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Life Coaching with Christine Hassler

EP 530: When Life Feels Colorless and You're Not Sure What to Do with Amber

Life Coaching with Christine Hassler

Christine Hassler

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Have you ever done the work to leave situations that no longer serve you—only to find that life still feels strangely flat?

In this deeply honest coaching session, Christine works with Amber, who has spent the past five years navigating major life changes including a divorce, a difficult relationship that activated childhood wounds, and the grief that followed. Even though she has maintained friendships, hobbies, and healthy routines, something still feels missing. The joy she once felt has faded, and life feels muted—almost like she's going through the motions.

Through their conversation, Christine helps Amber uncover a powerful insight: when the inner child doesn't feel safe, parts of our vitality, creativity, and emotional color can go offline. What may feel like apathy or stagnation can actually be a protective response from the nervous system.

Together they explore people-pleasing patterns, suppressed anger, childhood survival strategies, and how reconnecting with the inner child can bring vitality back online.

If you've ever wondered why life can feel dull even after you've made positive changes—or why healing sometimes feels like it's moving painfully slowly—this episode offers a hopeful roadmap forward.

Press play to hear how reconnecting with your inner child and safely releasing long-held emotions can bring life's color back.

 

Consider / Ask Yourself

  • Have you made major life changes but still feel like you're going through the motions?
  • Do activities that once brought you joy now feel flat or muted?
  • Are you working on healing but unsure whether you're using the right tools?
  • Could suppressed emotions—like anger or grief—be keeping your vitality offline?

 

Key Insights and A-Ha's

  • Feeling "colorless" in life can sometimes be a nervous system protection response.
  • People-pleasing and other survival patterns often develop in childhood to keep us safe.
  • Suppressing anger can also suppress passion and vitality.
  • Healing isn't about reliving trauma—it's about applying love to the parts of us that hurt.
  • Reconnecting with the inner child can help restore joy, creativity, and emotional aliveness.

 

How to Deepen the Work

  • Reflect on whether parts of your life feel muted or disconnected from joy.
  • Notice if certain emotions—especially anger or frustration—feel difficult to access.
  • Explore practices that help reconnect you with your inner child and nervous system safety.
  • Consider whether deeper emotional work or supportive containers could help you move forward.

 

Resource Mentioned in This Episode

Rewired: Reparenting Your Inner Child + Reprogramming Your Nervous System

Christine shares how this course helps people understand subconscious patterns, reconnect with their inner child, and create lasting emotional change.

Learn more at:
christinehassler.com/rewired

For questions or scholarship inquiries, contact:
jill@christinehassler.com 

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is episode 530, when life feels colorless and you're not sure what to do with Amber.

0:08.8

Welcome to life coaching with Christine Hassler, a space where truth and love come together to guide you back to your truest self.

0:16.5

Hi, I'm Christine, a master coach, author, and spiritual psychologist. For over 20 years, I've supported people through the deep work of letting go, waking up,

0:25.4

and coming home to who they truly are.

0:27.7

Each week, you'll hear an unedited, unscripted coaching session with someone moving through a

0:31.9

challenge or block in their life.

0:33.7

These are tender and powerful conversations where deep healing happens in real time.

0:38.5

Even though I'm coaching someone else, you will hear yourself in their story.

0:42.5

This is a place where you will feel seen and supported and walk away with insight,

0:46.8

emotional relief, and tools you can apply in your own life.

0:50.3

Let's dive into today's session.

0:55.1

Hi, everybody, welcome to the show. I've got a live life coaching session for you today.

0:59.6

And this is an especially important episode for anyone that feels like they've been doing the work.

1:04.1

They've gotten themselves out of situations that don't serve them, relationship, a job,

1:09.1

even out of a health situation, whatever it is. But life just

1:13.0

feels kind of colorless and you stop enjoying the things that you used to really enjoy and you

1:18.7

kind of don't know what to do. If you ever have felt this way and even question if you're

1:22.9

depressed, but no, like you're not clinically depressed, you know, you're getting out of bed, but you just

1:28.0

kind of feel blah and you don't know which lever to pull and you know you've got some stuff

1:33.1

in your past that you need to get over and you're working on it, but nothing's really working.

1:37.5

This episode is for you. And this is something I see so often with people. And one of the main reasons I teach rewired, which is my

1:47.0

reparenting your inner child and reprogramming your nervous system course. Because oftentimes

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