wait until you feel ready.
This is the year to begin in devotion to your becoming.

In this deeply moving session, Christine supports Sheylee—a devoted mother who is pregnant with her seventh child and struggling under the weight of shame, overwhelm, and fear. After believing she was done having children, this unexpected pregnancy has stirred painful emotions, identity confusion, and unresolved relational patterns in her partnership.

Christine helps her gently unravel the layers of guilt, inner criticism, and pressure she has carried for years. Together, they explore how to hold two truths at once: loving a child while not feeling joyful about the circumstances, being grateful and overwhelmed at the same time, and honoring both human emotion and spiritual perspective.

If you've ever felt shame for how you feel, feared getting "stuck" in a hard season, or struggled to access compassion for yourself, this conversation offers relief, grounding, and a renewed sense of permission to be honest about your emotional reality.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Is there something in your life you believe you "should" feel happy about—but you don't?
• Do you fear that if you let yourself feel your emotions, you won't be able to stop?
• Do you often feel unsupported—emotionally, spiritually, or relationally?
• Are you harder on yourself than anyone else is?
• Do you hear an inner critic more loudly than your own compassion?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Shame about how you feel is often more damaging than the feelings themselves.
• It is possible—and healthy—to hold two truths at once ("both/and").
• Emotional release is not falling apart; it's moving energy through the body.
• Many women confuse caretaking with connection or worthiness.
• Inner critics often come from childhood patterns of control, hypervigilance, or judgment.
• Spiritual support (God, Mother Mary, or a higher loving presence) can hold us when people cannot.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Practice the both/and: "I love this baby AND I am overwhelmed."
• Create space each day to sit with your feelings rather than suppress them.
• Replace harsh self-talk with compassion through simple practices like Ho'oponopono:
  I'm sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you. I love you.
• Call on unseen spiritual support when human support feels unavailable.
• Identify where old survival strategies are still active—and begin updating them with gentler internal dialogue.
• Explore ways to communicate needs in your partnership with clarity rather than collapse.

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Social Media + Resources:

• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts, including Coach's Corner
• Instagram: @ChristineHassler | @SacredUnionCouples
• Facebook: Christine Hassler
• Book: Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on Christine's services
• Apply to be coached live on the show: christinehassler.com/waitlist

In this heartfelt coaching session, Christine works with Jemma, who feels confused and heartbroken after believing that God led her into a relationship that ultimately ended in disappointment. Jemma wrestles with feelings of self-blame, loss, and spiritual doubt as she questions whether she misunderstood divine guidance—or was somehow being punished.

Christine helps her see the situation through a lens of truth and compassion. Together, they explore how childhood wounds shape patterns of self-sacrifice, and how spiritual confusion often arises when we project human expectations onto God. Jemma learns that she hasn't "lost herself"—she was simply operating from childhood survival strategies, and she's now being invited to evolve through love, loss, and faith.

If you've ever felt like the universe led you somewhere painful, this episode will help you find meaning, peace, and trust in a bigger plan.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Have you ever felt misled by God or the universe?
• Do you blame yourself when relationships don't work out?
• Do you confuse caretaking or fawning with true connection?
• Are you interpreting disappointment as a sign you did something wrong?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• We often project human disappointment and abandonment onto God.
• "Losing yourself" is actually slipping back into old survival patterns.
• Every relationship can be a stepping stone toward deeper healing.
• Grief and progress can coexist—healing is not linear.
• Compassion for younger parts of ourselves softens relational patterns.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Reflect on how childhood shaped your approach to intimacy and caretaking.
• Replace "I lost myself" with "I shifted into coping—and now I'm returning to myself."
• Journal about how this relationship moved you forward rather than backward.
• Spend time nurturing your inner child—the part of you longing for safety.
• Engage with God or your spiritual source as a loving presence, not a judge.

Sponsor: Cured Nutrition
Christine recommends Flow Gummies from Cured Nutrition for focused, sustained energy without jitters. Made with Lion's Mane, ginkgo, and green coffee extract, Flow supports mental clarity and smooth, balanced energy.

Get 20% off when you subscribe at curednutrition.com/overit with code OVERIT.

Coaching with Christine:
Christine now has openings in two coaching pathways:
• A VIP six-month mentorship for deep, ongoing transformation
• A focused 10-week laser container for targeted support

Apply at christinehassler.com/coaching-christine.

Social Media + Resources:

• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts, including Coach's Corner
• Instagram: @ChristineHassler | @SacredUnionCouples
• Facebook: Christine Hassler
• Book: Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on Christine's services
• Apply to be coached live on the show: christinehassler.com/waitlist

This story will help you put down the heavy "perfect jar" you've been carrying and reconnect to the part of you that was always enough.

In this powerful coaching session, Christine supports Nina, a high-achieving woman who has learned to rely on herself since childhood—and now wonders why love feels so hard to receive. Despite years of healing and success, she finds herself attracting men who are kind but lack direction, and she struggles to understand whether her independence is strength or self-protection.

Christine helps Nina uncover the difference between healthy masculine energy and overfunctioning rooted in trauma. Together, they explore how early loss and betrayal created hypervigilance, and how surrendering to trust—especially through a deeper spiritual relationship—can open the door to healthy, reciprocal love.

If you've ever been told you're "too strong," or you find it easier to do everything yourself than to receive support, this episode will help you reframe that pattern with compassion and start allowing love in.

Consider / Ask Yourself:

• Do you relate to overfunctioning or feeling like the one everyone relies on?
• Is receiving help or love uncomfortable for you?
• Do you believe you need to have everything handled to feel safe?
• Have you confused control with confidence or independence with strength?

Key Insights and A-HAs:

• Overfunctioning is often a trauma response, not healthy masculine energy.
• When we've been hurt by men, we often project that hurt onto "the masculine" as a whole.
• Safety must come before surrender—your nervous system needs evidence that love can be safe.
• Healing happens in stages; each relationship can serve as a stepping stone toward healthy partnership.
• True surrender isn't weakness—it's a return to trust, faith, and divine alignment.

How to Deepen the Work:

• Reflect on early memories that taught you to "handle it all" and what beliefs they created.
• Practice receiving in small, everyday ways (compliments, help, rest).
• Replace "I need to fix it" with "I'm open to support."
• Pray or journal: "God, help me align with my most loving and healthy match."
• Remember that trust—both spiritual and relational—is a muscle built over time.

Sponsor: Cured Nutrition
Christine recommends Flow Gummies from Cured Nutrition for clean, sustained energy and mental clarity. Formulated with Lion's Mane, green coffee extract, and ginkgo, Flow helps boost focus without jitters or crashes.

Get 20% off when you subscribe at curednutrition.com/overit with code OVERIT.

Upcoming Program:
Christine's Emerge Program is now open! This 3-month embodiment experience is for anyone who has done the inner work but still feels stuck. Learn to integrate awareness into embodied confidence and flow.

Join at christinehassler.com/emerge2025.

Social Media + Resources:

• Christine Hassler — Take a Coaching Assessment
• Christine Hassler Podcasts, including Coach's Corner
• Instagram: @ChristineHassler | @SacredUnionCouples
• Facebook: Christine Hassler
• Book: Expectation Hangover by Christine Hassler
• Email: jill@christinehassler.com — For information on Christine's services
• Apply to be coached live on the show: christinehassler.com/waitlist