Kristen Brickl, LPC

Kristen Brickl, LPC COUNSELING + COACHING FOR MIDLIFE
Teaching incredible women and men how to revolutionize their lives and claim their highest vision

02/24/2026

WOMEN IN MIDLIFE…do you fulfill or ignore your deepest desires and LONGING? How to know if YOU’RE STUCK IN SCARCITY AND MANAGING vs. FULFILLING LONGING FROM DESIRE.
Midlife confronts us ❤️-to-❤️ because we’re essentially at the 1/2 way point of our lives. Women by design (physiologically because we have a womb) are here to INCUBATE LIFE ITSELF. THIS INCLUDES OUR DESIRES and CREATIONS BEING FULFILLED. Many women in midlife have lost connection with their longing and stay stuck in the “shoulding” on themselves.
How do you relate to your deepest desires and longing? Do they stay dormant and tucked away? Or are you taking action to bring them to life?

02/23/2026

WHY PEOPLE HAVE ADDICTIVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH SUGAR (or any substance or behavior that is used for SELF SOOTHING).
If there WASN’T a CONSISTENTLY SAFE, WARM, CONNECTED primary relationship to bond in WHILE HAVING NEEDS FOR NOURISHING MET, babies learn it’s just easier and safer to their survival to FIND COMFORT and SOOTHING IN THE SWEETNESS OF THE MILK.
Many of my clients admit they have a frustrating, shameful, stuck relationship with sugar, alcohol (which metabolizes in the body as sugar), online shopping, etc. because it’s become a reliable coping strategy for stress.
This safer attachment for survival started in early childhood development and can ONLY BE HEALED presently in re-learning that there can be warmth, safety, bonded connection in relationship.

02/21/2026

There’s a difference between HONESTY and the TRUTH and I think we’ve been confused. There’s no shortage of information inundating us in the spirit of “being honest,” but “truth” hits different in a way tha generates body resonance. Truth is undeniable in its vibrational frequency.
We are all having to decide right now about how we digest informational honesty, or stepping into the embodiment of radical truth.
If something lights your body up and LANDS all the way down to your dna and bone marrow, it’s likely a TRUTH that is wanting to reveal itself to you and inspire you to LIVE DIFFERENTLY.
If something elicits a strong reaction and you immediately jump to your head in agreement or defensiveness, it’s likely informational honesty that won’t actually cultivate greater unity, connection, or change.

02/20/2026

I said what I said. We are living through a collective empathy and intimacy deficit right now. It seems people are losing the interest or skills to cultivate these core tenants of real relationship. People come to therapy because something in their life and identity isn’t working.
Many trained therapists hide behind a formal role and only reinforce or validate the current identity. They cut off from nuance, intuition, humanity, and real connection in the therapeutic relationship. Clients may come to new understandings and insights, but not really translate that to living their lives differently.
We cannot truly heal without including all parts of our being—body, energy, mind, emotions, nervous system, the gatekeeper, the youngest parts, your intuition, the critic, the future self. BOTH THE THERAPIST AND CLIENT. My job is to help reveal ALL OF YOU within the context of the depths of our sacred relationship, and teach you how to channel new energy and awareness in real time through your vessel/body that inspires new actions out in your life.

02/14/2026

The difference between BEING A LAZY QUITTER and ANXIOUSNESS vs. SURRENDERING when taking time to slow down. How do you feel when you take time for yourself?
I still struggle with this one. It’s so easy for me to be totally swept up in managing everything externally at the cost of neglecting my inner world. Consistently overriding deeper desires for ease, intimacy, creativity, connection has a cumulative effect. Over time this hyper focused functioning forms a BLOCK TO RECEIVING.
When you imagine slowing down, do you immediately feel glitchy? Who has time for that, right? That’s the difference between MANAGING life and being able to RECEIVE and CREATE life. When we talk about slowing down, we have to also look at your CAPACITY and WORTHINESS FOR RECEIVING.

02/04/2026

If you’re totally honest with yourself, are you MANAGING your life or actually CREATING a life you love? Most of us, myself included, go through chapters of sleepwalking through life.
When the inner voice of knowing is calling you to more, to better, to elevate…but taking action feels paralyzing, overwhelming or scary, your tendency is to get hyped focused externally. This is a distraction tactic to keep you where you are…in the manage and maintain of your life.
One small step towards becoming the CREATOR of your life is to change your state first. Your state is your physiology = mindset, energy, physical body. When you shift your state with daily steps that are attainable (ie walks, mindfulness, exercise, following through on ANYTHING that you said to yourself you were going to take action on) you build trustworthiness within yourself.
Day by day, you’re feeling courage, more confident. Eventually you’re ready to step into creating your life…even if that means burning some things down first before you build.

01/26/2026

WHY MY APPROACH IS DIFFERENT
I assign soulwork/homework to every client that is intuitively channeled during session AND believe in the healing power of a therapeutic relationship that flows two ways. I have cried with clients, I hug my clients, and make sure they feel deeply seen and loved.

Most of our wounds happen in relationships, and MUST be healed in relationships that finally feel safe enough for you to be authentically free.

01/22/2026

Why managing your inner world is exhausting and limits your fulfillment. Almost every reason people overfuntion, expend a lot of energy managing their inner world and can at times be reactive is because of PROTECTION. On the outside it appears as if this person has their s**t together, or they are perceived as overly controlling.
Behind the scenes though, this is someone who is exhausted by having to control as many variables as possible because that was once what was required to feel safe. So it’s not that they’re a control freak, it’s that they’re AVOIDING UNCERTAINTY.
Historically uncertainty = fear/volatility/survival instincts. Much of what I do with clients during the early stages of working together is unlearning and rewiring their brain and nervous system to tolerate uncertainty. Over time, uncertainty starts looking like curiosity about being fully alive.

01/19/2026

✨Intuitive Readings✨ are back! My intuition has shifted over the years. Before my divorce I had strong psychic abilities to relay messages from deceased love ones (including belove animals), and most of those sessions brought comfort and closure to people.
During my divorce my intuition all but disappeared due to a hijacked nervous system and too high cortisol levels. In survival mode, we disconnect fro softness and receptivity.
Now, two years post-divorce my ✨intuition✨ has revealed itself as channeling people’s imprints in terms of soul path, purpose, decision making, and seeing what’s possible. It’s super juicy!
Every reading, clients leave feeling a renewed sense of direction, clarity, confirmation one way or another, and are tapped into the high level manifestations that their soul came to take inspired action on this lifetime.
Intuitive Readings are 60 minutes via Zoom. Book here or link in bio.
https://kristenbrickl.com/work-with-kristen

01/14/2026

Are you a HUMAN DOING or a HUMAN BEING? By midlife, many of is are so deeply entrenched in the doing of managing and maintaining that we have forgotten to even recognize any value in the being.
You recognize you’re sleepwalking through midlife because that knowing voice inside of you is talking (or screaming) at you daily! You know what you need to do, and you’re not doing it.
It’s never too late and you have not missed the boat! Midlife asks us “What do you really want? Are you willing to wake up to the TRUTH OF YOUR BEING and claim it?”

01/08/2026

See the tests! And pass them! There are two kinds of people, imo.
CATALYSTS who are here serving because they are NOT consciously growing, improving or able to take accountability. Catalysts acan be triggering and often present tests for for the other type of people who are what I call EVOLVERS. These are people deeply committed to growth, change, responsibility, and raising their consciousness.

Without the CATALYSTS the EVOLVERS wouldn’t get the opportunities to evolve. The next time you’re triggered by, upset, disappointed, angry, stuck in a quagmire with someone, can you recognize it as a test?
The practice for EVOLVERS is to see the CATALYST presenting the test. To receive it as a gift, as an opportunity to deepen and expand their light. To not go low vibe or take the bait. What’s rad about this clear seeing practice is that TESTS turn into OPPORTUNITIES!

01/06/2026

2 QUESTIONS THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING
Asking yourself these two questions ALL DAY LONG is an absolute game changer in terms of practicing energetic alignment and mindset which are ALL WE HAVE CONTROL OVER. The more frequently you practice re-directing what’s out of alignment back into elevated alignment, the FASTER YOU HEAL AND MANIFEST what’s meant for you.

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