EP 514: Maybe There Isn't a Problem at All with SJ
Life Coaching with Christine Hassler
Christine Hassler
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
In this tender and powerful coaching session, Christine works with SJ—a single mother who has done tremendous inner work but still wonders if something is blocking her from partnership. Together, they explore the difference between apathy and protection, generational patterns, and the fear of letting someone see you at your most vulnerable.
As SJ opens up about her history, caregiving responsibilities, and longing for connection, Christine reflects back the progress she's already made and challenges the belief that there's "a problem" to be solved. Instead, this conversation shows how surrender, self-love, and reframing our stories can transform what we see as liabilities into pathways for deeper intimacy.
If you've ever felt "stuck," compared your progress to others, or believed that your life circumstances made you unlovable, this episode will help you soften those fears and recognize the growth already alive within you.
Consider/Ask Yourself
- Do you sometimes confuse surrender with apathy?
- Have you felt so self-sufficient that there's little room for anyone else?
- Do you carry the fear that your challenges or past make you undesirable in relationships?
- How might it feel to let someone witness you in your weakest moments and discover that you are still worthy of love?
Key Insights and A-HAs
- Not every challenge is a "problem" to be solved—sometimes there's no problem at all.
- What looks like apathy may actually be self-protection.
- True partnership is about interdependence, not codependence.
- Intimacy often deepens when we let others see us in our hardest moments.
- Shifting your inner language and beliefs can change how others experience your life story.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 514. Maybe there isn't a problem at all with S.J. |
| 0:07.2 | Welcome to life coaching with Christine Hassler, a space where truth and love come together to |
| 0:12.5 | guide you back to your truest self. Hi, I'm Christine, a master coach, author, and spiritual |
| 0:17.8 | psychologist. For over 20 years, I've supported people through the deep |
| 0:21.7 | work of letting go, waking up, and coming home to who they truly are. Each week, you'll hear an |
| 0:27.3 | unedited, unscripted coaching session with someone moving through a challenge or block in their life. |
| 0:32.0 | These are tender and powerful conversations where deep healing happens in real time. Even though I'm coaching someone |
| 0:38.2 | else, you will hear yourself in their story. This is a place where you will feel seen and |
| 0:42.6 | supported and walk away with insight, emotional relief, and tools you can apply in your own life. |
| 0:48.7 | Let's dive into today's session. |
| 0:53.3 | Hey, everybody, welcome back to this show. So happy to have you here. As a reminder, |
| 0:59.2 | every Wednesday, I drop an episode that is a totally unscripted, unproduced, barely edited, |
| 1:05.2 | unless we sneeze or cough or there's a phone ring, coaching session with me and someone someone most of the time I've never spoken to |
| 1:12.4 | before. Sometimes it's someone that's come to a retreat in the past like SJ. And then every Saturday, |
| 1:18.0 | I drop a coach's corner, which is when I either share some nuggets with you myself or have an |
| 1:22.4 | expert that I respect share their nuggets with you. So thank you so much for being here. |
| 1:27.1 | And if you like the show, |
| 1:28.5 | I'd so appreciate a rating and review. Head on over to iTunes and do that. It means so much to me, |
| 1:33.5 | and it really helps the show. So in my episode with SJ, she does talk about the be the queen program, |
| 1:39.7 | which you can still access, even though we're not teaching it live right now. The Evergreen is always |
| 1:43.7 | available at Christinehasser.com slash be the queen. And she also shares about her experience at one of our |
| 1:49.3 | retreats. We are getting very close to my women's retreat. It's October 17th. And this, |
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