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✅I honor all of them because I know they’re necessary to FEEL in order to have growth & be confident in knowing what is right & feels good to me (which are my solutions forward).
❌AND to FEEL what is wrong/resistant/& NOT what I desire. (these are not in alignment for me.)
I think in terms of like what’s the minimum effective dose to NOT go backwards?! What are my Energy forward-giving activities?
If it takes energy from you:
Remove it
Automate it, or
Outsource it
Greatness is found in optimization. THE reason I’m incredibly passionate about living my best, most optimized life. (& to help you find your blueprint & do the same.)
I want an incredible life, not a mediocre life. Why?
I deserve it.
My loved ones deserve it.
Everyone deserves it.
When I am my best, when I feel my best, I can show up fully in myself to serve others & make this world a better place. 🌎🥰❤️☀️
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.” – Carl Rogers 🌅🌄🌇
Find your shade of orange 🍊
Oxox Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
I asked an elderly patient years ago, “What is the most important thing you’ve learned in 81 years?”
And she said somethin I’ll never forget that I also heard on a past podcast,
“One of the most important things I’ve learned is health is the crown on the well person’s head that only the sick person can see & wealth comes in other important forms other than money.”
Ooooof. Who else felt that? 👋
She went on to say, “I wished I had changed my perspectives sooner. Mostly around the perception of being ‘rich’ & that in order to be seen as beautiful I had to be certain size & status.”
She realized she was always chasin a goal like being rich & losing as much weight as possible instead of embracing the experiences of the journey & being grateful for what she already had.
I don’t know about y’all but I love spending time with the elderly. They’re full of magical wisdom. It’s one of the most favorite gems 💎 of my job working in healthcare.
Simply walking & making my bed helped transform my life, lose 55lbs & keep it off.
[It’s not what you think & this is what people don’t tell you.] My healing story here⬇️
When thinking about a #millionairemorningroutine & the routines of the fittest people on earth, it comes down to the reason AND intention behind their actions.
Let’s be real, simply making your bed is not going to help you lose the weight but being a person that LEADS & keeps commitments to themselves, WILL.
70% of leadership is how you lead yourself. There is a difference between leadership & management just like there’s a difference between PREACHING & PRACTICING what you preach.
I intend to be a human that when someone talks about me I would hope that they would say, “She makes me want to be a better person.”
Had plenty of wake up calls where I asked myself a few things:
How are you maintaining positivity in the face of negativity?
How are you setting goals & plans to execute?
How are you staying committed to yourself despite lack of motivation or judgement from others?
🔥People will follow you if you give them a purposeful reason to.
3 kinds of leadership:
1️⃣Physical leadership: Are you healthy & happy & nourished body, mind, & spirit to be strong & serve as a role model to others?
2️⃣Mental leadership: social media brainwashes & continuously puts what you want to see in front of you. What are you clicking on, subjecting yourself to, & what are you consuming?
Find the people you want to embody so you can learn from them & be better. Release the individuals who don’t take you where you want to go.
3️⃣Emotional leadership: The ability to stay balanced & even keeled in the face of negativity.
Know your mission & values. Your mission should be built on the foundation of your values.
“Be who you are & say how you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.” Dr. Seuss
5 things I’ve learned in 41 yrs I’ll leave with you in hopes of you learning sooner than I did:
➡️Joy, purpose, fulfillment (JPF) vs fame, fortune, applause (FFA). Which would you choose? I choose JPF because if you choose JPF the FFA will follow.
➡️Forms of wealth: self mastery, self awareness, family, health, your craft, personal development, money, time, freedom, charity, adventure, your circle of genius & environment
➡️Don’t lower your standards or standard of living to meet your income, live strategically within your means to raise your income & standards of living to meet your standards.
➡️You are always replaceable within a company. Don’t live for them &/or make them your identity. YOU make money for them. YOU are the gem & YOU create your own abundance. Take YOUR GIFTS with you & have the confidence to creat the life of YOUR DREAMS.
“To live in the hearts we leave behind, is not to die.” – Thomas Campbell.
Our days are numbered, what are you gonna leave behind?
Abs…a pretty picture…a pretty/handsome face…money in the bank…titles…OR…
…👉the memories of your dream life well & wisely lived?
Reminders for today ✨
You don’t owe anyone anything:
Your healing. Your process. Your happiness. Your peace. Those all belong to you.
Affirm this today ✨
I welcome the harvest with wide arms & with an unfastened heart! ❤️🫶🌽🥩🙏🤲🧎♀️
Mantra for today:
Abundance is all around me.
Abundance & Attractiveness are energies.
Abundance, Inner peace & Fulfillment are states of being.
Abundance & Reality are an existence I create.
Abundance is a gift from the Universe. I unlock the door & my vibration is the key 🔑 🪄🚪
Abundance shows up as money & in many other ways.
I AM grateful for the continual stream of Abundance flowing into my life.
✨✨ ✨✨✨✨
Oxox
Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
These are my favorite sparkly PJ pants. They came from @target Little girls size 14. They are not “flattering” at all & I could give a shit less. A former version of me would not wear these because I didn’t look “skinny” in them.
I prefer this me, this 41 year old, weird as shit version of me probably more than any other version of me. (And I’ve been a lot of versions of me! 👀)
I’ve been a competitive CrossFit athlete, runner, cardio queen, jacked, fat, skinny fat, partnered, single, married, divorced twice, with men, with women, confused af, broke af, happy af, lost af, fuggn you name it.
If you scroll my feed & peep highlights I’ve been all shapes & sizes & everything in between. (𝙼𝚢𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚐/𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎/𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚕𝚘𝚜𝚜 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚒𝚗 𝚖𝚢 𝙸𝙶 𝚋𝚒𝚘) link below 👇
I now embrace an intuitive, vibrationally lead life. And I wish this for all of you too. I wish you healing, happiness, & love. #vibrationalliving #vibrationaleating
Enjoy my thoughts from this morning. I hope they lead you where you’re meant to be.
Take what you need, leave the rest.
Love yourself.
Be kind
Don’t be a dick.
【 🤷♀️Ｌｉｆｅ ｉｓ ｒｅａｌｌｙ ｔｈａｔ ｓｉｍｐｌｅ．】
Book suggestion👉Please read 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬…changed my life. short read. I live by these 4 agreements & my own personal creed which I share in IG stories.
Vibrational Living.
What is it, how it helped me attract love & money, heal my gut, lose fat/weight, & continuously/effortlessly create & live my dream life.
Let’s get real here (y’all know if you’ve followed me for a while that’s how we roll)…👉I used to be a sick, overweight, unhappy, lonely, broke bitch. 🤷♀️It is what it is.
We don’t filter around here because real life isn’t filtered. It’s dirty, it’s beautiful, it’s pain, it’s pleasure & every shade of 50 shades of fucked up AND amazingness & everything in between. ☀️☔️ 🌈 🎨🌱🌹🥀
Life:
It’s death. It’s rebirth. Its peaks. Its valleys. It’s sunshine. It’s rain. The only thing that is guaranteed is that things are going to change.
I’ve lost 55lbs of weight, self-loathing, scarcity energy, + a bunch of fucks I did not need to give as a younger version of myself. I fully believe releasing that anxiety & emotional weight was actually what helped me open my chakras & release the physical weight.
I like to stay away from labels & allow myself + others to have the freedom to eat & live & love as they choose. I called this vibrational living. I eat this way & workout this way. I love this way. I invest my money this way. I dress this way👉 I do everything this way.
This is what my MO means when I say “I don’t do rules I do what feels right.”
Straight up, Here’s what’s making you fat, sick, sad, anxiety stricken, broke, unfulfilled, & lonely:(I did all these things too. But I chose to make a decision & stick to my commitments to change & co-create a better me & the life of MY dreams)
Thoughts about feeling MIS🚫aligned in Vibration📴Anxiety is NOT your problem. Anxiety & triggers are just trying to get your ATTENTION.
WHY you feel anxiety, depression, unfulfillment, self loathing, sadness, loneliness, &/or WHY you binge eat, over spend, people please, over work, sleep around, drink, smoke, self sabotage, etc…
…you don’t feel safe, seen, heard, understood, accepted in your life/body/relationship/job/whatevs you wanna out here. You lack purpose & are confused af. You’ve lost yourself. You don’t trust yourself &/or other people.
Self sabotage is addictive. It can be like a dopamine hit. Anxieties & triggers are your smoke detector in your kitchen.
Identify self sabotaging behaviors. Your body would be FAILING you if you didn’t recognize you were lonely, sick, unhappy & all the other feels too.
Start the change by by SHOWING up. Shift & become your own safe house. Then you can be one for others. 🏡 💕
🤘Go first & just be weird.
You need communication AND connection. You can have one without the other which leads to imbalance. Stop the ‘shame spiral’.
Steps to building a non-anxious, vibrationally aligned life:
#1 – Choose YOUR TRUTH & reality.
#2 – Choose true connection with yourself & others.
#3 – Choose freedom & joy in every sense of the words!
#4 – Choose mindfulness, nourishment, kindness, inner peace, belief, self love, optimism, goodness in all.
A question that changes it all: What do I need right now? Now pause. Breathe. And answer from your heart & your gut.
Love you. Mean it. 🫶
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You’re alive right now or you wouldn’t be reading this😊 BUT…what proof do you have that you’re really living? Don’t overthink the question.
“Often a very old man has no other proof of his long life than his age.” Seneca.
Meaning👉they’ve chronologically aged, but spent little “living.”
Channeled Messages (embrace what resonates for you) Sing your own song🐦🎶🗣️ You are the magician. Do things different to get different✅🎨 Fuck it, try it🤷♀️🤭😂🙃 There are no rules❌😉 Be your own muse👑💄👩🎤🧑🎤👨🎤Be where you are accepted & celebrated in all your “freak flag” glory🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏁⛳️🫶🌈🦄
💎🤑💍👑👢🤠👠Denim & diamonds, baby. That’s me. Take it or leave it. Carrie Underwood, you my sis.
I remember social media being joyous back in the day. We could connect with friends & family as we chronologically posted content important to us. We could post whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted, as often as we wanted.
Somehow it’s evolved to this pressure that whatever you share has to be “good enough” & professionally well polished. It’s normal nowadays to spend hours creating something people scroll by.
Maybe self-inflicted🤷♀️ Had this thought, figured I wasn’t the only one. I quit concerning myself with us, and simply share what’s on my heart and my mind because I know I’m not alone out here in my feelings/struggles/joys/emotions.
Maybe Cosmic chaos. Don’t fear🚫 Chaos leads to order as you navigate thru it…smooth like butter. I believe in you👏🏼🏆 (& in me)
However you feel about yourself👉that’s how people see you. You truly have to #betheenergyyouwishtoattract
This is why focusing on health brings you everything you desire as far as body (& LIFE) change.
How you feel about yourself reflects your reality outside. Everything else in your life will start happening beautifully FOR you when you start feeling better about yourself. I remind myself inner peace out or peas, enter chaos, outer chaos.
This concept is exactly why I coach clients holistically because it’s all connected body mind & spirit. You’re free to believe, eat, live, live however you want. I honor you no matter what, & from the bottom of my heart I hope y’all find your solutions.
You’re all too wonderful & beautiful to waste this precious life not loving yourself & living your life to its fullest.
Highly recommend, listening, or picking up the book, Infinite Possibilities by Mike Dooley. I refer to this audible book often. He puts me in a high vibe, makes things easy to understand, & transforms you into a hopeful, joyous, enthusiastic, empowered state.
Script your Dream Reality!
Pinterest board. Vision board. Journal. Scrapbook. Whatever you want. Add images, quotes, pictures of happy smiling faces, healthy bodies, whatever you wish to feel & embody to be your highest self.
I start new ones whenever I feel like I’ve turned a chapter or a season. I give thanks for my previous board & invite whatever is meant for me in my highest alignment & love for my next one.
Then I smile & let my thoughts, my feelings, my desires, flow like water & wash over me. I feel into my abundance, my health, & the happiest, most joyous, wealthy version of myself. My most fulfilled self. Those are the images I fill my boards with.
All you have to do is focus on what you want & allow the universe to work out the how, the who, the where, the when, & what form.
Remember, YOU ARE ALIVE right now or you wouldn’t be reading this😊 BUT…what proof do you have that you’re really living THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS?
Oxox Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
Today’s Message & Ponderings: Breaking cycles, color therapy, attracting health/abundance/love by the way you dress (present yourself), current obsessions, what I’m most proud of & life realizations
🗣️On breaking a cycles👉channeled message…
Themes for October: clearing out the cobwebs & RE LAUNCH!
A “LFG”. A wake up to what has been dormant inside of you. A reboot, a transformation, an innovation. A time to go for what is right in front of you. It’s not out of reach anymore, It’s here. This eclipse portal is going to provide you with so much insight, wisdom & understanding (even if you feel like you don’t have the whole direction. Join the club. I feel you.)
What areas have you not been developing or harnessing at full potential?
What weakness do you need to work on?
Take fitness for example. Are you not working out intentionally at the gym? Are you there but not fully committed & doing what you need to be doing with your workouts?
Are you wanting to make changes in your diet, but not fully committed to that? Are you “shoulding” all over yourself?
Don’t be angry if you’re not getting the results you want because you’re not putting in the work or resting when you should be resting.
Are you struggling in your relationships but not taking the time to efficiently communicate with your partner or friends or family?
It’s ok. It takes time to develop & bloom. The valleys allow you to feel where you don’t wanna be to give you the energy to ascend up the mountain to a better destination, your “peak.” 🏔️🌋🌄
There are no finish lines only the journey & the experiences along the way.
The eclipses in October will give you the energy to uncover what needs to change.
Love yourself along the way. Self observation/critiquing doesn’t have to be mean or hard or harsh. It just is.
In the current world today we’re so disconnected from our bodies & our minds. We let distractions of the outer world muddy the waters.
Spend time in nature, spend time alone, spend time in quiet, disconnect from social media. Unfollow accounts. Read a book. Connect with strangers, actually talk to people & get your nose out of your phone.
Something my mom told me a long time ago, stop, living your life through your phone. And that changed everything for me.
You’re back, but you’re different.
You’re always a different version of yourself. So it’s OK if you repeat cycles, just observe the energy around the cycles & why they’re happening.
Maybe you’re meant to go through those cycles again as a different version of yourself. It’s time to step out of your chrysalis.
This is the time around the holidays that people start putting themselves & health (as well as finances) second.
They start feeding the fiend instead of the friend, especially when it comes to overindulgence with the food & spending.
Thinking of food with this perspective helped me heal my bulimia & binge eating, addiction to exercise, & orthorexia.
You want to feed the friend not feed the fiend. Your body is a machine. It loves you. It keeps you alive. Food is your friend that loves you & keeps you alive. Keep the nourishing things close to you & get rid of the rest.
Feeding the friend = self loving exercise, nourishing food, portion control & mindful eating, fueling your body & eating for FUEL, positive self talk & inner chatter, surrounding yourself with a positive growth invoking environment, sleep, self care, nature, deeper community connections, personal development, avoiding trigger foods/people/places/habits, saying NO when you don’t want/need something without feeling you have to explain, resting.
Color therapy is a huge tool in my life to increase my frequency, give me energy, more happiness, attract more abundance, more love, better health, and enable myself to be the person that I want to be. I don’t consider myself materialistic, but an aficionado of creative expression. My wardrobe is a HUGE part of who I am, how I feel, & express myself. I dress accordingly. It is true what they say, how you present yourself not only dictates the way you present yourself, how you feel about yourself, AND the way that others treat you as well.
Personal ponderings
Fuchsia, Gold, & magenta are my favorite colors the majority of the time. (Fyi: Fuchsia is usually a more pinkish-purplish color, whereas magenta is more reddish. Nerd alert 🤓🚨🙋♀️)
I find I am typically drawn to bold, bright colors & neutrals.
I don’t typically like dark colors or black. I used to wear a lot of black when I was younger. I’m aware now this was because I wanted to hide, I didn’t feel good about myself, & I thought I looked skinnier in black, which came from a scarcity self loathing mindset.
I find I get the most compliments when I dress in: Sparkles, Blue, Red, & Pinks
Our aura colors change based upon how we feel. I’ve always been in tune to this about myself. Even with other people, I can feel their vibrations & energy. I wear m headphones a lot when I go to the store & when I’m at the gym because I’m so sensitive & it helps me simply focus on myself more.
It’s “weird” but I can sense what’s going on in someone’s life, their emotional state, even see & hear their thoughts sometimes. I thought I was making the shit up when I was younger but now I realize this is one of my biggest gifts (and also a bit of a curse.)
I have to wear my headphones OFTEN & make sure I stay consciously present in my own body & mind & spend a LOT of time alone (which people interpret as me being antisocial, stuck up, etc. which isn’t the case at all.) I do it so that I can love others & serve others at my fullest. I have to serve myself first because of this.
I have to ground often (time in nature & solitude) I have practices in place to energetically & physically cleanse what is not mine everyday. (Infrared sauna therapy, red light therapy, colonic enemas, nature, workouts, meditations)
🧿🧠Personal observations at this snap shot in storybook time
Proud of myself for being unattached to things, people & places. (For you👉Research stoicism. That’s your homework if you’re not familiar 😉) Unattachment has taken a long time to develop & embrace. I finally released fear + labels & truly embodied & embraced my authentic story + everything that makes me (not what I think I need to be for other people).
Truly enjoy conversation & deeper connections with people. Anyone from coworkers to strangers, to patients, to my family & friends. Quality over quantity. These give me energy with the right people.
Such Gratitude for the special friends in my life. They mean much to me. The ones that don’t make me feel guilty for not keeping in constant contact, but always making me feel loved & supported no matter how much or little we talk or physically see each other.
Super proud of myself for loving my body & health, food & workouts & everything that I am enough to not feel the need to chase body goals or change myself anymore. No more self judgment from a criticism standpoint, but an appreciation & observation standpoint.
Super proud of myself for being able to stay present and savor the things I truly enjoy and consider decadent. Especially with carbs, spending, & alcohol. They no longer control me. I no longer use them as numbing mechanisms but something I use for enjoyment. I no longer drink to get drunk, but to savor what I desire in the moment in self loving moderation. Same with safe carbs & spending (I now say investing &/or gifting the Universe).
I no longer feel guilty for spending money like I used to. I tell myself now when I spend I’m gifting the Universe & the people I invest in.
If I know I made an ego or impulse buy, I return it & say thank you for however it served me. Amazon is my best friend, easy returns! If I buy something, I also make myself release/give away something. I don’t like clutter, I like a clear, organized fresh space.
I purge my space weekly. Anything that feels heavy or hordes old energy I now am unattached to & get rid of.
As far as career & fulfillment, I realized it doesn’t matter what job I’m doing or task I’m doing, I simply like doing things, learning, being productive, connecting with people, taking care of people & as long as I’m satisfied in what I’m doing, everything will be amazing. I love being physical & mobile & moving energy.
I don’t have to have a particular job to be worthy or successful or important, I just have to do what lights me up, be kind, & mostly importantly, leave myself & other peoples’ lives better than before they met me.
I realize no matter what I do & put out into this world. My purpose is to make people feel something.🥰
I realize I have the absolute perfect professions for me as a radiologist technologist (which I used to doubt in the past). I literally see people’s’ inner beauty & this matches up perfectly with my medium gifts + being a nutritionist. I finally feel I am on my divine path without the need to question everything.
Current Obsessions:
Fanny packs
Soft, Comfy, loose clothes, Joggers
Gold jewelry
Cute/girly/sparkly hair ties, bows
Chill vibes, positive affirmation music
Music: Warren Zeiders, Zack Bryan, Bailey, Zimmerman, Morgan Wallen, Post Malone
90s music, 90s/2000s shows
Travel healthcare (love working with Aureus Medical & adore my recruiter Lesa Modde. I’m currently finishing up my assignment in Quincy, Illinois at Blessing Hospital & embarking on a new 20 week assignment in Omaha Nebraska with Williams Family Medicine on November 6th. I have been with Aureus since 2015)
Being at home in Indiana with my family on the farm
Ribs, higher fat, lower volume carnivore diet
Omad & fasting for better energy management, and digestion
My mom’s home Cookin
Aura of a Women perfume (random find at TJ Maxx. I was actually blessed with another bottle yesterday in Quincy. I happened to look up and saw a bottle on the shelf. You can’t find it anywhere! Thank you Universe!)
OK I need to stop mind vomiting now. 🤭🤣🫣
Thank you to all who read the randomness of the daily K🫶
I hope these messages, ponderings, & pages of my storybook help you discover the depths of yourself & bloom into the most brightest, boldest, beautiful YOU! 💐
Oxoxo Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
“If you’re angry or regretful you’re living in the past, if you’re worrying you’re living in the future, if you’re content you’ll know you’re living in the present. And that’s when life all starts to make sense.”
And THAT my friends is what I hold onto…Every. Single. Day, now.
Walked in the moonlight this morning. 🌙 There’s something about early mornings that charge the soul & allow you to discover & reveal yourself.
I find I wake up now by 3 AM every morning no matter what day it is. I stopped, forcing myself to go back to sleep. 🙄
🚗🤭👉side note, I have made a bed in the back of my red Ford Ecosport. Her name is Ruby btw. She’s my bestie & I’m so grateful to have her as my sidekick during this season of life. She’s keeps me safe & gives me freedom. Bed kinda like this one 🙂 👇
I have made naps my new favorite thing during the day at lunch. I have also stopped forcing myself to stay up when I’m tired. My nap whenever it feels right. I sleep so peaceful in my car. Good thing I’m fun sized. 😂 (5’1 & 105 on a good day 😆 I can still hear my dad telling me I need to put some more lead in my ass Haha) Random thought & confession 🤷♀️
Where are all my nappers at?! 👋
I open up my fridge. 🥩🍖
We eating good up in this bish. Beef chuck roast & pork country ribs today from Sam’s Club. I’ll cut these up and air fry them. (Surprise surprise 😂)
Some thoughts about my current food & body. I really love my softer, yet still “athletic” physique. The former more “serious CrossFit athlete” Katie glimmers thru.
(you can scroll through my Instagram to see previous versions of myself. My personal healing & weight loss story is in the link in my Instagram bio) link: https://lilbitoffit.com/my-first-1-year-on-the-carnivore-diet-my-story-journey-transitioning-to-a-meat-based-carnivore-diet/
It’s much easier to maintain muscle & shape once you’ve done the due diligence to build it. That means you have to eat & train with intention Y’all. Not stepping on that soapbox, but somebody needed to hear it. In fact, probably a lot of you who are under eating.
I no longer judge or compare her to the former athlete, or any other former version of myself. I am really proud of every single version I have been. I want my energy to be good now, my digestion to be effortless, & to feel robust & healthy. I call it vibrational, living & eating.
That’s all I care about now. I don’t care about setting body goals anymore, but I am truly grateful for everything I’ve learned throughout all of my seasons…as someone struggling with bulimia, being underweight, being overweight, being a former competitive CrossFit athlete, runner, & everything in between.
Here lately I crave variety in my diet. Higher fat, carnivore than what I was used to. Less ground meat, more steaks, ribs & pork. I’ve been able to consume pork now without any issues in moderation. It’s amazing how the body transforms.
The air fryer is still BAE. His name is Abe by the way. He travels with me. I cook just about everything in him. He’s an instant Vortex 6 quart.
I laugh cuz I feel I’m at a “weird inbetweener” age at 41. I’m an old soul but have such a young spirit.
Stuck between young enough to do it often, old enough to do it right & old enough to know better, young enough not to care.
💁🏼♀️MOOD.
Anyone else?😆
Many times I’ve had to remind myself & ask what I’m living for & who I’m living for, & if none of those answers are ME, well then, I’m living the wrong life.
I’m weird as hell according to society standards. I own it with acceptance, love, & PRIDE, now.
I name all my plants, animals, favorite appliances, & things I use because I feel everything in life is alive, has energy, & deserves to be respected & loved.
Denim & Diamonds… image below taken of me by the talented Dave McKenna of Brownsburg, Indiana.
I love all things sparkly, lacey, & pearly. Recently bought these super EXTRA little girls pants size 14 from target yesterday. Totally don’t need them but they fucking make me feel so happy when I put them on. I literally sit in my living room with these pants on & feel like Jasmine in Aladdin. Another semi embarrassing confession, but again, idgaf.💖
I see & treat the janitor the same as I see a physician or someone highly affluent & “successful.” I see souls & energy first, not race, color, sex, sexual preference, or status.
Q from a follower: How do you make decisions & know what’s right for you?
A: you’ll have to feel your way but as far as for me, I’m a human design, manifesting generator profile 2/4 (google or YouTube it if you don’t know yours) I’m driven by my gut feelings/intuition. Warm/light/happy feelings=a YES, heavy/icky/forced/or cold feelings=a NO.
Feel into your feelings & body. There are your answers. I find now as far as food I’m less of a volume eater & more of a nourishment + energy management + experience eater. I no longer have bulimia or binge eat.
Some days I crave different foods or colors or textures. Some days i crave savory food, different textures, crispy food, creamy food, nourishing food, savory foods, cold food, hot food, denser foods, lighter food, sweet food, etc. Some days I want more carbs, most days I don’t & simply want meat.
Daily energetics. Some days I feel certain colors. Like brights or neons Or neutrals or specific colors and I dress & accessorize in those colors because they make me feel amazing, vibrant & share the emotions I’m feeling.
They make me more abundant, help attract more love, higher vibe people and places, feel happier, lighter, more joyful . Eating the foods I’m desiring also does this just like colors. A reason I don’t force things anymore like diets or workouts or jobs or wardrobes or people or my style.
(A reason I hate uniforms & HARDRULES for anything because this is society trying to control us & our creative, vibrational expression.)
If I can offer you anything today with this diary entry, one of the hardest lessons I’ve learned is that it’s MY JOB to create a joyful reality.
RECAP of last nights big life announcement if you missed it…
“Old keys don’t open new doors. BIG Life update!!!
Monthly vibe check for October: clearing out the cobwebs
I slowly started paying attention to the glimmers. ✨ The things that lit me up & made me feel sparkly & light & happy & joyful.
Taking note of the areas that felt stagnant & heavy.
I think it’s important to address how & why cobwebs & dust accumulate. It’s because we are avoiding or not seeing a process/place/people/etc we need to clear out.
Today (9/29/23) is also a full moon, which is a period of clearing & releasing.
Allow the change of seasons to clear out the gunk/corners/hard to reach areas. Open your windows, seasonally clean. Literally & figuratively.
I had to do this, too.
My BIG announcement as my time here in Quincy comes to an end…
I struggled with the comfort in extending my contract, or staying in Fishers, IN, or choosing the excitement/fear of another unknown adventure. (These still make me scared sh*tless.)
As you learn to lean in & trust, the Universe always shows you your path. Doesn’t mean it ain’t frustrating…trust me…I’ve been heavy & grumbly.
🥳But today, I officially accepted my next chapter & adventure, I’ll be moving to Omaha, Nebraska very soon for my next assignment with @aureusmedical at a family medicine practice starting November 6th. I’ll be there for 20 weeks into March!
Cannot be more PUMPED & grateful.
LFG🫶 Watch out Cornhuskers, this Boilermaker is comin in HOT!
💛🖤🤍🚂 🤍🖤💛”
Affirmation for you if it hits you in the feels at this moment in life. I know it does for me.
Cord Cutting for New Beginnings
“I release any & all negative past, present, & future energetic cords that are attached to me. I release any and all cords that no longer serve me. I call my energy back to me. I go forth new, recharged, healthy, happy, abundant, & full of love.”
Let everyday be YOURS, OWN IT, & NEVER APOLOGIZE for who you are.
Oxox
Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer, nutritionist, Medium — gifts of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive CrossFit athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, embrace their gifts, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com
💃🏼👠Dream girl. She’s all that. I wanted to be her. You know the scene👉Walking down the stairs. 🎶💋Kiss me playing. Freddie Prince Jr. staring in awe as Lainey walked down the stairs🥹
I LOVE the human body & admiring women embracing themselves with confidence
🎙️Shared a podcast in IG stories today around the subject of becoming the #dreamgirl by @iamsahararose 👉
Think about it, are you triggered when you see someone in a bikini/sharing appreciation for their bodies?
My idea of being a dream girl, now, at 41, is embodying a healthy, happy, vibrant, loving, RAWTHENTIC (yes, I made that word up 🙂 warrior & a walking piece of art! I define ME.
I can be beautiful with no make up on or extensions AND embracing my creative expression with external art like extensions, filler, & make up.
The way you FEEL about yourself affects the way you show up AND how you’re treated. It really has nothing to do what you look like but everything to do about the energetics around how you feel internally & project outwardly ✨ju
You can be the #ITgirl or guy no matter what you look like.
I have met some aesthetically BEAUTIFUL/attractive people, yet they were the ugliest mofo’s I’ve ever met because their personalities, energy, & heart were dark & cruel & ego consumed & troubled.
Take the photo, have the #photoshoot 👉It crystallizes the loving moment of you🫶
F*ck it, be extra. I wear whatever outfits I want, no matter how EXTRA🦄🪩 because it makes me feel like a goddess warrior!
I want this feeling & confidence for you from the bottom of my heart♥️
…👉Goes & puts on blingiest, most EXTRA 💍 💎 outfit ever. 👑🙃🥰
Share if this resonates with you my lovely #uglyduckling
Time to to #glowup
Oxox Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer/speaker, nutritionist — doer of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com
I used to get wasted every Friday & Saturday (sometimes Sunday too). I used to wish my life away & only live for weekends & vacations.
Triggered much? 👀🤔😮💭🧐
I reflected upon this memory yesterday as I admired myself in the mirror at the gym. I looked myself in the eyes, smiled, & gave gratitude to life being much different now.
I joined a new gym @blessingwellnesscenter here on my current #travelxray assignment in #quincyillinois with @aureusmedical 💀☢️⚡️🦴🩻😷🏥🚑
Gym & I had a date night 😉 😘 🦾🦿🏋🏼♀️
I thought about how many beautiful moments of breath I could’ve used differently.
Point of this diary reflection👉 𝗨𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁, 𝗜𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲.
You know how they say they invest wisely?Invest your weekends!
A perspective is like a seed. If you get it right, sow it right, take care of it; it will yield you fruits.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power.
Most half a$$ their way through life, never deciding to master or enjoy anything in particular, especially those things that light your soul on fire!
🩵Learn something new!
🩵Adventure & collect experiences!
🩵Better your brain 🧠 & your body🫀🦾!
🩵Connect with yourself, nature, & other people!
Weekdays + Weekends = 7, not 5!
The shift to “investing” will happen once you start saying NO to a lot of usual stuff:
❌Say NO to those vapid people & energy suckers.
❌Say NO to unhealthy food & binge drinking.
❌Say NO to the “It’s Ok, it’s the weekend” attitude.
❌Say NO to late-night parties & networking with a crowd that doesn’t care &/or uplevel your being!
❌Say NO to all the things that don’t shift your perspective towards a better self!
Weekends are not an end. They are a beginning. But only when you change your perspective 🧠📈🌱🌻❤️🔥
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer/speaker, nutritionist — doer of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com
I turned 41 this year. 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘭 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 & 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘶𝘮𝘱.
I don’t remember what I thought life would be like when I turned 21 & thought about turning 40. But right now I can say I feel better now then I did back then.
Days off, simply being present, enjoying nature, wearing clothes I love, doing my nails, doing anything that lights my soul on fire is me creating my heaven & I’m proud of myself.
Along this journey I’ve figured a few things out 🙂 & I want to share with you my biggest takeaway for the last 41 years…
Ready????
It’s easier being EXTRAordinary & exceptional than it is being mediocre & average.
🤷♀️Here’s the hard truths & proof…
Most people are unhealthy & overweight. I choose not to be.
Most people are in debt & broke. I choose not to be.
Most people are complacent & lazy & have zero success routine. I am not.
Most people gossip & complain. I do not.
Most people stop learning. I have not.
Most people accept 0 responsibility. I take full accountability for myself, past, present, & future.
Most people are not a good example for their kids or society in general. I try to be the human I’d want my kids (if I could have any) to look up to.
Most people cower from hard conversations & tough situations. I embrace them & choose brutal honesty.
I am not saying I am perfect but a human that simply learns & strives to be better.
If you do the exact opposite of what “most people” do, you will live a pretty exceptional life.
I should warn you tho…
Doing what most people don’t do is not easy. But it’s also what makes it exceptional.
I hope me sharing life & getting older has inspired you 🙂
Go be EXTRAordinary & exceptional!
Oxox Coach K
Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer/speaker, nutritionist — doer of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com
Who do you think you are?” she asked me (my supervisor).
In a performance review when I was 27 I was told that I had a “strong silence” & was “different” which others took as me being arrogant & cold & that I “needed to be more understanding of other people‘s weaknesses.”
💁🏼♀️In Beth Dutton fashion, let me interpret this: “Your resting bitch face, your sparkle, & the fact you can do other people’s jobs better make them uncomfortable.” 🤷♀️😆
It was eye-opening & ego shattering at the same time. I had no idea that was how I was being perceived. It did encourage me to sit down & observe past behaviors & presentation & how I was “different.”
At that time I was going thru a divorce, in radiology school full-time & working part time on top of it. As I put it, stressed to the titties.🫣
I was like come on sister, my life feels like getting stuck halfway putting on a sports bra when you’re sweaty & ya need Jesus to come down & cut you out of it 😂
When you’re “different” & a “high performer” in life, you might notice that some other people, well — aren’t.
If you want a great life, tattoo these words on your brain: LIFE IS NOT HARD ON YOU; YOU MAKE LIFE HARD FOR YOURSELF.
Life can be hard & people won’t understand you sometimes, yes, but the majority of the “hard” sh*t in life people think is really “hard” in my opinion is really the EASY SH*T.
Just be you & stop over complicating things. People don’t need to understand you you just have to love yourself.
Took myself thrift shopping & a rainy date to the gym yesterday. Had a beautiful day of treasure hunting!
The thing I’ve learned over the years is that many live life haphazardly complacent in a mediocre, lost state…
I hope this can meet you with inspiration today ❤️
Oxox Coach K
HOW TO SHOP AT THRIFT STORES: 7 TIPS FOR FINDING THE HIDDEN GEMS
1. Go in with the right mindset—it’s about finding a treasure.
2. Look through everything, ALL sections. Try them on, they look different on 🙂 If it looks even remotely interesting, throw it in the cart. Have fun!
4. Go often & when the store opens to get the best buys.
5. Feel good supporting the community! My FAVorite part is giving back! My thrift store order of ops: Mom & pop stores → Church stores —> Salvation Army —> Goodwill.
6.Wear outfits that are easy to layer over so you don’t need a fitting room.
7. Buy it if you LOVE it!
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Hailing from Fishers, Indiana, Katie is an aficionado of healthcare, fitness, & personal development. Travel Radiographer, motivational writer/speaker, nutritionist — doer of many things, she grew up on her family’s beef cattle & crop farm where agriculture & healthcare were her first loves.
She is a Purdue University graduate well known for her storytelling of life lessons & personal transformation through Crohn’s disease & life as a radiologic technologist with 18 years experience!
After decades of struggling with her own health issues from Crohn’s, obesity, disordered eating, infertility, hormonal imbalances, & being a competitive athlete, she is passionate about helping others find self love, achieve their goals, & create sustainable success habits for an EXTRAordinary life!
You can catch her via Instagram @lil_bit_of_fit & blog, Lilbitoffit.com
