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Nina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow26. Confessions of PTSD: What is it and What I knowAfter a several month pause Kristina comes back with anew approach to Season 3 and extends courage as she opens up about herexperience with PTSD, what has been going on over the last few years, and howit is impacting her. Within this episode she shares information and resources onwhat PTSD, they symptoms of it, and treatment options. Though not a licensedtherapist, Kristina shares her experience and furthermore her extensive studieson this subject in hopes to help others who may be suffering in...2022-09-0655 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow25. The Overview of the Five Steps to Trigger workAs we set out on the season to be FREE, we start with theoverview of the 5 Steps to Trigger Work. This week Kristina gives a high levelof these steps as outlined in the book, “From Triggered to Tranquil” by SusanCampbell, PhD. This is the framework that will be used to continue through thisjourney of healing and better self-understanding. Naturally these steps areinterdependent, so working on one area will naturally bring gains to all areasand it also enhances a deeper and more inti...2022-04-1031 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow24. Triggers: What Are They and Why Should We KnowWe are here with a new year and a new season on Nina’sJourney: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow! It has been a hot minute since therehas been a new episode on the podcast and what better way to get going with abrand new season! This season join Kristina as she walks through the innerworkingsof emotional triggers, what they are, and how to respond to them. She hascoined Season three as the season to be FREE! Using the book “From Triggered toTr...2022-01-2341 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow23. Weight Loss through a Methodical and Thoughtful ApproachOn this episode Kristina shares an interview with this season’s partner, Nicole Bird from Mission Nutrition, and together they talk through concepts surrounding weight loss that go beyond the scale itself. They talk about understanding your why as you approach this change and Kristina even shares an approach that she uses that keeps the metabolism trained in the most helpful and healthful way! If you are looking to create change in your body in a healthy way, this episode is for you. Nina's Run for PTSD (Registration):https://forms.gle/VQkQwnSmRWYMX8sVANi...2021-06-1346 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow22. Mindset vs. Perspective: Mindset is Health and WellnessThis week Kristina is bringing back mindset work and provides definition to both mindset and perspective. This is an imperative concept when it comes to health and wellness as she feels that mindset work is health in and of itself. Believing that we have the power to adapt, change, and develop our perspectives in a positive and loving way will gain traction in our actions, which ultimately changes our results. Take a walk through the framework and step back into a space of growing with mindset shifts. Nina's Run for PTSD (Registration): https://forms.gle/VQkQwnSmRWYMX8sVA 2021-06-0620 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow21. Improving Body Image Improves HealthOn this episode Kristina shares her journey with improving body image and becomes vulnerable as she talks bout her insecurities as it relates to looking in the mirror. How we feel about ourselves and how we feel about our appearance absolutely impacts our overall health and wellness. Having a positive body image is imperative to one’s experience within life in general. Push past those negative feelings, challenge the distorted “ideal” body that media displays, and embrace all that your body has done for you! You are strong, you are beautiful, and you are unique … which makes you a gift to...2021-05-3019 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow20. Driving Force Behind Emotional EatingHave you ever pondered the science behind emotional eating? Have you ever considered that eating is emotional? Kristina walks through what she learned about “emotional eating” and how that has changed her view on food, why we consume the way we do, and how often eating often not even about the food itself. Together you will learn a perspective on the idea of emotional eating and how this relates to health and wellness. Eating Disorder, Trauma, and PTSD: https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/blog/eating-disorders-trauma-ptsd-recoveryNational Eating Disorders Association (Blog): https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/blogCh...2021-05-2320 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow19. Know When to Pause: an Update on Nina's JourneyHave you ever gotten to a point where it all feels overwhelming inside? Kristina opens up about where she has been the last few weeks and her experience over the 3-4 months. On this episode she talks about trauma and her experience with PTSD, how recently she had a sizable flare that brought her concern. She walks through the story in a way to be transparent and vulnerable, which gives context behind the flare. She is doing well and reflects on the engagement of new resources, learning to live with PTSD in a managed way.PTSD video...2021-05-1631 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow18. What is the Difference Between Motivation and InspirationOn this week’s episode Kristina introduces concepts that take health and wellness beyond just hydration, diet, and exercise. She walks listeners through the differences between motivation and inspiration as it relates to creating change … how and when to leverage each one. Motivation gives us that call to action, it is externally influence. Inspiration goes much deeper and it is a feeling within and Kristina talks about attaching to that as a means to foster long term growth in health and wellness. Newsletter/Contact page: https://ninasjourneylife.com/index.php/contact-me/ Partnership (Mission Nutrition): https://www.f...2021-03-2826 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow17. I Choose Running, What will You Choose?On this week’s episode Kristina shares her journey with running, which she equates to a relationship. She talks about the importance of finding an activity that speaks to you in a way that creates and evokes emotion. When exercise goes beyond something to be checked off the to-do list each day it carries deeper meaning and it also is easier to re-engage if life has created challenge or barriers to one’s habit of movement. Check out this weeks episode on how to use an activity of choice to foster a relationship with yourself. Newsletter/Contact page...2021-03-2122 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow16. Quiet the Mind and Manage Energy Through MeditationAmongst all the chaos, do you have a practice to regroup and recenter your mind? This week Kristina talks through how to manage one’s energy through the use of meditation. She hosted an interview with Johanna Jean White, a leader in her industry and one who avidly uses meditation … together they reflected on what meditation does for overall health, including some simple techniques and resources to get started. Johanna Jean White: http://www.thejohannawhite.com/ Books ReferencedThe Book of Awakening by Mark NepoRadical Acceptance by Tara BrachThe...2021-03-1455 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow15. Move Your Body DAILY!Hey, we are back at Season 2 with an episode on the importance of exercise and moving your body every single day. Kristina walks you through her system of what she calls Nina’s High Score to track her progress towards being a better version of herself then yesterday. If you are looking for inspiration and/or options on how to get in activity, listen to this episode as it will fire you up and help you create a long-lasting habit of health. Kelly Kraus, Beachbody Coach: https://mysite.coach.teambeachbody.com/?coachId=1076585&locale=en_US· Shoot her...2021-03-0724 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow14. Busting Diet Culture & Cultivating True HealthThis is an exciting episode as it includes our first ever interview! Kristina hosted Charlotte Nellessen, a Registered Dietitian who is serving those around her with the teachings of intuitive eating. Also, nutrition is a topic that Kristina is super passionate about. She continues to find ways to help others feel more satisfied internally from both a physical standpoint, but also an emotional standpoint. Society breeds this notion of diet culture, which raises many of us with body acceptance issues and misconceptions on what being healthy actually means. Join us on this week’s episode as we bust down di...2021-01-3133 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow13. Hydrate! You are not a CactusDo you get enough water each day? Do you know why it is important to get enough hydration in every single day? Kristina walks you through the importance of getting enough ounces in your day to help maintain a happy and healthy function of your body. Do not skip drinking, that is in means of water and the like friends. :-) Hydration helps multiple body functions, but most importantly it helps your sleep, mental clarity, and your mood!Partnership (Mission Nutrition): https://www.facebook.com/marshfieldmission Goli Gummies: https://go.goli.com/ninasjourney...2021-01-2417 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow12. Create Change through Addition vs. SubtractionHow do you create change? What are the challenges of creating change? Kristina walks through her approach of subtracting by use of addition. She will describe how to leverage the psychology of benefit vs. wrestling with the negative emotions that come with the notion of giving something up for the greater good of the goal. She teaches listeners how to leverage an approach of 1+1 and how that can move you toward the habits that will better serve the version of yourself you are trying to create. Stop the yo-yo and start adding today!Partnership (Mission Nutrition): https...2021-01-1722 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow11. Healthy Living Equals a Happy LifeLet’s start the new year with a new and revitalized energy! Kristina kicks off Season 2, which will outline all that she has learned about health and wellness. She believes that when we feel better physically, we will feel better emotionally. Though goals of health can include weight loss, this is not the objective of this season. She wants listeners to know the power in being self-aware of the emotions driving our actions and be present enough to make the choices consciously. In addition to setting the state for the upcoming weeks, she encourages you to seek to be in...2021-01-1018 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow10. Leveraging Purpose after GriefOn this episode Kristina brings Season 1 all together and teaches listeners on how to walk through the process of learning their why. She shares her realization of grief, brought on by a year of despair through continued loss from the Covid-19 pandemic. Learning how to leverage purpose after grief is gained by digging through the layers of why … why is something important to you, why do you need to create a change? Join her as she steps you through her exercise in level setting, reclaiming her why, and stepping into a place where she can rebuild.Reminder: Se...2020-12-2721 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow9. Perspective is Thought in which Drives our ActionsWhat drives our thoughts? What is perspective and how is it impacting our everyday lives? Kristina walks you through how perspective is developed, which has influence on our unconscious programming and ultimately driving the bus to our lives and relationships. Then she takes a deep dive into how to engage the conscious mind to create change. She does this using a concept called The Model by Brooke Castillo and how to use the tool to identify what is or is not working for you … then how to bring forth the thoughts that are not serving you. Change the though to...2020-12-2027 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow8. A Gratitude Attitude Shifts the SoulHave you ever stopped to think about what you are grateful for? We are talking more then the big topics of love, life, wealth, and family. On this week’s episode Kristina walks you through what a daily practice of gratitude can do for you in any state of life. She shares her own journey with how she came across the concept and instilled this as a daily habit. Gratitude has so many benefits to the overall well-being of us as humans. She guarantees that you will start to see life through a different lens by taking just 5-10 mi...2020-12-1327 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow7. Fear, a Show Stopper or Show TopperWhat can stop us from leveling up? Fear, it is natural, powerful, and primitive. On this episode Kristina walks you through what and how fear impacts us as human beings. She even opens up and shares a clip with a very real and raw experience with fear. However, she feels that we an retrain our perception of the biochemical response of fear to interpret as excitement, a state we comfortably manage. Kristina encourages you to embrace it and step forward, leveling up because you deserve it. Save fear for the real emergencies and danger … take everyday fear and leverage it...2020-12-0623 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow6. Growth Mindset is Where the Magic HappensBringing this all together, Kristina will share how taking self love and vulnerability will bring you to a state of growth. She talks about the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. Growth comes from the general idea that one believes he or she can develop talents through hard work, consistency, good strategy, and practice. She uses a real life experience in her parenting to demonstrate as an example stepping into a space of growth. She encourages listeners to not focus on the destination as much and instead embrace the process as she believes that is where...2020-11-2519 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow5. What Does it Mean to be StillWhile navigating hardship or heartache, Kristina walks through what it is meant to be still. By sharing her current situation, she looks to extend understanding for what this may look like and how to respond to a loved one or someone you care about who raises their hand in a time of struggle. As she expresses that, as people, we all have choice and choosing our hard can still lead toward moments of sheer overwhelm at times … this is normal and it is absolutely ok. By developing and leaning on self-love and vulnerability, she describes the ability to be in...2020-11-1117 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow4. Living with Vulnerability Equals StrengthDoes the word vulnerability make you uncomfortable? It shouldn’t! Being comfortable with vulnerability is where living really is at. Kristina explains that the unpleasant notion that comes with vulnerability is really a fear of judgement. To live is to be showing up, to be seen. Together she will unpack the limitation of perfection and instead encourage you to open up to vulnerability, allowing yourself the grace to work through the journey of learning how to understand emotions that may impact your willingness to be vulnerable. This is not weakness, this is seriously a sign of true strength.2020-11-0422 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow3. To Love Openly Always Starts WithinWhat is love? What does it mean to love? This is really one of the most primal parts of being a human being … we all long for love. But where does the journey of love start? Kristina walks through how to define love, learning to visualize what it looks like individually. She will share her experiences in her childhood that set the stage for love and what that looked like as she stepped into adulthood. Only two years ago did she really learn what love was and where it starts, which is within.There will be steps to...2020-10-2220 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow2. Letter to My Younger SelfHave you ever thought about what you would share with a younger version of yourself? In this week’s episode, Kristina writes a letter offering insight into her newly graduated self, whom was about to set out into adulthood over 17 years ago. Through this letter she sheds light on experiences that have shaped the person she is today, while presenting encouragement to be still in the moments of struggle, stay the course, and not to live with regret. Highlighting the need to let go of feeling like a failure, she extends reassurance that she will be ok, perseverance will se...2020-10-1420 minNina's Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow1. Welcome, Let's Be FriendsLooking for a new friend, someone who will be raw and real with you?! You have come to the right place! Join us on a path of self-discovery through grace and growth … where we will learn to accept the past for what it is and reinvent ourselves toward a brighter future.Meet Kristina, the host of Nina’s Journey: Learning to Love, Live, and Grow. She will walk you through a little bit about who she is, what she is about, and why she has created this podcast. If you are looking for inspiration, positivity, creativity, and supp...2020-10-0712 min
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