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Katy Bandy - The Mindful Coach

▪️Challenging Status Quo ▪️Conscious Activism 🍃 Therapist/Writer/Coach for Soul-Searchers & World Builders 🍃

01/04/2026

2026 Vision Board ✨
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The best way to change a system is to subvert it. Fighting only strengthens it. May this be the year we drop out, and create something new.
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01/04/2026

Seeing SO many people posting about going analog makes me happy. Social Media use peaked in 2022 and there has since been a 10% drop in use. GenZ especially is moving off these platforms 🙌🏼
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I’ve known for the last couple years that I no longer want an ‘online business’ so to say. I have not had the goal of selling anything (courses or services) on social media.
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Do I have a small place online that I will occasionally inhabit? Yes. However, more and more I feel much happier when I’m off it (which doesn’t mean I’m staying uninformed about issues, or not taking community action for positive collective change ).
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Social media is another ‘producer / consumer’ economy where the owners profit the more addicted we are. They need producers to wave shiny things and keep the consumers hooked. Social Media does not reward nuance, depth or slowness - it rewards hot takes, emotionally triggering & polarizing content.
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They keep algorithms ever-changing so business owner’s are constantly chasing, with the unspoken message that if you just sacrifice enough or your time, energy, health, and maybe even soul, you just might be the lucky one to hit the jackpot!
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This is not a statement that marketing on social media is ’right or wrong’. There is no judgment here. Each person gets to decide for themselves what works for them, based on their personal goals and values. It’s not ‘all or nothing’
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A question I’m asking myself this year: Are you using social media? Or is social media using you? I want to move with the rhythm of nature, which is real, real slow. Cause being omnipresent online as a business owner just isn’t for me.
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I will be writing at a sloth’s pace.
Sharing on a whim.
Focusing on active client work.
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Best way to find me will be email 😆🙌🏼 (website in bio)
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How will you be using social media this year?
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11/26/2025

*Disclaimer: Dialectical Thinking is NOT:
-Ignoring harms.
-Staying ‘neutral’ or being passive.
-Using ‘devils advocate’ to justify harms.
-A lack of boundaries when power is being a8u$3d.

It is a PROCESS to better understand multifaceted truth, so we don’t fall for the trap that there is only ONE right way, our own. That just leads to deepening rigidity and polarization.

➡️ Non-Dialectical thinking hunkers down and refuses to acknowledge the validity in another perspective.
➡️ Non-Dialectical thinking believes it is ‘conceding ground’ if it validates an opposing idea.
➡️ Non-Dialectical thinking believes validating an opposing perspective AUTOMATICALLY means polarizing over into that opposite EXTREME.

Dialectical thinking is BOTH/AND.
It is the middle way.
It is synthesis between paradoxical extremes.
Validating truths in opposing ideas.

Have you listened to the Mindful Soul podcast episode ‘What is Truth?’ yet? Check out the link in my bio to learn more about this topic!

11/25/2025

Dear humans, it’s time to dream outside the box. It’s time to challenge every norm you’ve ever been taught. To ask, who benefits from it? What power holds it?
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🪨 We’re done with the old ways. We can change our minds. We can change our systems. We just have to participate.
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🌏 It’s time for something new.
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Which is your fave?
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11/18/2025

The next step of human progress must be one of consciousness 🧠👁️ It’s time for us to re-evaluate…. What are we aiming for exactly?
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Which is your fave? Share it! 😃
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11/12/2025

🫣 I WISH avoiding people, places, things and ideas ACTUALLY solved problems 😂 … it doesn’t.

The narrative that you should never talk about religion or politics is one that was created to protect SYSTEMS that benefit from POWER over others.

Obviously, we want to be mindful about when and where we have these conversations (with willing participants, generally NOT on social media), AND we want to build the skillset needed to have them effectively… however avoiding them completely is not effective.

What do you think?

11/05/2025

🇺🇸 The USA has polarized into extreme individualism.
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➡️ the stark ‘pull yourself up by your bootstraps’
➡️ ‘asking for help is a weakness, figure it out by yourself!’
➡️ ‘if you’re struggling you must just be lazy or individually flawed.’
➡️ the refusal to support social safety nets with our tax dollars (and yet we’ll pump that money into the war machine and subsidize corporations).
➡️ blaming the individual for struggling, rather than seeing how society and environment have a huge impact on development and functioning.
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⚖️ The GOOD news is that we don’t have to lose our individualism when we ADD in collectivism and community care. We can do BOTH - at least when thinking dialectically.
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🧠 Notice how these social norms (which vary by culture - some polarize into collectivism) may have seeped into your own psyche and what that effect has been.
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Which of these do you polarize more into, and what’s something you could do to bring more balance?
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11/04/2025

🇺🇸 When you look at the current state of the world and especially what’s happening in the USA, it’s clear that we need a re-assessment of our values.

What are we aiming for? It it simply wealth accumulation for the individual and power of one group over another?

Until we can understand the dominant cultural norms that have driven Western Culture into harmful extremes, we will keep struggling to create a world with more health and balance for all living things.

➡️ Check out my latest blog post ‘Colonialism Today’.

It’s time for an awakening of consciousness.

What do you think?

10/30/2025

💯 Learning to question your own mind is a strength.
💯 Learning to question norms you were taught is a strength.

👁️ Mindfulness and dialectical thinking helps us see non-judgmentally that there are many different ways to approach life - not just one singular ‘supreme and best’ way.

⚖️ They help us determine what is most effective so that we can cause fewer harms and live in alignment with our values.

What do you think?

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