Ep 31: Emotional Mastery, Nervous System Healing & Mindset Shifts

Ever feel like you’re doing all the “right” things… but fulfillment still feels just out of reach?

In this episode of Courage & Purpose, I sit down with Keenan Crisp—a former paratrooper turned yoga teacher, and now transformational performance coach—to talk about what real inner work looks like when you’re leading, healing, and trying to show up fully for your life.

Keenan shares the practices and mindset shifts that helped him move from high-functioning survival mode into deep presence, healing, and leadership. We unpack the nervous system’s role in burnout and self-worth, how early complex trauma creates unconscious patterns of protection, and how emotional mastery isn’t about perfection—it’s about creating space between the trigger and the response.

This conversation is a permission slip to soften, breathe, and rewire your relationship to stress, success, and self-worth—especially if you’ve been operating like your value is tied to your achievements.

🔥 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

Why high achievers often miss the emotional roots of their burnout

The power of somatic practices and nervous system healing to create internal peace

How to stop outsourcing your worth and feel safe being seen in your authenticity

How the identities we build to survive can block our joy, love, and fulfillment

What it really means to feel enough—without striving to prove it

🧠 Key Insight:
“You can’t think your way out of what your body learned in trauma. But you can create enough presence and safety to feel your way through it.”

🌍 Connect with Keenan Crisp:
📲 Instagram: @keenancrispcoach
🌐 Website: foundationsforsuccesscoaching.com
🔗 LinkedIn: Keenan Crisp

📬 Connect with Diana:
🌐 Website: www.lifeonpurpose.coach
📲 Instagram: @lifeonpurpose.coach
🔗 LinkedIn: Life On Purpose Coach
🎙️ Podcast: Courage & Purpose