Dr. Kim Andrews

Dr. Kim Andrews Holistic Psychotherapist Dr. Kim Andrews a Transformational Life Coach working to bring you to a place of inner peace without medications.

Using the May Cause Miracles text by Gabrielle Bernstein to reduce depression and anxiety.

Join Wind and I for and evening of regeneration and relaxation.
02/06/2026

Join Wind and I for and evening of regeneration and relaxation.

Join Wind and I for an evening just for you to regenerate and relax.
02/06/2026

Join Wind and I for an evening just for you to regenerate and relax.

Join us for The Sun & Moon Workshop, a 2-hour journey through the full energetic spectrum.Using intentional movement, so...
02/03/2026

Join us for The Sun & Moon Workshop, a 2-hour journey through the full energetic spectrum.
Using intentional movement, sound, meditation, and the nourishing ritual of Abhyanga, you'll learn how to awaken vitality while supporting the nervous system. This experience teaches the importance of building a more reliable and balanced relationship with both effort and rest in daily. Hope you can make it. Message me and I’ll be happy to send you the details.

Shadow work isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you.It’s about remembering you were never broken.You are not here to ...
02/02/2026

Shadow work isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you.
It’s about remembering you were never broken.

You are not here to transcend parts of yourself.
You are here to reclaim them.

The parts you learned to hide, soften, or silence?
They aren’t flaws.
They’re unmet energy.
Life force that learned to contract to stay safe.
And they carry medicine.

What we call “dark” is often simply energy that did not receive safety, mirroring, or permission to belong.

Both your tenderness and your sharpness.
Your devotion and your resistance.
Your longing and your rage.

When awareness is brought to what was once rejected,
the nervous system softens.
The body exhales.

This is how integration occurs.
This is how alchemy happens at the cellular level.

The shadow is not weakness.
It is unmet life force waiting to be re-circulated.

Within it live instincts, boundaries, creativity, truth—
qualities that were never wrong, only unwelcomed.

To meet your shadow is not to descend into darkness,
but to return to wholeness.

And wholeness, once remembered, is deeply liberating.

If this stirred something in you, stay close.
More to come on shadow, embodiment, and returning to yourself.

You don’t need another mindset trick.You need psychological flexibility.This is the skill that determines whether you st...
01/25/2026

You don’t need another mindset trick.
You need psychological flexibility.

This is the skill that determines whether you stay stuck… or actually change.
Psychological flexibility has three parts—and none of them can be learned intellectually.

1. Awareness
Being “present” isn’t something you think your way into. It’s a somatic skill.
It’s the difference between reading about ice cream and actually tasting it.
Real awareness happens in the body, in real time.

2. Openness
This is where most people get stuck.
You don’t need to fix your emotions or get rid of them—you need to feel safe enough to experience them. We are conditioned to avoid pain, but avoidance is what keeps pain running your life. This is why support matters.

3. Valued Engagement
Not the values you inherited.
Not what society rewarded you for.
But what actually matters to you when you slow down enough to listen.
This is where alignment replaces urgency.

This work isn’t passive.
It’s experiential, embodied, and deeply personal.

If you’re ready to stop managing symptoms and start changing how you relate to yourself and your life—

I currently have two openings for individual clients.
If this speaks to you, book a free consultation call and let’s see if we’re a fit.
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The question that ended my first marriage wasn’t “Why isn’t this working?”It was: “What do you want?”When my first marri...
01/19/2026

The question that ended my first marriage wasn’t “Why isn’t this working?”
It was: “What do you want?”

When my first marriage was falling apart, I went to therapy looking for answers, insight and instruction.

Instead, my therapist asked me a simple question— that sent me into panic.
What do you want?

I didn’t know.
Not because I was confused—
but because I had been conditioned to comply.
Not because I didn’t want anything—
but because I had never been asked.

I had been trained to comply.
To adapt.
To look outward for the answers.

I had spent a lifetime being shaped by expectations:
the patriarchy, productivity culture, religion, education,
and the quiet message that a “good woman” adapts.

My own desires were irrelevant—until they weren’t.

That question exposed something uncomfortable:
I had built a life without ever consulting myself.

That marriage didn’t fail because we didn’t try hard enough.
It failed because I didn’t know myself.

In the moment when I realized that no amount of achievement, stability, or “doing everything right” can compensate for self-abandonment everything changed.

If you are successful, responsible, admired—and quietly disconnected
If being asked what you want makes you anxious this is why, you were never taught how to claim yourself.

I work with women who are done over-functioning in their own lives.
Women who don’t want surface-level coping tools,
but real internal authority.

If you’re ready for deep, embodied work—
DM me “READY.”



These words reflect what happens when women stop outsourcing their inner authority.When they begin to listen to themselv...
01/12/2026

These words reflect what happens when women stop outsourcing their inner authority.

When they begin to listen to themselves.
Trust themselves.
And choose their lives on purpose.

This work isn’t about fixing who you are.
It’s about remembering who you’ve always been—
beneath the roles, the pressure, the expectations.

From the outside, your life works.

You’re capable. Accomplished. Respected.
You’ve done what you were supposed to do—

And yet… something is missing.

Many women arrive here not in crisis,
but in quiet dissatisfaction.
A sense that they’ve outgrown the life they built
while disconnected from themselves.

This work is for women who are ready;
To trust their inner knowing again.
To make decisions that feel honest—not strategic.
To create a life that reflects who they are now, not who they had to be.

DM READY if you feel it.



We spend so much time talking about thoughts and emotions — but rarely about the food we consume and how that effects ou...
01/09/2026

We spend so much time talking about thoughts and emotions — but rarely about the food we consume and how that effects our mental wellbeing.

Your brain runs on nutrients. Your nervous system needs consistency.
And no amount of positive thinking can override a body that’s under-fed, over-caffeinated, and running on stress hormones.

This isn’t about perfection.
It’s about awareness.
About choosing foods that support you instead of pushing through exhaustion.

If you’re tired of feeling anxious, wired, or depleted — start with your plate.

Save this.
Share it with someone who could benefit.
And let food become part of your healing, not another thing to control.

And if you’re ready to work at the root level, comment READY.


Often people ask me how I got into the work that I do. It began with lived experience.With the moments that cracked me o...
01/08/2026

Often people ask me how I got into the work that I do.

It began with lived experience.
With the moments that cracked me open and forced me to reckon with what I’d been carrying—much of it not even mine.

It began with slowing down enough to listen to my body after years of overriding it.
With noticing how urgency, productivity, and “success” were often trauma responses dressed up as ambition.
With realizing that what I was calling discipline was sometimes just inherited survival.

This work required shadow.
Meeting the parts of me shaped by silence, responsibility, and generational patterns of self-abandonment.
Letting myself see how much of my drive came from nervous systems that never felt safe enough to rest.

I chose alignment over urgency.
Presence over performance.
Truth over spiritual bypassing.

I created spaces I once desperately needed—spaces where you don't have to earn rest, justify your boundaries, or explain your pain away.
Spaces where healing isn’t rushed and growth doesn’t require self-erasure.

I’m learning that leadership doesn’t always look loud or polished or perpetually “on.”
Sometimes leadership looks like quiet assurance.
Like tending to the body and the unconscious before chasing expansion.
Like slowing the lineage forward instead of repeating it.

Everything you see unfolding now was rooted here first.
In the quiet work.
In the unseen unraveling.
In the decision to stop passing down what was never meant to be carried.

If this resonates, it’s not random.
It’s recognition.


Happy New Year ✨Before you decide who you should do this year…Let me ask you something more honest.What are you actually...
01/06/2026

Happy New Year ✨

Before you decide who you should do this year…

Let me ask you something more honest.

What are you actually available for in the year ahead?
What are you done tolerating in your body, your nervous system, your emotional life?
What have you understood about yourself—but not yet changed?

If nothing shifted externally this year…
but you felt calmer, more grounded, more trusting of yourself—
would that be enough?

So many thoughtful, capable women want “more ease”
yet keep living with constant tension, stress, and low-grade anxiety as if it’s normal.

It’s not a lack of insight.
It’s not a failure.

Often, It’s about learning how to work with your body, emotions, and inner world—rather than managing them from your head alone.

Let this be the year you stop managing yourself—
and start listening more deeply.

Sit with that.
More soon.

— Dr. Kim

When the days get short and cold, our nervous system naturally shifts.Our mood dips.Our energy softens.Our body asks for...
12/03/2025

When the days get short and cold, our nervous system naturally shifts.
Our mood dips.
Our energy softens.
Our body asks for slowness… but our culture still pushes for productivity.

That mismatch is what creates the overwhelm, the heaviness, the “why am I like this?” spiral.

This is why tending to your mind and body in winter isn’t indulgent—it’s protective.
It keeps your emotional resilience intact.
It helps your hormones stabilize.
It prevents burnout from taking root in the dark.

Support yourself by choosing one act of warmth:
✨ a grounding tea ritual
✨ candlelight instead of harsh bulbs
✨ a walk that reconnects you to your breath
✨ blankets without guilt
✨ saying no to what drains your life-force

We’ve been told for years that mental health is only about brain chemistry—like your emotions exist in a vacuum, separat...
11/21/2025

We’ve been told for years that mental health is only about brain chemistry—like your emotions exist in a vacuum, separate from your body, your relationships, your energy, and your daily choices.

But here’s what I’ve seen over and over:
You can take the meds, do the talk therapy, breathe, journal, meditate…
and still feel overwhelmed, anxious, or emotionally drained.

Not because you’re “broken.”
But because your boundaries are exhausted.

When you keep saying yes out of guilt…
When you ignore the knot in your stomach…
When you let people take more than you actually have to give…
When your nervous system never gets to exhale…

No amount of coping skills can compete with that.

This is one of the biggest myths in mental health:
That healing is only internal.
That it lives only “in your head.”

But healing is also how you protect your energy.
How you honor your body’s limits.
How you stop abandoning yourself to stay “nice,” “useful,” or “easy to love.”

This is why I moved out of the traditional psychotherapy model and into a holistic empowerment coaching approach.
Because true healing requires a bigger lens—one that includes:
✨ your emotions
✨ your boundaries
✨ your energy
✨ your body
✨ your lifestyle
✨ your inner truth

If you’ve ever wondered why you’re doing “all the right things” but still feel drained… this is usually the missing piece.

This is a main pillar of the work I do with women how are ready to put themselves first. Visit my website www.drkimandrews.com to schedule a consult with me.

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