Total Health: Dr. Kate Steiner of ‘LIFT Wellness Consulting’ On How We Can Optimize Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing

One of the most important practices that I use myself and that I ask my clients to use for emotional health is to allow feelings to come and go in a flow like a wave. Often, we have practiced “being fine” so well that we discount from our emotions and they can become hard to define. Using a feelings chart or the wheel of emotions can help us in naming what we are feeling. Give yourself space and time to release emotions. Two places that I use for emotional release are in the shower and driving by myself. Feelings of hurt, sadness, overwhelm, and anger are the feelings that I most need to have a space to release and both the shower and the car provide a place for me to yell, curse, cry, or shake my fist. Sometimes I find myself blocked, meaning that I have so ignored my emotional health that I am not able to connect to my feelings anymore.

As a part of our series about “How We Can Do To Cultivate Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Kate Steiner.

Dr. Kate Steiner is a Burnout Recovery Coach and the Founder and CEO of LIFT Wellness Consulting, LLC. She works with clients to achieve wellness through recovery and self-care practices. She obtained a Master of Counseling degree from Idaho State University and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Wyoming. Dr. Steiner has been researching burnout and wellness for 20 years. Through her research she developed a new sustainability and wellness model that is anchored in a self-reflection process. One of her favorite burnout recovery practices is dancing, if the…