Take Time to Believe

This episode invites listeners to redefine beauty throughGod’s eyes instead of the world’s expectations and reminds women that true beauty isn’t found in perfection, appearance, or trends—but in how we love, connect, serve, and let our light shine.Through personal stories, reflections from traveling theworld, and a tender experience with her daughter, Alicia explores how women often spend years chasing approval, comparison, and unrealistic beauty standards—while overlooking the beauty that already exists within them.

Have you ever given your best… and still felt unseen?In this episode, I share a personal experience that triggered feelings of being unappreciated—and the deeper pattern behind it: over-giving, over-proving, and tying your worth to how others respond.You’ll learn how to stop chasing validation, process the emotion instead of reacting to it, and reconnect with the truth:Your worth was never meant to be defined by others.Click here for a free Self-Appreciation Practice

When someone you love is overwhelmed by trauma, it’s easy to feel unsure of how to help without making things worse. In this episode, we explore what’s really happening during a trauma response, why fixing or explaining doesn’t work, and how to create emotional safety without losing yourself. Learn how to stay grounded, set compassionate boundaries, and support with calm presence instead of self-sacrifice.

In this deeply personal episode, I reflect on a sacredmoment in the Arequipa, Peru Temple that helped me see my pain—and my healing—through the lens of faith. Inspired by the story of the woman with the issue of blood, we explore why some wounds feel impossible to move on from, how our brains create lasting patterns of self-blame, and why the Savior’s mercy can still meet us no matter how long we’ve been suffering.This episode will help you:Understanding why certain memories and emotions lingerIdentify the beliefs keeping you stuck in emotional painLearn how to reach for Christ in the middle of your struggleReframe your "issue of years" as an invitation to healingWhether your wounds come from grief, betrayal, regret, orshame—this episode offers a way forward, through the healing power of Jesus Christ.Listen now and take your first step toward becoming whole again.

Replay episode, interview with Latter-day Life Coaches. "In this heartfelt and healing conversation, Heather sits down with self-worth coach Alicia Hall, who helps Latter-day Saints recover from the effects of toxic relationships by restoring wholeness through spiritual connection. Alicia shares her personal journey of escaping cycles of fear, shame, and self-blame, and how she found lasting safety and peace through Christ-centered healing.Together, they explore what makes a relationship truly “toxic,” how trauma reshapes the nervous system, and why compassion—not shame—is the key to transformation. Alicia offers hope-filled insight into rebuilding trust, restoring confidence, and remembering divine identity. Her message reminds us that healing doesn’t erase your story—it changes how you see it."https://aliciahallcoaching.com/biy/

When you don’t allow yourself to feel your grief — toactually sit in the pain, sorrow, and loss — it doesn’t disappear. It comes out through reactivity, defensiveness, irritability, or withdrawal.In this heart-centered episode, Alicia helps you uncover thehidden grief behind emotional reactions and teaches how to find healing on the other side of it. You’ll learn: * Why your reactions aren't who you are- they're protective reactions from old pain. *How to identify your personal cues of safety and how to return to feeling calm. *Why compassion-not judgment-is the pathway to healing. *How enabling the Saviors love can make your burdens light.This episode is a tender reminder that God doesn't meet you after you've healed- He meets you in your grief so He can heal you.Get on the waitlist today and be first to join the 'Believe In You' healing course. https://aliciahallcoaching.com/biy/

Your brain was designed to predict from the past—but God gave you the gift of reason to live in the present. In this episode, I share how old predictions shaped my self-image, how Christ helped me rewrite painful stories, and why it takes courage to step into new beliefs rooted in His love.

Feeling stuck in a difficult relationship? In this episode, learn how to set Christ-centered boundaries that protect your peace without sacrificing your love or values. Discover what toxic behavior really looks like, how to separate the person from the pattern, and why forgiveness doesn’t mean enduring moreharm. There’s a better way—and it starts here.

In this heartfelt episode, I share a personal struggle with a bike that wasn’t working right—and how it mirrors the way we often blame ourselves when things feel hard. From feeling invisible in social settings to questioning our worth, I explore the common, deeply human experience of not fitting in.We’ll talk about:The difference between "fitting in" and "belonging",How past wounds shape your current beliefs,The spiritual truth of who you are and why you're needed,A personal story of connection followed by divine guidance,And a practical 5-step method of finding belonging when you feel out of place.By the end of this episode, you will see how you already belong—you are needed, just as you are.

If you’ve ever found yourself overthinking, shutting down, or replaying conversations long after they’ve ended, you’re not alone—and you’re not broken. In this episode, I’m sharing why these reactions are actually your nervous system’s way of trying to keep you safe, especially if you’ve experienced emotional neglect, criticism, or felt like your voice didn’t matter. We’ll explore how safety isn’t just physical—it’s emotional, mental, and spiritual—and how disconnection from yourself can lead to cycles of anxiety, people-pleasing, and self-blame. I’ll walk you through how to recognize these trauma responses, why they make sense, and how to gently return to inner safety, truth, and peace.🎧 Tune in now to start healing from within.💬 Want personal help with this? Book your free coaching session at aliciahallcoaching.com.

The voice of shame can often sound like truth with statements like, you should do better, you shouldn't have said that, what's wrong with you, and so forth. But without the awareness of what shameful thoughts you keep having, you will remain stuck in believing the worst about yourself and become distant from the One true source of truth, your Savior.In this week’s episode of Take Time to Believe, I’m talking about the sneaky ways shame shows up in our lives—through our thoughts, our habits, and even our physical reactions—and how it disconnects us from the Spirit and the truth of who we really are.If you're struggling with shameful thoughts, here's a worksheet that will help you take a deeper look so you can practice transforming those thoughts into spiritual truths.http://aliciahallcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/ShametoTruth.pdf

Feeling weighted down by the pressure to do more, to be better but despite your best efforts you'll still only see how you're falling short. Why? Because of how you're defining perfection.Subconsciously you've created rules of what is required of you to be or do enough and when you're not meeting those expectations then out of habit, your inner critic will remind you of what you're doing wrong. But it doesn't have to continue this way. In this episode I'll share with you a new way to define perfection that can help alleviate the pressure of being enough and learning to trust that you are always enough.

Experiencing feelings of discomfort when someone is upset, either with you or just in general, is your nervous system feeling dysregulated. In this episode I'll help you understand why you feel the urge to fix or change how the person feels, needing to defend or explain yourself, or question what you're doing wrong.And how you can feel better without trying to manage everyone's emotions or punish yourself when your efforts don't work. Link to:What's in My Controlhttp://aliciahallcoaching.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/What-I-Do-Control.pdf

The expectation of being loved, of expecting others to love you, can created more heartache than joy in your life.  While God commands us to love, it's not the commandment itself that has causes pain, but the expectation of what love should look like and believing that the people in your life are responsible for you feeling 'loved' or not.We all have an idea of how we want to be loved, an idea of what we define as loving, but so does God. Tune in to this week's podcast where I share with you the insights God shared with me about love and how to feel more of His love in my life regardless of how others might be showing up.

When you've spent most of your life seeking validation andapproval from others, out of habit, you'll look for evidence of what you can believe about yourself from others too. Confirming truth based on how they treat you, if they agreewith you, or evidence of your worth based on what you’ve been through.Only believing what you are seeing, without questioning ifit's true because you're seeing evidence of what you're already believing.In this week's podcast episode, I share how the confirmationof what is true isn't found from what you see outside of you, but by how it feels from within you. Making it easier for you to live by faith of what you feel is true, despite your circumstances.

We are all showing up from the beliefs we have about ourselves, which makes it important to learn how to intentionally choose beliefs that will help you live in line with who you want to be. This comes from being able to create personal boundaries. There are clear boundaries you are willing to set with others but when you lack creating boundaries within yourself, your emotions & thoughts will choose your life experience for you.A personal boundary is about intentionally choosing the thoughts you're willing to allow into your life, and learning to allow emotions without resisting, reacting, or avoiding them.In this week's episode I'll teach you what a personal boundary is and how you can learn to apply it to your mental and emotional wellbeing. Giving you the opportunity to live from your best self and create the life experience you desire.  

It is one thing to be critical of your own shortcomings but having someone else find fault with you or make threats if you do not comply with their "rules" can be a paralyzing experience.This can easily leave one in a state of trauma, constantly overthinking every action or word, and living in fear of others' reactions.In this week's episode, I will discuss the mindset tools I use to help me detach from the effects of another's behavior, gain a clearer understanding of their behavior, and foster deeper healing within myself.Follow this link to access my Coping Strategies worksheet from my website;Alicia Hall Coaching | Empowering women to reclaim their life from betrayal trauma and emotional abuse.

We all experience fear, but what happens when fear starts to take over, making it difficult to think clearly, feel calm, and access your ability to function normally? Your fearful reaction is most likely a habit reaction and not coming from actual danger around you.In this episode, I share five steps you can use to break the habit reaction from feeling anxious, afraid, and panic, to feeling safe, calm, and collective.You have the ability to create calm, peace, and clarity more in your life with the daily practice of connection through meditation. Join me on weekdays, at any time that works best for you, and start creating an increase of peace in your life. Use the following link to get started today!https://aliciahallcoaching.com/daily-meditationFeel free to share with a loved one or friend too!

Ever struggle with feelings of guilt or shame for taking time for yourself? Worried about being seen as selfish, lazy, unproductive, or irresponsible? Or do you make excuses as to why you shouldn't make time for you?This week I'm going to teach you how to let go of shame drama around personal self-care, so you can tune into your needs and give yourself permission to take time for you.You deserve personal connection every day, join my guided meditation calls to help you reconnect to your truth, power, and worth! Click the link belowhttps://aliciahallcoaching.com/daily-meditation

Creating expectations is your brains way of living with certainty. It feel safer than feelings that come with uncertainty of what could happen. However, when expectations aren't being met or you're feeling burdened with the pressure of meeting someone else's expectations, you're left with feeling the negative emotions you're trying to avoid. Certainty is the opposite of faith. Certainty is based off past experiences and isn't always a guarantee. Faith on the other hand, is trusting in a source that is constant, sure, and foundational no matter what happens. Tune in to learn how you can replace the weight of expectations and uncertainty, with increased trust & faith. Generating feelings of peace, confidence, and hope.

Worrying is a normal human response when you're trying to prevent something from happening. It seems useful and necessary. However, the real reason you're trying to prevent something from happening in the first place, is so you won't have to experience feeling negative emotions, when in fact, worrying creates more negative emotions than not worrying. This happens because your brain can only solve for what's happening in the present moment. When you allow yourself to stay present, focused on what's true in the moment, then you'll find you have the ability to thrive through it. In this episode, I'll teach you the difference between a dive and thrive mindset and how you can choose to thrive regardless of the situation you're in. Please join me for more practice in being present and thriving in your life with my weekday meditation calls. Use this link to begin today! https://aliciahallcoaching.com/daily-meditation

Struggling with being reactive, easily triggered with anger, frustration, stress, anxiety, overwhelm, & resentment doesn't mean you're a monster or a bad person. It means you have internal fears, and your nervous system only knows how to respond with reactions because it's kept you alive all this time. If you want to stop reacting, you'll need to start with learning how to regulate your nervous system. In this episode I'll teach you how the nervous system works so you can learn how to regulate it before it gets out of hand again. I've got you! Also, for all of my listeners, you can now participate in my weekday meditation calls to help you put in the practice of regulating, being present, and maintaining control of you. Just follow this link, https://aliciahallcoaching.com/daily-meditation

When you're still associating painful thoughts about yourself, to the actions, words, or behaviors of others, then it's time to heal the way you're seeing yourself. You've created associations of your worth to the way others reacted or treated you, since you were a kid. Creating negative narratives in the way you see and treat yourself because you believed you should in order to feel accepted, loved, wanted, or belonging. But these associations have remained with you as an adult and it shows in the way your trauma narratives take over when you're feeling triggered. But it's possible to change these associations and finally start seeing yourself as the true, lovable, worthy, and valued person you truly are!

When all you see is how your needs aren't being met, you're not being seen, heard, understood, or treated with love and kindness, you might start to wonder if you're even wanted. This feeling of unwanted can leave you stuck in feelings of isolation, shame, and even despair. Causing you to question other's motives, build up walls of defense, and keep to yourself, creating more reasons to believe you are unwanted. In this week's podcast episode, I'll share with you my personal journey and struggle of feeling unwanted and the tools I'm using to help me change this perspective. Creating a new way of seeing myself and my situations, so I can create the experience I want to have that leaves me always feeling loved and wanted.

When it comes to the difficult people in your life, it may seem beneficial to blame them for how difficult your life is, but have you noticed how you're the one who's left stuck in misery and chaos, constantly thinking about what they did or said? What if there's another option available for you to walk away feeling confident and peace of mind? In this episode I'll teach you how you can improve your experience no matter how the difficult people in your life choose to behave.

When you're feeling triggered by something, your natural response will be to avoid it, become reactive, or completely shut down. But all of these options only keep you stuck in the cycle of feeling triggered, feeling powerless to it. But there's another approach that will not only heal the source of your trigger but will also help you show up feeling calm and confident.

Do you feel like you have no other choice? Are you bending over backwards trying to keep the peace, keep them happy, prevent a reaction or attack, trying to earn their approval, but after all your efforts you're still feeling like it's not enough? In this week's episode I'll help you gain awareness of what's preventing you from feeling valued and appreciated, how to break out of the habit of needing another's approval of your efforts, and confidently know you're doing enough.

When negative emotions surface, the natural response will be to change something in order to feel better. Leading you to find fault and blame with the circumstances or people around you and pointing out all the things that should change so you can feel better. This can sound like, "if they didn't do or say this then I wouldn't be feeling this way." or "if this didn't happen then I wouldn't feel this way." While it might seem great to live in a world where you could convince others to change or be able to change what has happened, it would also leave you with the burden of having to change in ways you disagree with, at the expense of someone else's happiness and desires. In this week's episode I'll show you how blaming the things outside of you are causing you to feel worse and what you can do instead.

When you're willing to wait for cookies to bake before enjoying, clothes to wash before wearing, and a shower to heat up before washing, why does waiting for an answered prayer, promised blessing, or result from a test seem so wearing? In this week's episode, I share with you a new perspective about waiting and how it can not only increase your faith in Christ, but you will also experience greater joy through the waiting process.

With an endless "to-do" list of all the things you need to do and only seeing what you're not doing, it's easy to fall into believing you're doing it all wrong or there's something wrong with you. So many equate the ability of what you do and accomplish to your worth and value, making it easy to beat up on yourself when we aren't completing everything on your list. Believing you're falling short, not doing enough, and therefore you're not enough. In today's episode, I'll help you learn how to separate your worth and value from your "to-do" list and learn the practice of redirecting your focus to what matters most.

Do you wish your life experiences could be different? Do you have a hard time accepting what is, or blame the way you're feeling on what's happening around you? Are you living with feelings of stress, regret, anger, worry, or shame? In this week's episode, I show you what's keeping you stuck in memories of your past, preventing you from being able to heal, see what's true, and how you can finally change this.

Anyone who experiences any form of abuse can easily get caught up in the idea that they are a powerless to another's behaviors. Thinking it's somehow your fault, believing you are broken or worthless. In this episode I will share with you why you might blame yourself, how you might be continuing the harmful behavior towards yourself, and how you can end those harmful habits that prevent you from healing and living your life to its fullest. If you find yourself feeling stuck and powerless, I invite you to get on a FREE coaching call with me. Go to my website at aliciahallcoaching.com and click on the free coaching button. You don't have to remain stuck any longer.

When you put a lot of emphasis on your ability to trust others based on their actions and behaviors; it can often lead to a lack of trust within yourself. In this podcast episode I will help you to see where you might be preventing yourself from living your life to its fullest because of someone else's choices, and how you can reestablish trust within yourself.

When you've been taught to be your best, to be better than you are, you'll find yourself in a place of always falling short and never being enough in some way. When you've experienced abuse on top of this, it makes sense you would struggle to believe you have great worth. This week, I invited one of my friends, coaches, and coaching colleagues to share with you a profound perspective he learned for himself, "It's not about becoming, it's about remembering". In this interview with Tyson Bradley, we go deep into the concept of "remembering." That instead of you seeking to change yourself and wishing you were different, you seek to "remember" the truth of who you really are. And in this remembering you are able to more easily create habits, achieve desires, and live at a higher level. If you want to learn more about Tyson and his work, he has prepared a special invitation just for my listeners: ⁠⁠https://www.tysonbradleycoaching.com/alicia⁠ For more ways of connecting with or learning from Tyson go to: ⁠https://www.inherentidentityfamily.com⁠  Tyson's book: Reclaim Your Inherent Identity: The 5 Steps To Bypassing Your Brain And Creating Lasting Change Instantly: Bradley, Tyson: 9798864978979: Amazon.com: Books

Stress, overwhelm, disappointed, and lonely are all common human emotions we feel. It is also common to blame others for the reason you feel them. This blaming, however, can leave you feeling powerless in your life. As though you have no other choice but to feel this way because of what someone did, didn't do, or said. In this week's episode I will share with you how to get out of "blame mode" and move into feeling empowered instead. I'll guide you through what it looks like to "own your own" and create greater peace, calm, and joy back into your life. From the episode: Register below to sign up for the 21-day challenge, Back to love | Alicia Hall Coaching

There are a lot of opinions out there on how you should be living your life, what your life should look like, what you should be doing, what you should be wearing; so, you can be accepted or "fit in". The problem is you believe them because you've had experiences that left some painful marks and taught you that acceptance and love needed to be earned. In this week's episode I'm going to teach you some tools on how to let go of those beliefs, see beyond the marks you've been given, and connect with the true source of love and acceptance.

We often believe that the thoughts we have are an observation of our lives. But I have learned that my observing thoughts are actually an optional story I'm choosing to tell. But it doesn't always feel optional when you have strong emotions about them. I get it! In this week's episode I'm getting vulnerable and sharing with you some of the stories or thoughts, my brain comes up with about me and my life, and the formula I use to help me get a new perspective. It's not about thinking positively, it's about realigning with your inner wisdom.

When you're wishing your life were different or wishing for others to change their behaviors, you might be stuck in a victim mentality. In this episode I will guide you through what victim mentality is, how it's learned, and how you can put an end to the negative cycle.

Since you were little you were taught what is or isn't acceptable to be included, accepted, or loved in society. Little did you know that these "rules of acceptance" are causing you more pain as an adult than you could comprehend as a child. In today's episode I share with you what rules you might be holding on to and living your life from that is hurting you more than helping you. You always have a choice in what you feel is acceptable for you, just make sure your rules are in line with helping you intentionally live from the person you want to be instead of reacting automatically. Would you like help uncovering your rules and seeing how you can keep them without being the one left suffering for them? I invite you to get on a free coaching session with me and I will teach you how. Schedule your free call today by going to my website www.aliciahallcoaching.com.

When you've spent most of your life believing you're not enough or questioning your worth, it can be difficult to believe that you are loved. Especially when the actions, words, and behaviors of others are anything but loving. In this episode I invited my good friend and coaching colleague, Heather Rackham, to share with us her experience in understanding and applying Christ-like love, even towards those who were most difficult to love. The three books mentioned in the episode are: Loving What Is by Byron Katie, That We May Be One by Tom Christopherson, and Original Grace by Adam Miller. To access the Latter Day Life Coach Directory, go to Life Coaches for Latter-day Saints (ldslifecoaches.com)

In today's podcast I share with you words of wisdom I've learned by age of 40. That's right, I just had my 40th birthday and I have some great nuggets of advice that you can apply to your life today to help you create greater peace and joy in your life. Have a listen and leave me a review of which one you liked best.

How do you forgive someone who's choices or actions are not at all in line with something you can agree with, or when you are still hurting and suffering from the effects of their behavior? After a journey of trying to heal and let go for myself, I came to accept that maybe it just can't happen in this life. That I would have to wait for the Savior to come to make the hurt go away. But I found this isn't the case. Healing and forgiveness, no matter what has been done, is absolutely possible! In this podcast I'll share with you the insights and understanding I gained through my healing journey and the formula of forgiveness that the spirit disclosed to me, so I could completely let go and truly feel love towards my offenders.

Anytime you are in a state of worry, fretting over what could happen, what might happen, or putting all your focus on trying to prevent worst case scenario, then you are also preventing yourself from accessing your inner wisdom. In this episode I'll share with you how worrying isn't helping you and what you can choose instead. And how you can access the inner wisdom within you that will always result in best case scenario.

It's easy to believe everyone else has it all together, is confident, or happy while you're watching from the sidelines feeling miserable and only seeing how you're falling short or doing it all wrong. Well, I'm here to tell you, it's not just you. You're not alone in any of it and I know this because I feel this way too sometimes and everyone who has a brain and feels emotions is too. But the good news is, you don't have to stay here. In this episode I'll share with you how to put a stop to the spin-out of negative thoughts, soothe your nervous system, and get back to the present moment so you can feel in control again.

If you're holding on to negative beliefs about you, being hard or critical of who you are and what you say or do, then you've framed yourself into an image of what isn't true and it's time to reframe what you're seeing. In today's episode I will share with you steps you can take that will not only help you create a new way to see yourself, but will also help you connect with how the Savior sees you too.

If you've experienced betrayal trauma and after years of help from a therapist and are still feeling stuck in trauma symptoms (ptsd), this episode is for you. I will share with you a new way to view trauma as well as effective tools I use that have not only helped me to heal from the traumatic experiences, but also helped me change the way I was seeing myself. I will also share with you the five steps I guide my clients through in their healing journey. Books mentioned in episode regarding trapped emotions: "Feelings Buried Alive Never Die" by Karol K. Truman and Paul D. Henry ⁠Amazon.com : feelings buried alive never die⁠ And "The Body Keeps the Score" by Sean Pratt ⁠Amazon.com : the body keeps the score⁠⁠Alicia Hall Coaching | Empowering women to reclaim their life from betrayal trauma and emotional abuse

We all want to feel accepted, a sense of belonging, yet most people go about it in a way that only leaves them often feeling rejected. This comes from being hard on yourself, constantly focusing on your flaws and doubting your abilities, which only perpetuates the rejection cycle. To believe that you must be hard on yourself to be better than you are is a form of self-rejection. The opposite of rejection is acceptance. Accepting who you are, how you feel, and creating awareness to why you feel this way, will help you live more into the person you want to be. In this episode, you'll learn more about why you're hard on yourself and how it hurts you and prevents you from forward growth, and how you can change this debilitating habit.

When life throws you something unexpected it's easy to fall into a place of believing something has gone wrong, it wasn't supposed to be this way, or that you must've done something wrong. But life was never meant to be all or nothing it was always meant to be 50/50, where we experience opposition in all things. In this episode I will teach you how learning to accept what is and allowing how you feel in the moment will give you the opportunity to choose how you want to experience your life and who you want to be going through it.

Most of us weren't taught how to feel or process through our emotions, instead we were taught to resist, avoid, or react in them. In this episode, you will not only learn the skill of processing through an emotion, but you will also gain greater insight as to why doing so will be a tremendous blessing in your life! For a guided recording to help you process through any emotion, you can download my free app, Always Enough. Always Enough on the App Store (apple.com) Always Enough - Apps on Google Play And for more help in developing this skill, schedule a free coaching session through my website at Alicia Hall Coaching

I used to believe my thoughts were the way I observed what was going on in my life. When I realized my thoughts were the meaning I was giving to my circumstances and that they are completely optional, this changed everything for me in the way I now choose to view my life experiences and the way I show up in my life. In this episode, I'll help you learn how to identify what a thought is, how your thoughts can make all the difference in the way you feel and experience your life, as well as how to create new thoughts patterns that will feel more in line with who you are.