Better Because of It

Michelle shares her tumultuous journey from marrying a drug lord, being held captive in another country, and ultimately her kids being kidnapped. Her perseverance and will to, not only live, but to save her girls is a testament to finding strength in hard times. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 - 2023 Kristine Vineyard

Trudi is no stranger to loss. Every decade brought about death starting as a child with losing her brother, then her father and ex in her 20s and losing her mom in her 30s. She has felt alone, lost trust, and lost her ability to even feel pain. The compounded grief left her overwhelmed and feeling like an outsider to peers who couldn’t comprehend her story. In this episode, we discuss how grief shows up. Feels like shit and is normal! We have an open conversation about the power of allowing and witnessing grief in order to process and heal, moving through the pain so you don’t get stuck in the suffering. And with all of this loss, what would Trudi tell her former self … it does get better. There will be another season! Be sure to listen to learn how. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 - 2023 Kristine Vineyard

Five years of infertility, a daughter born with special needs, limes disease, an abusive marriage, and a traumatic divorce lead School Counselor, Angie Shields to the power of forgiveness, stronger faith, and living more authentically. But not without having to work to own her part through the recovery of shame, pride, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and codependency. Angie shares her work in progress knowing that we have to bring light to the dark places for true healing and growth. She shares the power of showing more love rather than sitting in pain, hurt, and anger. By showing ourselves grace and compassion we begin to love ourselves well which allows us to love others well. Through her journey, she has found a loving partner and blended family that she wouldn’t have found otherwise, helping her live her Better Because of It story. Be sure to stay tuned to the last 15 minutes where Angie shares how to best help support ourselves and our children through the power of belonging and positive coping skills. What she likes to call “Movement increases Mood” & "IRL Communities.” Angie spends her time counseling and speaking life into women with empty arms, comforting those whose husbands have walked out on them, and supporting blended families to thrive. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 - 2023 Kristine Vineyard

Dry January? Thinking it’s time to take a look at your relationship with alcohol? Join me and health coach and friend, Jessica, for this candid conversation about our journey with alcohol. We wanted to share our personal stories about alcohol rather than from a coaching perspective and how alcohol is affecting us. Yes, we work with people around their relationship with alcohol, but this is OUR story and how we are better because of choosing to live sober and alcohol-free. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 - 2023 Kristine Vineyard

Starting off the new year, we are joined by Kasey Bergh, who shares her journey toward self-actualization. In this episode, we hear through Kasey’s rich life stories what it takes to become the best version of ourselves. Through a vast array of adversities that include kidney disease, a kidney transplant and a traumatic divorce, Kasey shares key factors that contribute to finding and staying true to her light in the midst of the darkness. Through self-awareness and personal growth, including examining our past, understanding our present selves, and envisioning our future potential, she feels we move through these experiences better because of them. Rather than “kicking and screaming” through life, discover what it takes to shine bright so you don’t just survive but thrive. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 - 2023 Kristine Vineyard

Do you feel stuck or anxious about the future? Do you feel like you’ve arrived at this place in your life and your thinking, now what? Wondering what you should and want to do with your life but you aren’t sure which direction to head. Many times after a big life disruption, once we stand up and wipe ourselves off, we take a look at our lives as this new person and wonder how the heck do I want to live my life now. Listen as I share exact steps to becoming the designer of your life so you feel less like your life is happening to you and more empowered to take practical steps to redesign your new life. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2022 Kristine Vineyard

The manual is just what it sounds like. It’s an instruction guide we have for people in our lives about how we would like them to behave so that we can feel good and be happy. The problem is - they cause our suffering instead. These manuals are made up of our thoughts and beliefs about how people should behave based on what we believe to be true, based on what we know and have been taught, and based on what we have learned. We may feel justified to have these expectations of others, but it can cause a lot of problems and be very damaging when our emotional happiness is directly tied to others behaving a certain way based on our manual. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2022 Kristine Vineyard

Our overall well-being flourishes when we have integrated specific areas in our life that are proven to bring about wholeness. These areas combined bring about more happiness, success and overall meaning in our lives. That is the biggest reason I have studied, applied and continue to improve my overall well-being while also encouraging others to do the same. Why… because I believe this is the key to less suffering and more resilience and overall joy in our lives. And you are going to not only learn what exactly well-being is, but why you want to improve it and how improving it makes for lasting change. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2022 Kristine Vineyard

A new year resembles new beginnings in life. It is often a time when we have a chance to let go of the past year to embrace a new and optimistic future. We have this beautiful opportunity to shut the book on one chapter of our life while opening up and starting a fresh new chapter, should we choose. And the beautiful part … this new chapter has everything to do with where we focus our mind and attention, and little to do with what’s actually going on in our existing reality. Join me in this episode as I share exact steps to create a road map and plan for positive and lasting change in this new chapter. Signup on my Facebook page here or my Instagram page here! Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2022 Kristine Vineyard

When most people think of empathy, they think of empathizing with someone else. It’s no wonder considering the many circumstances, in both personal and work life where you find yourself caught between people or groups of people expecting you to understand. These situations require you to manage yourself among different individuals while maintaining some personal connection with each of them. Empathy helps to avoid misunderstanding. But when you are feeling misunderstood yourself, empathizing with someone else is difficult. And if you are not aware of your own inner experience, your emotional and mental state, how can you be sure you are perceiving what the other thinks and feels as opposed to projecting of your own self upon them? This is why in this episode we are talking about how the first step toward empathizing with someone else is to actually empathize with yourself. And I will teach you exactly how you can start doing this in your life right now. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

One of the hardest lessons to learn is to accept things the way they are and let go of expectations. This is where we create struggle for ourselves unknowingly. But what if we knew how to accept what is or what happened? What if rather than feeling frustration and resistance to, we could feel a sense of flow and understanding? The less we resist, the easier things become. So how can we begin to create more ease and flow in our lives? Listen as I share ways to accept whatever you need to in order to let go of that which is holding you back. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ Please click the button to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes and leave a review if your favorite podcast app has that ability. Thank you! © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

Relationships can be beautiful … they can also be very challenging and difficult. So how do we create more love and connection when dealing with difficult people in our lives? I believe it’s about creating a better relationship with ourselves, so we are better able to handle any other relationship, no matter how challenging it may seem. Today I share a number of ways to take your power back in any situation so you can create the experience you most desire, regardless of what is happening in your external world and regardless of how other people behave. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

You may hear it all of the time. And there is a reason for it. Gratitude, taking in the good. It is one of the easiest things we can do to create a life we most desire - to create more peace and joy in our lives. And yet, how often do we actually take the time to direct our focus toward what we most want vs what we don’t want in our lives. Listen up as I share ways to create small steps of actively changing your brain in order to create what you most desire in your life. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

Life is unpredictable. We know this. It’s a journey where it’s impossible to avoid peaks and valleys. And in that journey, there is pain sometimes. In these times of pain, we have a choice in how we want to deal with the pain. Many times we are unaware that we have a choice, but I’m here to tell you we do. And that’s a good thing. In this episode, I share exact actions to take to heal and grow from pain from the inside out. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

What is at least one thing we can learn from the pandemic? I want to challenge you to take away the importance of self-care as a necessity. Self-care from the inside out that rejuvenates the soul so you share your goodness with others and the world. Evidence proves that there are tremendous benefits to implementing self-care into our daily lives. It improves our mental, physical and emotional health and well-being. It is an essential part of what makes us human. By allowing for space to create meaning, purpose and positive well-being we go from simply surviving to thriving! Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

What if you could go from struggling right now to redirecting your pain, confusion or stuckness to purpose and living beyond the struggle? I’m talking about not just acknowledging or accepting your adversity but taking your struggle and creating ways to move forward with personal strength, deeper meaning and a greater appreciation for life. Listen as I use strategies of Post Traumatic Growth to create ways to move from uncertainty to living a life better because of it. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

Sometimes bad things do happen. Confusion, sadness, overwhelm and worry show up despite our very best efforts to move forward. Life can be unexpected, messy, challenging and it can feel unfair. So what do you do when that bad thing happens? In this episode, I share how we have an option to choose how we want to think about our current experience of life. How to move past the negative thoughts and emotions and choose to be intentional about what we are creating in our minds and in our lives. If you are missing something in your life, if you are stuck… this is the missing piece. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

There is a reason mindfulness is such a buzz word. Why? Because when we start to become more mindful in our daily existence, we experience more focus, more peace, more happiness and leave behind the constant hum of overwhelm and stress. If you are feeling stuck, overwhelmed or battling negative emotions, bringing awareness to our minds and bodies allows us to become the observer to the ways we remain stuck in our past conditioning. We can create change in our brains and our lives by paying attention to our thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are running on autopilot subconsciously. In this episode, learn not only why mindfulness is important but how to implement it in your life and begin retraining your brain. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

Have you ever thought of looking at your life as a hero on a journey? In this episode, I am joined by Paige Nelson, friend, mentor, student & teacher. Paige shares her expertise and lessons learned from twentieth century mythologist, Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Journey. The Hero’s Journey gives us a new way to view our lives - a pattern of how the typical life of a human having a human experience takes place and unfolds. Paige gives us her heart and shares her personal journey of stepping into each call, trusting that she was brave enough to find her way even when it felt impossible, and how she grew better because of her journey. This understanding was a life changer for me. When I learned the role I played in my own life, based on the many stories that have been told over lifetimes, I felt less alone in the journey and more at peace. It provided a sense of purpose in the obstacles, and at a time of immense uncertainty. I hope you walk away feeling empowered knowing we are all connected as humans on this adventure and by stepping into each call wholeheartedly, you will be changed and better… because of it. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard

Did you know questioning parts of yourself after a major life change, transition or stressful time in life, is normal? You might be feeling lost without the partner you’ve had for years by your side, without the job that gave your life purpose and meaning, after the loss of a loved one or after discovering what you once believed to be true to you, is no longer. In this episode, I share about the identity crisis you might be experiencing and what you can do to embrace this time in order to live more authentically. You will learn ways to begin the process of self discovery and reflection to answer the questions, "Who am I?" "Where have I been?" "Where am I going?" I will show you how to use this time as an opportunity to go through the process of connecting to the truest version of yourself and ignite your soul at a core level to live a life fuller and more empowered. Go here to join the community of women creating a life Better Because of It. https://www.ubwellstudio.com/ © 2021 Kristine Vineyard