Dr Kirstin DC MS, 25589 SW Canyon Creek Road, Ste 100 (2025)

08/08/2025

I read the other day that a nutritionist I follow drinks a Coke weekly — and I know my filter is different, because I’ve dealt with chronic illness and work with clients who live with unexplainable symptoms... But to me? I thought "hm that's interesting".

Because here’s the thing:

“Everything in moderation” is one of my least favorite sayings.

Because what does that even mean?

Once a week? Once a day? Small amounts multiple times a day?

When I do labs and nutrition reviews, I see just how fast those “little” things add up.

And no — we don’t need to be perfect.
Yes — I eat ice cream, fruit snacks are my favorite.
We go out to eat occasionally. I live in the real world.
But I do those things with discernment.

Because “if it fits your macros” doesn’t account for how food impacts the cellular environment — and whether your body is inflamed, depleted, or energized because of the food you put into it.

We’re not just talking about blood sugar here.

We’re talking about mitochondrial stress.

Oxidative damage.

Whether your cells are being supported… or suffocated.

And the truth is, food doesn’t act in isolation.

It stacks — on top of stress loops, mineral depletion, hormonal chaos, environmental toxins, poor sleep.

So while no, I wouldn’t say one Coke a week causes chronic illness…

It’s a luxury to say that when you don’t have a chronic disease.

The problem is, many “experts” will tell you it’s fine.

That nutrition won’t touch your migraines or your autoimmune flares.

But it can help - a lot.

And often, it does — if you go deep enough.

That’s why inside the Full Body Reset, we don’t just look at food.

We look at how you’re fueling your cells.

We look at energy leaks — at the top and bottom of the funnel.

And we rebuild from the inside out.

09/05/2025

I didn’t mean to have an attitude earlier. But the truth is that I hit a wall today.

I woke up anxious.
I tried to get help, and everything went sideways.

And I found myself stuck between two impossible choices:

1. Sacrifice my well-being just to “do the things” and make ends meet

2. Or protect my peace and risk nothing getting done

And honestly? I’m just tired.
Not just physically - like soul-tired.

So here’s what I did when it all felt like too much:

I stopped.
I said the truth out loud:
“I’m frustrated. I’m overwhelmed. I don’t want to keep doing this like this.”

I let myself cry and didn’t try to shut it down.
I took a few deep breaths and gave my body a moment to catch up.

I reached out to connect with a few close people - who acknowledged me and gave me encouragement.

And I looked for the lessons. Always looking for the lessons because times like this are when I'm being stretched. And it's UNCOMFORTABLE.

And then I asked:

What’s one thing I can do right now that actually matters?

Not everything. Not the whole list.
Just one thing that's rooted in alignment and not fear.

Because when everything feels urgent…
Coming back to your body IS the strategy.

✨ If you’re in this too, trying to hold it all together while healing, growing a business, and staying regulated... I see you.

This moment doesn’t define your future.

But how you move through it can change everything.

Save this, try this out the next time you need it, and let me know how it goes for you.

You already know this pattern isn’t just mindset.
It’s in your body. Your business. Your burnout.

And you wouldn’t still be reading this if some part of you wasn’t ready to shift it—for real this time.

If you're ready to finally understand why this keeps happening and how to heal it at the root—so your physical symptoms stop repeating your emotional patterns...

Then learn more here about my new Community Deep Dive Experience:
https://kirstin-lauritzen.mykajabi.com/offers/TqvoLKWq

This is where we do the real work: the subconscious rewiring, nervous system restoration, and identity-level healing that creates results you can feel—in your energy, your clarity, and your body.

Enrollment is open now!

18/03/2025

Chronic stress and hormones do not mix 🙅🏼‍♀️

And I also would add how important movement is, particularly building and maintaining muscle mass (to improve your immune system and helps to release some stress as well).

Imbalances in any of these pillars can increase stress and be part of the root causes behind hormone imbalances.

This is why it can feel so hard and frustrating to balance your hormones.

And, I find most of my clients underestimate how critical the mental/emotional stressors & load + having a nervous system that feels safe is for creating hormone balance and optimal health.

Since we talk about burnout around here so much, boundaries and purpose must be included in this list.

If you don't know where you end and other people begin, and you feel like you take on so many people's emotions, stress and needs... This is a direct pattern that can lead to chronic digestive issues (bloating, constipation), autoimmune disease, migraines, endometriosis, PCOS, fatigue, dizziness, allergies and getting sick all the time.

One of the hardest lessons to learn is what happens when you don't have your health (and then how to heal).

But, when you address the root causes behind hormone imbalances and address each of the pillars for building a health foundation - it IS possible to put many autoimmune diseases in remission, to finally not have chronic pain and painful periods like with endometriosis, to no longer have migraines - and to actually have ENERGY throughout motherhood.

That is transformation on a deep level - when you no longer identify as someone who has ______ and now you KNOW you are healthy.

I cannot tell you how good that feels when you make that transition. And it's so worth all the effort, the frustration, the struggle, the patience to get there.

This is what we create in the Deep Dive Experience.

03/10/2024

We are out here flowing like a river and having fun 🏞️🚀😎

Comment "MOTHERHOOD" and I'll show you how to create this, too.

23/05/2024

Mom's are wired to burnout. Expectations and meeting constant needs often leads to overwhelm.

And it's SO common for women/mom's to have thyroid issues, autoimmune disease, gut bloating and symptoms of hormone imbalances.

You know what these all have in common?

Dysregulated nervous system and emotional dysregulation.

In my experience, very few practitioners know how to really help patients with the mind body connection required to create a regulated nervous system AND create emotional regulation.

Research has shown that emotions & repressing emotions can lead to many different health conditions like autoimmune diseases, inflammation, GI/digestion symptoms like bloating, constipation, IBS. And we know that false narratives, beliefs and "high stress" can lead to high cortisol levels and negative thinking patterns that create anxiety, depression and can affect our immune systems.

We also know that repressing emotions can cause problems with our blood sugar, immune system and inflammation, digestion, the flow of lymph and because of all that built up tension and stress - it can lead to toxin build up that can affect our hormones due to waste build up.

All the functional medicine stuff we talk about here on a whole other level.

The biggest thing I did to heal my endometriosis and migraines was to learn how to regulate my nervous system.

The biggest thing I did to address my burnout, overwhelm and approach parenting with more calm and space... Learn how to regulate my nervous system.

I have personally seen this work help many other patients and clients with shoulder injuries, IBS, SIBO, ADHD, eczema and psoriasis, PCOS, anxiety, depression (when they thought nothing would ever work), diverticulosis and more.

And... Create the motherhood that is AUTHENTIC and perfect for them and their family.

Comment RECLAIM to join us inside my Nervous System Regulation Method where I am teaching you exactly how to regulate your nervous system over the next 5 days. 🧠🔥

23/05/2024

Being a mom is hard. Being a mom running a business has had its moments of being even harder.

But the mindset thought shift that helped me when I was starting to feel overwhelmed in my business has ALSO been incredibly helpful in motherhood.

How can I make this more fun?

I dream big and I love to get things done. I love what success feels like. I love achieving big things.

I will never try to change that because I love what that drive allows me to do...

Help more people. I love it when I hear that I do or have created helps people.

Like hearing "I no longer get anxious and completely overtaken when my ex is a jerk when it comes to coparenting"...

Or "My kid hugged me yesterday and said he could see how much work I've been doing, and then he started using the tools I've been modeling when he has been upset"...

Or "I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of me that I've been carrying around. It was exhausting. No wonder I felt overwhelmed everyday"...

But as an achiever who tied her self worth to those achievements, when I used to not get things done I would feel completely worthless.

I was also burned out and my immune system showed it. I had daily stress hives and I thought to myself, how on earth can I have kids like this??

I didn't want to parent from that overwhelmed place.

So... I set out to heal. And through that journey I realized that joy and fun had been something I eliminated from my life because I was so overcome with the "doing".

That's when I started asking this question, "how can make this fun?"

And that has served me in business as an entrepreneur and as a mom in so many ways. It's the thought pattern interruption I need to prevent the negative mental spiral that always leads to overwhelm.

How do you make things more fun? What mindset shifts work for you?

Follow for more and share yours in the comments! 💖

17/05/2024

We cannot address the immune system without addressing emotions and what's triggering the symptoms and burnout.

Inside the Mindset For Motherhood course I help mom's learn how to process their negative emotions by:

- Clearing stored negative emotions (we know the body remembers and keeps score and is one of the causes of imbalances, inflammation and disease)

- We identify triggers of the patterns of burnout and overstimulation like: if you dismiss the early signals that it's time to take a break because you feel the need to get more done, but you don't rest, and you keep going until you're so overwhelmed and overstimulated we want to focus on what those early signals are AND address the pattern that keeps you doing everything at the expense of your wellbeing.

- We learn what the emotions are trying to tell us. It's not that we never want to experience anger, sadness, fear, hurt, guilt or shame ever again. These emotions are here to tell us something.

Too many programs are trying to get people to not experience negative emotions. But that's unrealistic AND emotions are a big critical piece of using our intuition.

The problem is when we get triggered, express that emotion (and potentially in a way that we then regret and have to reconcile after), and then remain in a stressed state that it takes a toll.

Or... When we just stuff it down and completely ignore it because it's too painful to feel, that's a problem for your health and well-being too.

Kids are pretty triggering. They mirror back to you many parts of yourself and they know how to push your buttons.

These are all opportunities of areas you can shift and grow through.

And when you take the opportunity to do that you create space in your nervous system which helps get you into a healing state.

When we put this all together it compounds on itself creating more healing.

17/05/2024

I know you all are here for Mr Bjørns content - but also...

I didn't know that when I started my journey to heal burnout by letting go of so many patterns and stored stress and emotions that were no longer serving me, that I would also GAIN so much in return.

I literally got my life back. And I have so much gratitude for these little moments when I've chosen to slow down and be present.

Yes there's laundry on my kitchen table. Yes there's work to be done...

But these are the memories we will laugh at and look fondly back on. Not whether or not I got the laundry put away by 10 am today.

If you want to learn how you can create more calm and amongst all the "to do" list items be able to sit down and have a calm slow morning with your kiddos....

DM or comment RECLAIM and I'll send you more info to join me for a FREE 5 day workshop.

I will show you not only how, but also walk you through the integration and EMBODIMENT of it all too.

We are letting go to create more space, rewiring toxic patterns that keep leading to stressed, burned out and constantly doing more - but you feel more disconnected from yourself than ever.

I will show you how to RECLAIM your inner peace and calm.

Also - for those of you that will ask this is a Samoyed. He is a big white fluffy bear and he is the bestest.

09/05/2024

Hear me out... What if there was nothing "wrong" with you? 👀

Like yes, there may be things you'd like to improve, do better - I hear you there. But what if why you aren't getting results isn't because you don't "know" enough?

There's a lot of information out there. Lots of social media posts about how poor mental health is for mothers, postpartum depression, anxiousness and worry is through the roof...

How we need to be secure and confident and present parents for our kids...

How we need to heal our nervous systems and be less in fight or flight and then those pesky physical symptoms will go away....

But like.... HOW?!?!

I know and I got you.

There's a ton of information - but what we need is to step into communities where other women are ready to show up and play bigger.

They're ready to embrace the slow down, or are ready to press pause, speed up or do whatever it is that's perfect for them and their family. And heal the beliefs, the negative thoughts spirals, the times in their life where they learned something that wasn't actually true about them.

With the women who know that where they're at right now isn't working AND they know the power of transformation and healing.

You can read a book on how to swim, but until you actually jump in and learn... You don't actually know how to swim. 😎

If you're ready to integrate, to heal, to have the tools to show up for your kids in a way your proud of and in the process join a community of women who are growing and creating what THEY want to - then comment or DM MOTHERHOOD and I'll send you the link to join. 💖

19/03/2024

✨GIVEAWAY!✨ Today's the last day to grab my newest WORTHY workshop FOR FREE - and so many other goodies from a wide range of entrepreneurs. If you're not an entrepeneur that's ok! You can still grab the worthy workshop and anything else you see that suits your fancy!

Suzanne Castle Consulting has put together another incredible event for goal-getters and entrepreneurs.

And I've included my WORTHY workshop. If you've had your 👀 on it and been curious about it, right now is THE time to get it.

One of the biggest most common factors I have seen after working with a lot of clients around burn out, overwhelm and also overtraining is that the pattern is coming from somewhere.

There's a reason why it keeps happening. The stress, the anxiety, the negative mental spirals and false narratives that keep repeating themselves are all coming from a deeper pattern.

And one of these deeper patterns is a limiting belief that you are not worthy. Not enough. That you don't matter, or aren't significant. That you aren't worthy of being seen, heard or belonging. That you aren't worthy of receiving support.

And when you have that belief that you learned from a very young age, that's what plays out in your life.

You end up doing all the things leading to exhaustion & burn out because you struggle to ask for help. You can't seem to lose weight or get to full healing & recovery from a chronic health concern. I could go on...

But... When we shift the belief by re-wiring the brain to what we DO want, well now the brain is going to look for evidence of that belief.

When we know that we are WORTHY we show up differently. Maybe you're able to self-promote differently so you finally ask for that raise & you get it (this has happened more times than I can count with clients). You ask for support or finally delegate certain chores or hire help & it finally sticks.

You show up differently in front of clients & people you want to work with & they are magnetized to it.

THIS is how we shift your mindset so that the actions you take are aligned towards your goals. We create inner peace, we create softness & compassion in how you talk to yourself, we end the patterns of burnout & you get your energy back!

Ready to go? Head to: https://www.dreamdeciderise.site

20/01/2024

Re-wiring the brain IS possible - it's called brain plasticity and it happens throughout your entire life.

Motherhood is a great example of how the brain changes and re-wires. It's called matresence and it is literally the physical, psychological and emotional changes that a woman goes through in order to become a mother.

So, it's no wonder that we transition through grief of our old lives, identity shifts, and rollercoasters of emotions (all of which can be sometimes really painful).

But through that pain also means we GET transformation.

This is just one example of how our brains can literally change at any point in our lives.

This means that you CAN change your brain and your programming.

This means that if you are experiencing something in your life right now like burn out, overwhelm, anxiety, health concerns like inflammation, a bloated gut etc. you can change your brain to default to a *different* pattern.

There are different ways to do this like doing things that are not just hard, but things you don't want to do.

I hated running. I was a very slow swimmer (kind of still am), and I hadn't been on a bike for a decade after a crash when I was younger.

So I chose to train for an Ironman. Both hard AND brought me a fair amount of anxiety and determination to get out and do the things I didn't overly love or want to do.

These types of things change your brain.

But what about burn out, anxiety, overwhelm? Does that mean we need to go put more on our plate and do an Ironman?

No.

These are all signs of a deeper problem.

Signs that we have high cortisol and our nervous system is in fight or flight and dysregulated.

Signs that there may be have high levels of inflammation and all of this is likely creating and behind your fatigue.

Signs that we have lost connection with ourselves.

Signs that we are REACTING to our lives and we are normalizing needing MORE and MORE (which is never enough).

Signs that we are ignoring our wants and needs.

Your brain is defaulting to what it knows.

AND... the best news is that you can change it.

Send me a message if you want to get to the root and see LASTING change in your life, career, relationships & health.

20/01/2024

If you find yourself ignoring your emotions or trying to stuff them down, or if you find yourself being swept up by your emotions and out of control...
If you find yourself burned out, overwhelmed, and exhausted...
This one is for you.
Integration is another word for processed/healing/functioning together as a whole.
I have found that a lot of the approach to changing and improving our health, fitness, performance (at work or sports), to life is looked at in individual sections vs. approaching it as a whole.
For example we only look at the gut, or hormones, or just your thyroid, if you're tired look at sleep. If you're burned out maybe you need to change your job or rest more. If you're anxious it's probably your brain chemistry or maybe try therapy.
While all of these approaches may help, these look at individual systems and problems vs looking at the greater whole and how it all functions together.

Head to the link here for spotify

https://open.spotify.com/show/1q2Lc0XfYMVcrtjTdu40gf

and here for youtube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4BqNkahDAQvmEAaeMzBE8Q

to listen to today's episode or watch on YouTube! And if you like it, please consider subscribing and sharing with a friend.

Let me know what aha's you had in the comments 👇🏻

Dr Kirstin DC MS

08/08/2025

09/05/2025

18/03/2025

03/10/2024

23/05/2024

23/05/2024

17/05/2024

17/05/2024

09/05/2024

19/03/2024

20/01/2024

20/01/2024

Address

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Contact The Practice

Shortcuts

Share