Your body doesn’t “randomly” fall apart. Sometimes it raises its voice after years of being ignored. Sylvia Worsham sits down with author and coach Kristen Renee Appleby to unpack how chronic stress, perfectionism, and hiding our authentic selves can trap us in a fear-based survival loop and how that loop can show up as inflammation, panic, burnout, and even autoimmune disease.
If you’ve been pushing through exhaustion while telling yourself you’re fine, this conversation offers a different lens: what if your symptoms are communication, not betrayal?
Kristen shares her story as a high-achieving corporate professional and avid runner who faced a rheumatoid arthritis diagnosis, years of flare-ups, and the exhausting cycle of trying to “fix” symptoms without changing the foundation. We talk nervous system regulation, why imagination and purpose can feel impossible when you don’t feel safe, and the surprisingly powerful practice of returning to the present with “I’m safe right now.” Together, we explore how beliefs formed in early life become patterns that shape health, relationships, and career and how healing starts when we stop bypassing pain and learn to sit with it.
The conversation also connects physical wellness to financial wellness. Kristen explains how scarcity, avoidance, and low self-worth can create a “money wound,” and she breaks down how her book, Healing the Money Wound, applies the same rebuild framework through a focused 12-day reset, webinars, and community support. You’ll walk away with practical micro-shifts, a clearer understanding of the stress-inflammation connection, and real hope that change is possible one choice at a time.
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Transcript:
If you’ve ever struggled with fear, doubt, or worry, and wondering what your true purpose was all about, then this podcast is for you. In this show, your host, Sylvia Warsham, will interview elite experts and ordinary people that have created extraordinary lives. So here’s your host, Sylvia Warsham.
I’ve still got a lot of fire left.
Hey Lightbringers, it’s Sylvia Warsham. Welcome to Released Out Review Purpose. And today is Kristen Renee Appleby. And she is here to talk about healing and being authentic with yourself, healing an autumn immune disease. Almost overnight, instead of getting stuck on the root cause, she has a blueprint she’s going to share with us. She’s an author, she’s a coach, and she has learned a great deal about this space of burnout. When we come from those spaces, we tend to oftentimes get stuck in this vicious cycle. And sometimes what needs to happen is a major turning point for us to finally wake up and say, What am I doing here? Like, how did I land here? And is this really where I’m meant to be? And it sounds like for Kristen Renee, this was not where she was meant to be. And so she used that turning point to then shift the lens of her life into the space she’s currently in. So without further ado, thank you so much for joining us on Release. Thank you for having me. It’s an honor. It’s amazing to finally be able to connect with you, Kristen. And do do share with us how you landed in this space, being an author on your latest book, Healing the Money Wound, and doing all these webinars. Why is this so important for you?
Thank you. I heard a really good saying about, and this resonates is like teaching from your scars, right? Or being the person that you needed at that time. And it just, I I’ll get a tear saying it every time. It’s just where I’m supposed to be, but I had no idea this is where I was gonna be. Um, I was I I look back and see how, gosh, the years of pain and stuck joints were actually working for me, which is so wild to say. Yeah.
So I mean, to go back to the beginning and say it as succinctly as I can, um, I was the girl doing what I was supposed to do and on that kind of hassle treadmill, born and raised in the Bay Area, and you know, making a career in San Francisco, and you just you everyone’s in these amazing jobs, but you’re working a ton and you know, you’re keeping up with everyone else. With I had a great home, I had a great social life, great everything. But I knew deep down I was kind of pushing everything down to keep the train on the tracks. I didn’t want other people to know. I didn’t come from the most supportive of childhoods, right? Whereas I thought, you know, I saw these successful peers around me just seemed like they had great family lives. And I just kind of it was like I put on my hat every day, my like HR hat as I walked in the door, and I put my personality and me and my authenticity that was at the door the moment I walked into the office. And I I just thought that was the best way to keep going. And they say what goes down must come up. And for me, it uh what I believe it resulted in some a lot of inflammation in my body. So I’ve now unraveled it to understand why and kind of see how it was probably a slow buildup. And so I didn’t know it then, but I it ended up taking me 10 years to really learn to connect the dots, unravel it, and kind of rebuild from a healthier foundation.
That’s a tough space to find yourself in. And I know most of my listeners will be able to relate because a lot of them are top-performing women, that the modeling they receive, much like you were discussing, the lack of support that you receive growing up shapes your path because they shape the beliefs. And in coaching terms, we call them limiting beliefs because they limit your amazing capacity as a human being. We are born fearless. However, the modeling, the generational cycle of toxicity that gets passed on, all of that the mind takes in with no filter and thinks, well, this is normal, this is the way I need to be, I need to operate. And it’s no wonder we land in these spaces that are highly stressful environments because that’s the environment we grew up in. I grew up in similar circumstances with a very type A perfectionist father, big time high achiever, who his idea of success was if you don’t become a doctor or a lawyer, you’re basically not successful. And I was neither. So you can imagine how that dialogue went. Yeah. And I landed in corporate America to, in part, achieve and be closer to my dad because my dad was a medical doctor, a surgeon. And I came back to the area where he was practicing and became a pharmaceutical rep for Hoffman LaRoche and then moved on to Pfizer. But those are highly stressful environments, and the body can only take so much of this day in and day out where you’re just like shoving down, like you were talking about your own personality, your own authenticity. You’re not really stepping into your light because you don’t even know what your light is. So, how did you discover that light? And what autoimmune disease did you end up with? Oh, sure.
Well, it’s interesting because well, maybe I’ll start with the autoimmune disease and then talk about the light, because I see the light as you stop being chased by tigers, right? You stand up to the tigers chasing you. So I’m an avid runner. I like saying I am because I’m back. Um at the time, I was also an avid, avid runner. And again, you know, my dad said this to me one time and I scoffed, but now I’m like, he was on to something. He said, What is it you’re running from? And I was like, at the time, psh, I’m just running. No, I was. I was like, I wanted to feel good. I didn’t want to think. I just wanted to keep, if I just stayed in movement, I wouldn’t think or process or remember. Um, I it was like a double workout weekend day catching up because I had to, you know, keep the perfect body on top of the perfect job, on top of the perfect house. And um, my knee swelled up. And within two doctors’ visits, like swelled up and within two doctors’ visits, which is from what I understand, pretty lucky for something like this. It was a clean MRI, no tear. So you go down to rheumatology, and I was diagnosed with autoimmune or rheumatoid arthritis, or within that, maybe psoriatic arthritis or anglosin’ spondylitis, it was like, and I I just remember thinking, you know, I just got those little internal dings, which I wasn’t used to listening to at the time, but I remember getting one. And it was like, no, I’m pretty sure this isn’t my story. Like I just remember thinking that. And I kind of credit my earlier rebelliousness to thinking, like, I hear you, I respect you, but I’m also gonna go try some other paths. And, you know, I was I was the black sheep of the family, and maybe that was all for a reason. I was the one that kind of spoke up with things that I didn’t think was right. I was extra sensitive. And I so it impacted me even more. And I think some of that may have helped in that very moment to just say, I completely respect the doctor and what he’s saying, and he was fantastic, but I’m gonna go on my own journey too. And I just didn’t realize the journey would take as long as it took. And so, just to put it into perspective, inflammation that started in the knee was also in the ankle, was then impacted my arm and my elbow. I’d have a stuck arm like this to various degrees. Everything was kind of coming and going. My eye at one point, I was going to an ophthalmologist every single week for the inflammation in my eye. And it, you know, so pretty rampant coming and going over the years. I mean, literally going to all sorts of specialists and treating, treating all of it separately, quite frankly, which is also part of the story. But, you know, when I started to, I tried every protocol I could find. I’d study at night, then go to the job. I’d I was trying to do it all and understand it all. And, you know, you go into the why me and how could this happen? And my friends are saying, for anyone to have it happen to why you, you’re the athlete, you know. And so that’s going on. And you you think you start to put it at bay with a change in your diet, and then it comes back out of the blue, and it’s just devastating. So that was off and on for about 10 years. So finally I said, okay, I’ve tried all these protocols. I’m kind of waiting to be rescued at this point. And I just said, I have all this stress in my life. I just finally said, you know, I’m gonna make a change in my life. I just was guided to it and I decided to sell my house someday. And everyone again, don’t do it. Absolutely, that’s a terrible decision. And I’m like, you don’t know the internal, like what I go through internally when I get home and the fear of taking a bite and what happens when I wake up and how will my body feel? And can I use my leg today, or do I need crutches? And
I just decided to at least have some financial relief and made that choice. And that then led to a series of events that some healing would unfold with courageous steps or changes to my job and even just moving to have more space to not have the just, I don’t want to say disruptions, not have the all the social activities, right? I really needed to change my environment and make some shifts. I just knew it to really focus on what I needed to focus on. And that’s when I was able to finally sit still too and start to meditate and do some of that uncomfortable work working with a coach. And that’s when I had that realization of for the first 40 plus years of my life, I’ve lived in fear, survival, and being chased by tigers. You know, that’s how my body was responding to everything. And it’s like the only way I have learned to stop feeling like you’re being chased by tigers is to face it and to see it and to feel it and accept that that may have happened because it’s like it’s stuck in all these deep dark crevices of your body and it just wants to be seen. And then it comes out into the light, and then it’s out of you. And that’s that was a huge part of my healing and my journey and the lessons I needed to learn was yes, I may have lived like that the first part of my life. Okay, I’m gonna finally accept it. And and now I want to go about it differently.
Some need points to relate on, right? Because the body keeps the score. And that’s why that book is so amazing, because our nervous system doesn’t forget the traumas, it doesn’t forget the big emotions, it doesn’t forget the anxiety, it doesn’t forget those cortisol spikes, and it’s an automatic response for those listening to everyday life. That’s why we stay stuck in it for so long. It’s not that we want to stay stuck in it, it’s that our body is all it knows until a major pivotal moment occurs. It wakes you up and it makes you look at how you got there. It happened to me as well. For those listening to corporate America, I worked in it for a good part of like 18 years. And when you’re in sales, it is nonstop stress. And when you work for the number one company in the world, the target is even bigger. And when you’re someone like me who was not just a top performer, I was the number one saleswoman in the country. That’s even a bigger target. And my body gave out like yours did. I didn’t end up with autoimmune, but I ended up facing six doctors in the hospital room, basically telling my father and my siblings who were all doctors, that she likely will not survive the night. I had pulmonary embolisms and butt carry syndrome, and it was deadly. And it just shifts your life. You can’t unsee that and unfeel that. I’m a woman of faith, and in that moment of the six doctors, I fully surrendered to the Lord. It’s like obviously science is not confident I’m going to survive. You’re the only one in control. I trust you. I know you’re gonna lead me into my light. I just don’t know what that’s gonna entail. And after I left corporate America, what ended up occurring was stepping away completely from it, retiring from medical sales and becoming a stay-at-home parent, which for a type A like myself, that’s another shift that’s for another conversation. However, one of the things that I was very curious to know was what were those minor shifts that led to the renewing of your mind to get out of this cycle you had been in for the last 10 years? Ah, great question.
I had a coach, I had two really aha moments that were part of this whole framework I created. One coach said, Okay, and this was during that kind of period of isolation where I was really focusing on healing. She said, envision your most juiciest future. And I said, Okay. And I said, I don’t have an imagination. I couldn’t. I couldn’t, I couldn’t imagine. And that was an aha moment of I’m still like running from tigers. I look back to like college. I had no idea what major I wanted to do. I couldn’t believe these kids knew their major. How do you know your major? I I was just trying to live life. I in in hindsight, I was trying to survive. So I couldn’t still in my 40s have an imagination. So I had to learn what comes first. I have to create safety. How do I do that? Right. So I had to go back to the basics because you you can’t, you can’t find your purpose. You can’t have an imagination when you’re in this fear survival loop. I learned. Um the other aha moment, another coach, I was kind of curious about spirituality and working with the coach on that. And she said, okay, you need to put your presence in your heart. And I said, I can’t. How do you do that? I’d never done it. I’d always lived from the neck up, disassociating, disconnecting again, just spider flight. And I didn’t know it was my baseline. I didn’t know, you know, when you have a diagnosis, you then end up being really fearful of my body. I was really fearful of the response. I thought it was defective. I really just wanted a new body. I know that’s it’s incredibly, it’s so bizarre for me to say that out loud now because I love my body and I’m so connected to it. But I had to do these steps to get there. Learning that I didn’t have high self-worth or self-love, those were also big ones that I needed to cultivate. So I had to go to the basics of practicing putting presence in my heart, practicing, you know, reminding myself I’m safe. Even like every moment, just saying to myself, okay, right now, in this moment, I’m safe. It’s okay, I’m safe. You know, I do it still on airplanes if you hear if you feel turbulence in this moment. I’m safe. I’m safe right now, right? Instead of this like fear of what if, what if, what if, and all these worst case scenarios, it’s like a reprogramming that like we’re right here, we’re in the present, we’re connected, we’re in our heart, we’re safe, right? So all those things, what I realized, I needed to learn a new kind of baseline or foundation to have this like connection and love and trust and safety and learning my purpose and all these things, just like resetting my foundation. So, you know, when I really think about who it is I’m supposed to help, it while I think this is helpful for everyone, I will get very honest that I think I had some very, very, very deep wounds and as you said, limiting beliefs that I really had to rewire. And I’m a how person. Don’t just tell me a theory and leave me hanging because I couldn’t get up there. That’s it was a huge leap for me, I learned. So I needed these like step steps to get to that. Okay, now manifest. Okay, well, let me create safety and love and connection and be in my heart and present. So that’s kind of where this whole framework came was really from this facing and unraveling it and learning to rebuild. Wow.
Oh yes, it’s it’s something that I know will resonate with the listeners because you’re talking about the foundation of it. A lot of people want to just skip through all of this and get to the outcome piece. And I love how you created safety for your body by staying present, by telling yourself that you were in fact safe, because if we are led by our thoughts, the thoughts become feelings, the feelings become reactions, and then we are stuck. If we can shift it at the thought level, then we give time to understand what’s below the thought, which is the belief system. That requires a little bit of work, as you and I both know, because it’s not like the belief is very obvious. What shows up a lot, and this is something for those listening, our patterns of behaving. So I have a blueprint myself, but I’m really curious about your framework. Could you speak more about these frameworks that
you were able to create from going through your pain?
Sure, thank you. Um I mean, what I ultimately learned and realized and believe is, you know, two really important parts of a life. Wellness, this is my belief, is, you know, self-love, I think is so critical. And also remembering our connection to the natural world, to nature, right? Like being reminded of that and you know, from we need it, like from the the trees, the air we breathe, right? Like so many things, the sounds, the the colors. So what I try to do is like a slow progression of kind of like you said, of it’s like looking at all parts of your life. And it may seem really simplistic, but it was so necessary. So, what the patterns are, the lifestyle, the environment, the thoughts, right? And how do you really break it down to a framework that you can create new patterns or habits or micro shifts? And so I try to gently kind of fold in an area a week to really focus on it from just starting with connection with your body, right? Like being present. And it just as a gradual buildup of, you know, let’s address not just what we eat. And I don’t never, I I guess I’ll preface, I never tell anyone exactly what to do ever. What I try to do is here’s a toolbox, here’s an idea. Dig into the toolbox, choose what resonates, because I really think this path is, first of all, very, very unique and that you know you best. So I never say what to eat, but like here’s here’s an idea. But it’s not just what you eat, but what you’re thinking about while you’re eating, right? Have you addressed your environment? Is it super clean? Is it organized? Do you have systems in place? Because one thing I found on a wellness journey, the better organized you are, the less chaotic it may be if something happens, right? Or I ended up moving. And so then suddenly, whereas I had doctor’s info and notes and nutrition and things everywhere, it became a little bit more chaotic with a move and a new naturopath thrown in and like, wait, I needed all these things. So organization, I think, is important, you know, facing or releasing things that may not be serving you, right? We talked about understanding the emotional component, but then not just a release, but how do you add in the good stuff and refill your own cup, right? So we’re slowly building up. Then maybe it’s like addressing what your purpose is. I find purpose so important on, you know, well-lived, happy, healthy lifestyle, something like that gets you really excited to jump out of bed, even if it’s like on the side of what you do. And then, you know, up to self-love and connection with nature too. So that’s what I found. And one thing that was really interesting to me is when I really started to understand how my purpose was coming together, I thought back to how I was as a child. And in a kind of, let’s call it dysfunctional divorce environment, I was the kid always out in nature. I was the kid always with the dogs, always picking wildflowers, always barefoot, climbing trees. And I think innately I just knew I should be out there. That’s bringing me peace, happiness, comfort with the animals that my dog is right by my feet right now. So it’s like being reminded of what I innately was drawn to as a child. It’s so cool to come back now and have it all come together and talk about that too. So that’s it’s really just a a way to create a framework to address all parts of your life and you know, try to make some shifts in a busy daily life. I just I’m not of the belief that health is just at a weekend health spa. I think it’s in daily moments.
It is. For me, it’s the daily surrender to the Lord of I cannot control this situation. I cannot control people. I cannot see beyond this moment. So I’m choosing to surrender. Surrender control to the maker of the universe. You know their hearts, you know my heart, you know what I need, you know what they need. We’re all the same, one body of Christ. We’re very human, all of us. We but we’re all the same to him. But I just surrender to that plan. It’s not always easy because the ego mind will pull so hard in the opposite direction versus what our soul is desiring. And that’s where the purpose of our life and our light is. And it’s this constant struggle, and it’s all of us struggle, right? We’re all there. And I could relate to a great deal of what you were talking about in your synopsis of of how you got the framework, and it reminded me of an interview I did not too long ago with George Stoimanoff, who I also met on PodMatch, and his was healing the boy within. And I find it interesting that males like females, we are all in this journey of needing to heal the innermost parts of our being. And what he said in that interview, and what you just said about going back to your child, self and remembering what you love to do then is what you need to come back to. He remembered that he gave up fishing. As a child, he would fish. And then somewhere along the way, he just kind of stopped doing that. And it seems like that for you, you were always outside in nature, always the one with the butterflies and with the dogs and loving being outside. And then somewhere along this corporate journey, you just forgot that because you get caught up in achieve, achieve, go, go, go, avoid pain, avoid pain. You don’t want to think about it. You want to keep going because that’s our culture here in the States. That’s why the mind is always going. And it takes for some of us, not for all of us, major turning point for us to finally say, I don’t want to be there anymore. I kind of want to go here to my purpose. So, what do you think that purpose is for you now?
Well, I will tell you a story about that when I left corporate.
I, and this will tie in, I had a my arm was stuck, as I was saying, and I had a second panic attack while on a work call and with my boss. And I got off the call, went to bed, slept on it, woke up the next day and said, That’s it. I’m gonna finally listen to my body. It wasn’t enough to just be stuck. I had to have a panic. My body was like, now do you see it? So I finally listened and I resigned the next day and my arm moved and it’s never been stuck since. So a lot of that I think was what what I believe now is the body was not fighting me. It wasn’t effective, wasn’t attacking me. It was communication and it was guidance. And I think of it like, again, back to a dog. A dog can’t talk. A dog will show you and try to communicate as best as it can. And I think that’s what our body does too. And it might get louder, louder, louder until it’s like, you’re not only stuck, but I’m gonna make you have a panic attack. So I’m saying that because I’d also started to write on the side when I was still in corporate. And I think by me finally saying, I’m gonna respect myself, I’m gonna listen to my body, I’m gonna take that leap, I’m gonna follow my heart and my path and my calling. That’s when my body was like, okay, she she gets it. And, you know, the body responded instantly. So my purpose, I I kind of call it, I call it a purpose intersection because it was the pings to write, my very sensitive, empathic nature, my wanting to help other people, right? This healing journey I had been on, uh, wanting to be the person that I needed myself, all of it kind of, and even the nature part, like all of it and what I innately knew, it all like came together so beautifully and wildly like nothing that I would have ever expected, right? I thought maybe it would have been to be in fashion or whatever, but no, it’s to be a wellness writer and to do all these things and be this, you know, multifaceted person and help other people and maybe be an inspiration or hope, right? To help other people along the journey. And and I do believe I am walking this path to go through a lot of some hard stuff. So maybe I can make it a little bit easier for someone else that may be confused and feeling alone like I did and scared and trying everything. And, you know, maybe I could shorten their journey a little bit of that, those feelings.
So, what do you think was the hardest lesson you learned in this journey?
I think the acceptance that I’d lived my whole life prior in fear, disconnection, and survival, that there was trauma. I think accepting it was hard. I think what I still go through and work on on a daily basis is choosing love over fear. That is a daily, that’s a daily thing. It’s taking a lot of unwinding and of the earlier programming and beliefs and what we saw and the wounds, like every day. And also understanding it’s not just, we were talking about this earlier before, from what I’ve learned, it’s not just about the physical. The physical was that like really showing me where to make some changes, but these deep beliefs, like we were saying, limiting beliefs, how they were impacting financial wellness, how they were impacting career, right? How they are impacting relationships. Like it is that unraveling and rebuilding to create that launch pad for all parts of your life and to daily choose love and love-filled thoughts and trust and safety over fear.
I agree wholeheartedly with that. I think once you accept the pain, accept the modeling, accept that you got there, it is a relief and release for the body. Because it’s like, okay, she’s ready to level up now. She’s learned a lesson. We don’t have to keep repeating this. It’s so true. And it it happens to people like us, because I can relate to how your mind is designed. That why we wanted to know the how, because now you have to teach it to others. If you don’t know the how, how do you explain it? How do you break it down for people to then take those micro shift steps to move through pain? Because the majority of people, once again, are addicted, they’re in love with the outcome. That that’s what they want. They don’t want to go through a journey of transformation. But what they miss out on are the lessons that then you can apply for the big thing that’s coming down your path. Because we learn these things as a step up. I always explain to my young daughter, whose mind is very similar to ours, of it’s our life is like a video game. We are mastering skills in every level. And sometimes it takes a lot of practice for it to become permanent. I never say perfect because we’re not perfect. He is we’re humans, we’re gonna make mistakes, we’re gonna fail. However, it’s how we stand up and we’re shake off and we’re like, okay, I made a mistake, it’s no big deal. We give ourselves a little bit of grace because it’s these changes are big changes. We’re going from an old identity to a new one. And that does require conscious choices. Yeah, it requires us to pause for presence to not get caught up with the emotion of things, because why the belief is so critical for those listening is the belief attaches at the moment of trauma, it attaches itself to the feeling. So anytime that feeling shows up, whether it be doubt or fear or anxiety, whatever it is for you, your mind has an automatic way of responding. And that’s why we call them patterns of behaving. And they are under the surface, creating all sorts of chaos for us. We don’t even know it, we’re not aware of these things. And until you go through what uh Kristen Renee was talking about, which is to go through your pain, not jump over it, but go through it by sitting with the feeling, identifying the feeling and accepting it. And being at peace with it too, because once you’re at peace with it, it no longer has power over you. Because now you’ve identified, okay, what is that belief at the root of this feeling? Where’s that coming from? And usually it stems from a significant emotional event that you’ve had in your life, and it just automatically created the belief. The belief then leads to the thought, the thought then leads to the feeling, the feeling then led to the reaction, and the reaction leads to the results. And somewhere along the way, you’re creating habits and patterns of behaving from those reactions to that particular the feeling is the most important piece of the puzzle to understand. Because once you make those connections, then you’re like, where’s the evidence in my life now that proves that that belief is true? That’s the conscious ability of the mind now speaking to the subconscious part and kind of negating what it’s those rabbit holes that it wants to take you on. And so I can completely relate to how you went through this framework. And now you’ve recently published a book titled, I know I said it’s healing the money wound. It released when. That was earlier this year. That was in January. Okay, so it’s new in the book world, and you have webinars you were saying at the beginning that you wanted to share with the audience.
Yeah, so I loved what you’re saying about the video game because what I’ve noticed is, you know, like I was saying, there was the physical healing. And then I saw it come up again with workplace wellness and career, right? And my beliefs around how I was here, I was supporting all these other people’s dreams rather than my own and the unworthiness that would reappear. And I saw it again financially, right? These patterns were coming up. I even sold my house and had all this money in the bank and I was afraid to look at my bank account. Like those were deep. And, you know, like who’s afraid? I should be jumping for joy. I was petrified. I thought I’d already screwed it up, right? So those were like old loops I was in. I’m actually going through it now as a black sheep. Like again, an old label from the family. I’m in the family home. It’s coming up. And I just sat with it and I was like, okay, it’s like another level in the video game. Now I’m gonna address this one. Okay, so back to the financial one. I really learned there’s very similarities with the physical and financial wellness and believing in your wellness and these expansive views rather than the limiting and believing in it, even when you don’t yet see the results. I had to believe in my healthy body. I had to believe that change was possible, that it was working for me. And I saw that with financial wellness too. So I decided to, I had kind of my world imploding on me with all these like incredible series of events that are in this book. Like you can’t write this stuff that happened to me over and over, like incredible. And so I said, okay, time out. What’s going on? And I realized I’m supposed to apply the same framework to financial wellness. And so what I did, because things were crashing down, I sped it up and did it like a boot camp. So I did it in 12 days. Like, okay, today we’re focusing on this, then this principle, then this one. And, you know, I’d fun things like if I was on the words and thoughts principle, like being very aware of that. I remember ordering a coffee and she said, What name should we put on your coffee? And I said, Abundance. So I was like, okay, thinking about abundance all day. And there’s just tons of fun tools that I was using throughout the day or post-it notes or whatever it is. And so I wrote the book in real time, walking through it with the reader, with me applying it myself. So I wrote it in real time, very curious to know what would happen at the end of the 12 days with all these things I’d really focused on. So as someone that is an avoidant or a former avoidant, what I wanted to do is create space to do it with people, right? To have a little bit of accountability, to know they’re not doing it by themselves, they’re not alone, to keep going, to know I’ve been there too, right? So it’s like creating a safe space with like a group event, a webinar, and then emails every day like, okay, now we’re working on this. Like you were not alone. We there are so many of us that have different wounds that may be related to fear, scarcity, or lack or unsafeness, whatever it is, and we can make some shifts. So that’s that’s why I do this. You know, I really I didn’t like feeling alone. I felt like I must have must be the most avoidant person in the world. And I’m not. A lot of us are, it’s scary. So it it doesn’t need to be. We can come at it with love, and this is happening for us, and it’s okay, and you’re safe right now. So those are the shifts I want to help people with.
Well, thank you for that information. And all this is in that book, Healing the Money Wounds, I’m assuming. Yes. And if I were someone that wanted to purchase your books, wanted to follow you, where can I find that information?
Sure. The best way is my website. Everything’s on there, and it’s KristenReneRebuilding.com. It’s all about rebuilding that healthy foundation. Um, my books are on Amazon. There’s three of them, including one on finding purpose and those kind of earlier steps you may need. Yeah, I think my website’s a great place to start. Thank you.
And I know you wanted to share the information on the webinars for those listening because you have something coming up in the next two weeks. Is that correct?
Yeah, I’m I’m wanting to do them monthly to really continue to let whoever finds me join in on the next one. So they’re gonna launch on the first and 15th of each month. So I should have that up on my website. I’m also talking about it really jumping into Substack and that my Substack’s called the Rebuild Collective. Again, I wanna, I’m really, I know my goal and one of my purpose, my big ideas is to launch community around this.
So any last words of encouragement, Kristen Renee, that you want to leave us with before we sign off.
Oh, thank you. Well, I think like yourself and myself, change is possible, right? You can, you can change. I I like to think of it as like turn the page on that story. You’re done with that chapter, you’re moving to the next chapter. The next chapter is expansive or abundant or wellness or love. Just be done and turn the page and write your new story.
Love that. Thank you so much for joining us, Kristen Renee, on Release Out Reveal Purpose. And for the listeners, remember Matthew 5.14 to be the light. Be the light like Kristen Renee has been the light. Step out with confidence. The Lord is giving you a spirit of confidence and truth. And it’s all inside of you. You’ve got a wealth of information inside of your soul that’s waiting to burst out. You got to get out of its way in order for that to happen. So do what we did and get out of its way and step into it and be aligned with who God created you to be. For once again, Kristen, Renee, this was such an honor to have you on the show. Uh, thank you so much for joining us. And for the rest of you, have a wonderful and blessed rest of your day. Bye now.
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