abundance mindset – lil bit of fit

October 19, 2023

The secret of a happy life is found in your snow globe

One of the best pieces of advice thru my #selfhealingjourney was about how to manage it all. “One day at a time.”

How?🤔

👉Acquire something that will fortify you against poverty (scarcity), against death (healthy living), loneliness (connection/love), stagnancy (personal improvement/purpose/service), etc.

Just make sure to do 1☝️thing each day that positively moves your life forward. That’s it.

When I was younger, I didn’t quite understand when I heard people use the phrase, “It’s like polishing up a turd💩.“ 😂(I still laugh, but there’s extremely deep meaning to the comical reference.)

💎👉If you do not enhance & heal yourself, you cannot enhance & heal your experience.

Finding joy, peace, self-awareness, & self acceptance ARE your answers. It’s not a diet, a partner, a new relationship, money, or of singular worldly/material things.

💎The magic exists inside you. You’re like a snow globe. You can flip yourself upside down & shake shit up whenever you want to experience the magic.

💎You can either become wise, or you can become wounded.

The wounded:

Gossip. Bully. Kill. React. Scarcity mindset. Negative inner/outer chatter. Pessimistic. Are oftentimes unhealthy/sick/overweight/broke/sad/lonely/depressed. Feel like heavy black clouds when you’re around them.

The wise:

Praise. Support. Accept. Respond. Growth/abundance mindset. Optimistic. Positive inner/outer chatter. Are oftentimes healthy/vibrant/more youthful/wealthy/happy/confident. Feel light/warm like a cup of hot cocoa & sunshine on a chilly day when you’re around them.

Don’t get trapped in the logic of life, get trapped in the loving & living of life.

I think about the contrast of how I live my life now vs how I used to live my life…

…people think I’m crazy to do travel Xray b due to the constant change, nomadism, challenges, & the unknown. ( “travel nurse” life for those new here)

And ya know, I thought I’d feel ungrounded & constantly homesick but I’ve never felt more authentically rooted & confident in myself, EVER.

Yes, it is a stressful af lifestyle. It changes constantly, I’m challenged constantly, but I’m experiencing WEALTHS of extraordinary emotions/skills/& real life sh*t that have filled my tool belt of life! I’m constant collecting wisdom & memories.

I’m (FINALLY imo) building a mudder truckin’ life right now. ✨

I didn’t do this in the past. I lived on auto pilot. I didn’t challenge myself daily. I stayed stuck in self sabotaging habits. I accepted my past story as my forever story, & in turn, I was lonely, miserable, overweight, sick, unfulfilled & aimlessly wandering void of the nourishing feels/experiences/fulfillment I desired.

Hopefully this helps you gain insight & INVOKE awesome-sauce & badassery inside of your snow globe.

Shake shit up.

Do it whenever you want.

I believe you!

You don’t need to know or find your purpose to start living life. This is where we get things wrong. You need to simply start living + challenging yourself (& others/society).

I promise you will find the things that make sense, light you up & pave the golden path in front of you.

You don’t find the yellow brick road by doubting yourself, Dorothy. Shake your globe, find your Ruby Red slippers👠✨😉

XOXO

👉 always your biggest fan

Coach K

bio carnivore lilbitoffit katie kelly indiana fishers

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!

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December 21, 2022

Three Life Lessons I Learned From A Terminally Ill Man That Started With A Pick Up Line

One of the best lines I’ve ever heard was delivered to me by a terminally ill man. He knew I was looking for something more, more specifically something within myself. Guess I looked like I needed a laugh!

I was working in patient access as a phlebotomist & registration right out of college (Which I LOVED!). I didn’t know if I needed to go back to school, I was unhappily married & more so unhappy with myself, physically & mentally.

He said, “I hope you know CPR, because you just took my breath away! So, aside from taking my breath away, what do you like to do?”

I laughed, “Self sabotage, apparently.”

He passed away from lung cancer a few months later. He was one of many people I got to know (& lose) in my time working in healthcare.

The message I want to share with all of you is just a short synopsis of the golden nuggets he shared with me.

He said, “Being close to fear & death, in many ways, taught me to live. Successful & happy people don’t self-sabotage. They quietly quit the past. So what is it you need to let go of? What lights you up & fills you with purpose & fulfillment? That’s your answer to making changes to live your heaven everyday.”

It wasn’t a transformation overnight but decades of making different decisions & shifting my perspective because of that one conversation.

I went to radiology school. I started doing sh*t I loved. I started slowly forgiving & loving myself. I started releasing people & habits that didn’t serve (which meant a divorce years later). It meant changing numerous jobs, failed relationships, & trying on a multitude of hats in every facet of life over my 40 years.
And I continue evolving, trying on new hats, & making mistakes, too.

3 lessons that I took from this gentleman:

Life (& the world) is a malfunctioning machine, the more pissed off we let ourselves become about it, the more likely we are to crash. Try again.
Happiness is not a consumable product or end goal. It is not something you find by searching or achieving. It is an arising byproduct of a fulfilling, well-lived life.
A well-lived life has more to do with perspective than anything else. As long as you can evolve & laugh, there is hope.

oxox Coach K

October 16, 2022

How To Be The Charismatic Person Everyone Wants To Know

Had a message recently from a woman who asked me how she could feel like the “It Girl” walking into a room — the one everyone wants to know & be around.

Some deep sh*t, right?! I’m thinkin now what kind of baggage do we have to unpack for this one?

cause we all have our bags.

I brainstormed.

I feel it comes down to charisma & mindset. As you sharpen your ability to be more charismatic & growth minded, you open up a plethora of doors.

The work is dirty. It may hurt. It may make your eyes well up. That inner work is absolutely necessary more times than not to find your sparkle.

A lil bit about my story struggling with a growth mindset…

This child was called fat. This child was called ugly. This child felt she would never be the girl that sparkled when she entered a room.
This child was me.

I was told to lose weight & tried to diet before I was 10. My self-esteem & body issues started at 8.

I hated my body. I had gut issues.

I was told on numerous accounts, “If you just lost weight, you would be as pretty as all the other girls in school.”
Stung every time. Stung with shame.

This translated into: You’re not special. You won’t be successful &/or loved unless you’re thin & look the part.

It’s taken me 40 years to become the happy, charismatic, & proud woman writing these words today.

I hope you enjoy these golden nuggets I’ve learned along my journey about finding your sparkle & becoming a human worth knowing that commands a room.

Swipe thru, continued with much love, growth, & inspiration on your Sunday

Feel free to save tag & share via Instagram, what’s mine is yours. Spread inspiration today!

Oxoxo Coach K

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November 15, 2021

If you’ve ever been afraid to ask for help, maybe you need to read this

I’ve never been good at asking for help. Not in school, not from friends, not from the doctor, therapy, not from mom & dad, not from anyone really.

Always had that “figure this shxt out for yourself” mindset.

I know now this stemmed from fear of being judged – fear of being wrong, fear of being viewed as weak & stupid & not being able enough to take care of myself.

In my 1st marriage, I was not the breadwinner. I depended on him for numerous things. To put a roof over my head. More expensive items & investments. Paying for vacations & when we went out to eat.
And he provided, which I’m grateful. He’s a good man & I wish him the best to this day.

I didn’t have a lot of money. I was in debt. Still a hard worker but could just never get my head above water. I felt like a prisoner & hopeless & weak. I should’ve left years before I did for the both of us to thrive.

This fear of having to rely on someone else grew throughout my following relationships. I was the breadwinner for the majority of them. Fear of commitment & dependency turned me into the stereotypical emotionally & relationally avoidant.
You could imagine the pain of having to say I was a “dependent” when I married a US Marine.
Omg the sting.

Growing up on a farm you’re raised to be strong, productive, resislient, & self-sufficient. There wasn’t always someone there to help you. You had to learn to figure things out for yourself.

Which I guess is why I do well in radiology, too. We have to think on our feet, outside of the box. We often times work alone, we have to move patients by ourselves, we have to learn to get images & diagnostic exams done for your doctors with as much precision as possible so we can help save peoples lives.

We are the eyes of your physicians. If we don’t do an exam correctly & efficiently, a diagnosis could be missed or misdiagnosed which changes the trajectory of your life. If we inject the wrong contrast or don’t follow proper protocol, we can kill you.

Talk about pressure right?!

We’re not just monkey button pushers.

Xray school just exacerbated my issues with not asking for help. Stubborn. As. Hxll. I hated every moment of Xray school. You feel like you’re under constant scrutiny & criticism. It’s true, survival of the fittest & only the strongest survive

One of my favorite mentors, Dr. Stephen Cabral, sent an email yesterday about this very topic.
Him & his team helped me heal from SIBO & a bacterial overgrowth years ago. I learned much from them about proper functional nutrition.

This really hit home for me too…
You can apply it to any area of your life.

“If you encounter a forest & you know on the other side are your hopes & dreams, you’d want to get through the woods as fast as you can…

But most of us struggle, forever hacking through the bushes & branches, changing directions, getting lost, & wasting time…

While all along if we had just stopped before making the treacherous journey on our own & found a local guide that had traversed this forest thousands of times, that person could simply show us the paths they’ve cleared over the years.”

I don’t know if I needed to hear this, or someone else out there too, but it hit me like a ton of bricks.

I know I’m not the only one out there that has been conditioned to believe “figuring it out for yourself” is some badge of honor. Like I used to think not eating & beating the

out of my body was too.

I’ve learned I NEED to ask for help & it’s ok. That’s what we’re here for to help support, learn, & grow together, united.

It doesn’t mean you’re weak, stupid, or incompetent. It means you’re smart because no one knows everything & you should never be the smartest one in the room or you’re in the wrong room.

This is the fastest & most guaranteed path to success. On every level: health, weight, relationships, career, finances, spirituality.

If I can ever help in anyway, I am honored to be your guide. This was way longer than I expected but obviously a message that needed to get out there.

Wish you all the best Monday & start to your week!

Oxox Coach K

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November 1, 2021

How love, food, & money are all connected & how I changed

This morning I I realized how messed up my relationships were.

I thought about chapters in the past, the struggles in particular. I talked about overcoming struggle yesterday.

(If you haven’t, check that blog out. I needed to hear it myself too. A swift kick in the🍑)

Food, body image, money, & love are all connected. My 29 year old self & sure as sh*t my 19 year old self had NO IDEA.

It all comes down to energetics & the way you FEEL about yourself.

I told y’all my body image issues, eating disorders, & fxckd up relationship with food & myself started at the age of 8.

I never felt pretty or significant. We had “enough” as a hardworking family of 5, growing up on a farm.

But as a child, often material “wealth” outweighs the truly important things like kindness & service.

So if you don’t have certain things or dress like the cool kids, you’re picked on & told that you’re poor & less worthy.

If you’re not skinny like the popular kids you’re told you’re fat & not worthy of love.

This wrecked my relationships with love, food, & money for decades.

As a result I racked up credit card debt to buy things to make myself feel more worthy.

I over ate & under ate to control my body thinking reaching a certain size would make me worthy of love. Exacerbating my poor health, disordered eating, & gut issues.

My romantic relationships we’re like rainbows of confusion, struggle, & continuously feeling lost.

We place value & control on specific things for validation in hopes of making ourselves FEEL a certain way.

Usually the feelings we’re chasing are to be loved, seen, heard, worthy, significant, & included.

We want to be CHOSEN & LOVED.

Over spending

Discounting & under valuing

Emotional eating & Disordered eating

Over exercising

Giving our bodies to people who don’t deserve them

People pleasing & playing small

Excessive drinking & drug use

In American society we tend to value thin bodies, financial wealth, titles, material wealth, “fitting in & following suit.”

Improvement in all of these areas of my life started with changing my mindset, my energetics around my worth, reminding myself money is just energy, thoughts became things & I controlled my reality by my reaction, reminding myself there is so much abundance in this world, I matter simply because I exist & because I have a kind heart & choose a life of service & purpose.

I felt some of you out there may have needed to hear this message this morning & know that you’re not alone.

I may be known as a “nutrition coach” & “Xray tech”, but a reminder there are so many more facets to you than labels, food, money, & body image.

And my doors are open if you need a listening ear who accepts you as perfectly imperfect as you are.

And what you are is incredible simply because you’re YOU.💕

Happy Monday loves!

Oxox Coach K

October 31, 2021October 31, 2021

A message to those who struggle & 4 tips to drag your azz out of it

I would say up until, let’s say a few years ago, it’s hard to pin down exactity (I made that word up btw), I feel I lived my life in a constant struggle.

Occasionally I still do, except now, I see the beauty & gift that comes from the grit of the struggle. We wouldn’t understand the contrast or be able to savor the warmth & joy of the good times.

We all struggle with our own demons in some way because we’re human.

The most common messages I receive are “How do I overcome X struggle?” In one short-ISH response, I’m gonna give you the advice I would give my own children if I had any.

Know I’m also writing this not just for y’all who are strugglin, but also to my former self & a reminder to this present woman. Advice I wish I had when I felt worthless, ugly, fat, insignificant, unloved, & like my whole world was collapsing around me & I just couldn’t dig my way out.

When I thought darkness & scarcity & sickness was just “My Story” until I realized it was more about changing my desires & how I felt vs changing my beliefs. There’s a difference. Changing your vibration & feelings will attract what you want much quicker than simply stating a changed belief. Attraction includes the word ACTION.

Going through struggle is not about focusing on the suffering or avoidance of, it’s about embracing overcoming adversity.

So my top 4 tips to those who are constantly on the struggle bus & hot mess express:

1. BEcome MORE
When my life kicked me in the face, one thing that always snapped me back to my desired reality: the realization that I had to actually had to BEcome MORE. I had to BE & DO who I want to BEcome.

For me, I struggled with the facade I wasn’t a significant person worth knowing or loving – BECAUSE I hadn’t become a person worth knowing. I let every shadow, bad habit, & sh*tty thought take over my life like a black cloud.

I either made fun of others or hid in shame to cover up my own insecurities. Examples: I laughed at people in that mushy gushy love, thought having money made you “bad” or it was hard to make, I hid in shame, people pleasing, & stifled my potential because I never wanted to be seen as a failure, rejected, & different, mocked “skinny” girls because secretly I wanted to be them.

You are capable of so much more than you think. Your voice matters & you can bring about phenomenal change in this world if you just let go of your fear of what others think of you, of thinking you have to hide behind your fake azz social media, of fitting into society’s boxes, & anything else not serving you.

Choose to BEcome MORE.

2. EXTRAordinary takes being EXTRA.
Fxcking own it. Frankly we’re lazy af as a society. We want everything to be easy peasy like taking a pill to get that “toned” physique we all desire. When the only way to truly get it & KEEP IT, is by consistency & creating an internal & external environment to support the person we wish to be.

You know I’m not one to sugar coat, literally & figuratively, if you’re struggling, it’s because you need to DO MORE to BEcome MORE than you’re currently doing. Do more of the good shiz like:

– Smile at people for no good reason. They’re free!

– Give compliments just because they make someone feel loved

– Hold the door open for people, be kind

– Go to the fxcking gym. Eat your beef.

– Get your face out of your phone & acknowledge people in line or the elevator, get off your phone at dinner & actually talk, be present

– Do more of what you love just because it brings you JOY

– Allow yourself to love without expectations & risk being hurt because it’s better to have loved & lost than to never have loved at all

– Be unapologetic about loving yourself above all & realizing you owe no one anything

3. Experience More

I used to be scared sh*tless to think about hopping on a plane, road tripping alone, or striking up a conversation with anyone I didn’t know. It stifled me. Now I LOVE IT! I meet new people & friends everywhere I go.

Being married to a US Marine in one chapter of my life & experiencing the melting pot of the military opened my eyes to a whole new world & I will be forever grateful. It has made me more well-rounded & appreciative of other ethnicities & all backgrounds.

Traveling made me more compassionate, appreciative of how I was raised, & opened my eyes to the world beyond my “perfect” & “safe” small country town USA in McCordsville, Indiana.

Get out of your hometown, pack your suitcase, & roll. Not to escape life, but to give yourself the moment to explore & pause to go find yourself again.

4. Be Content with Enoughness

I felt like a failure the majority of my life because I didn’t “live up to society’s ‘normal’ timeline.” I’ve talked about this before, I thought by 40 I would have been married 18 years, have 2 kids, a white picket fence, & 18 years seniority at the same job since college.

LMFAO.

2 divorces, infertility, thousands of dollars in debt, more jobs than I can count or include on a 1 page resume, & decades of sickness & beating the sh*t outta my body later…

But like I stated before, you don’t appreciate the good times without the bad. I would not be the woman I am today, writing this, helping you, via these experiences without them. Embrace adversity & YOUR OWN TIMELINE. Life happens FOR US not to us.

You are enough simply because you exist. You will always be rich if you’re content with ENOUGH. Our future is not guaranteed, that’s really all we’re guaranteed.

Accumulating money, titles, things, followers, a shrinking number on the scale, abs, certain milestones, whatever you wanna insert here…are pointless quests if you don’t love who you are & where you are right now.

Repeat after me:

“Trust that some of the best days of your life haven’t even happened yet. There are going to be parties that leave you dancing until 6am, spontaneous adventures that teach you more than you ever learned in a classroom. There are going to be nights that will stay burned beneath your eyelids, memories that dance underneath your skin. Life is going to exceed your expectations, it is going to astonish you with its timing.
Remember — you have not felt it all.
The world still has so much left for you”
– Bianca Sparacino

Love y’all

oxox Coach K

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September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Flashback from 2018 & bullshit sandwiches

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTmZRtmF101/

What’s my favorite position…⁣
CEO. (Ma girl @laurenconrad )⁣
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(Ps. I don’t wear many T-shirts but this is one of my favorites I bought last year from @amandaradke It fit this post perfectly 😉)⁣
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Holy smokes…I found this entry below on my notes page in my phone from 2018. It brought back every painful emotion at that point in my life & it also made me really fxcking proud of myself. ⁣
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I’ll share it openly with you & maybe it can give you the hope you need today or however it resonates…⁣
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December 30, 2018 ✍🏼 :⁣

“What’s my favorite position…⁣
-CEO, mf’s⁣
(Borrowed from ma girl @laurenconrad )⁣
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The age old question😆 We’ll keep it PG13.⁣
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You’ll never be CEO of your life until you own it & start acting like it. ⁣
Does this mean perfection? – absolutely not, but EFFORT, YES.⁣
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-You wanna lose weight? Invest a coach, make a plan, act.⁣
-You want a better relationship? Put forth the effort to nurture that relationship. Especially the one with yourself.⁣
-You want a different career? Get clarity on what sets your soul on fire & seek it. Open yourself up to receive.⁣
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2018, I don’t know about chy’all but I don’t know whether to say thank you or🖕🏻you. ⁣
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But you know what, the sweet spot is found in the middle.⁣
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To say this year was a roller coaster doesn’t do it justice. Highs & lows like the ocean tide. ⁣
▪️Rebranded into an amazing new business⁣
▪️Traveled the US & met so many beautiful people & new friends⁣
▪️ Changed jobs for what seems a bagillion times⁣
▪️ Another failed relationship 🤷‍♀️⁣
▪️ My health tanked, spent the whole year building a new me from the inside out⁣
▪️ My car was repoed. But I now have payed her off NOW! ❤️🚗 ⁣
▪️ Invested in a business coach, learned tough love & more about the bullshxt lies I tell myself⁣
▪️ Aching broken heart 💔 ⁣
▪️ Weight & energy up & down & all around⁣
▪️ And then, I found myself again⁣
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Sounds familiar? We’re all the same.⁣
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The best part of this year was genuinely making connections with so many beautiful humans all over the world. From the bottom of my heart thank you for blessing my life y’all!⁣
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Love people. Be unapologetic about who you truly are & openly accepting of others. Your network is truly your net worth.⁣
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Remember, what they think of you will never cut you a check. And you are far richer & able in so many ways other than money.⁣
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Cheers ☕️🥂⁣
What did you learn from 2018?”⁣
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Now think back to 2018 & let that sink in.⁣
Are you still feeding yourself bullshxt sandwiches?⁣
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