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How To Transform Your Morning Chaos Into Peace With Early Morning Habit™ Star Katelyn Kiehl

July 09, 2024 • Ahna Fulmer • Season 3

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ABOUT THIS EPISODE:

What if you could turn your chaotic mornings into moments of peace and empowerment? Join us as we talk to the incredible Katelyn Kiehl, a mother of four, who found a transformative path through the Early Morning Habit program. Katelyn opens up about the unique challenges of her life, from early morning nursing sessions to the general chaos that comes with parenting young children. She discovered the program on social media and was deeply moved by its holistic approach to health and wellness. Katelyn shares how the focus on a structured morning routine and a dedicated sleep regimen revolutionized her daily life, especially during the empowering capstone week. Her journey is a powerful reminder of how important it is to set healthy patterns, even in the busiest of times.


Kick start your own revival by renewing your morning.  Say 'thanks' to Kate for sharing her story by joining Early Morning Habit through her link. Let’s rise. https://ahnafulmer.com/early-morning-habit/?ref=ktkiehl



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00:00:00Transforming Morning Chaos to Peace

00:12:48 Finding Inner Peace Through Stillness



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Speaker 1:

You guys. This is the amazing Caitlin Keel. She is here to share with us her experience with early morning habit and I'm so grateful that you're here and willing to share. I would love to hear, just to start, when you learned about early morning habit and what the program entailed. What initially drew you to it, what about it? Did you think like I could use this initially?

Speaker 2:

Yes, I think, Ana. I first heard about early morning habit, probably on social media, although I'm sure many of our times going out to dinner you were dropping hints here and there of something that you were really passionate about.

Speaker 1:

I try really hard not to sell to friends.

Speaker 2:

So I'm always like, yeah, I know my life, but yeah, you did a great job of not completely giving it all away and selling it, but I loved the idea of it becoming a habit and that was kind of a good key for me of like, oh, maybe I do need that and I loved. I loved your work with early morning habit and just hearing other people giving their testimonials and I recognized in my life this wasn't a perfect time to step into starting an early morning habit with a little one who was waking up at an ungodly hour.

Speaker 2:

What I considered an ungodly hour to nurse in the morning, so I knew-.

Speaker 1:

What are your four children's ages? Share with everyone. You've got four kids very close in age.

Speaker 2:

Yes, they are seven, five, three and one and she's still vertical. You guys, we are, we are and she yes. So she's still nursing, still getting me up early, but it's been a good habit to put in place now, so I'm ready to roll here now as she's sleeping later.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, yeah, but, but share so yeah. So I love that perspective. So it's so funny because we had a couple people in the pilot program who initially I was like I actually don't recommend early morning habit If you are in certain seasons like breastfeeding a child and still getting up at night, or pregnant. We had one woman literally go into labor during early morning habit and her her feedback and testimony is amazing, Um, and how early morning habit transformed her life and set her up for a very difficult experience after she gave birth. So I love how I said like, okay, here's seasons where I don't recommend this program and we had multiple women shatter that illusion and do it anyway and crush it. So anyway, you were one of those.

Speaker 1:

So that woman that woman who's in that position, who has got multiple young kids and who feels like I would love the concept of becoming more of a morning person, establishing this habit, but life is just too crazy. Like that was really the, the season that that you are and were in. Um, what was it that you were like? No, I need this and this is why I'm doing it. What was it about the program that drew you to it?

Speaker 2:

Yes, well, I think you said something key there, anna, and that was season.

Speaker 2:

Because, as moms, life goes, those first um months or a year with my littles um, where I was up, all you know, all hours of the night, and so an early morning program did not sound appealing at all, or wouldn't have sounded appealing at all in that in that season.

Speaker 2:

So you're right, I don't think this is for every mom, especially if she is in the throes of, you know, of infancy with little ones. You're exhausted, but I think they can still gather lots of informative healthy habits and tips just looking at holistic health. But for me personally, I wanted to go through this program to do my best that I could with my little one waking up early, trying to build in a healthy habit now so that when she would be sleeping in longer which she started, she is starting to sleep in longer, that I already had that healthy pattern established of getting up in the morning and starting my day well pattern established of getting up in the morning and starting my day well, yeah, I love that perspective, which is very similar to what Alex, one of our community members who gave birth, said.

Speaker 1:

also, her fourth child, you know, said similarly, as she wanted to be setting herself up. Well, when you talk about the morning routine for the women who are not familiar with early morning habit, what about the program then, would you say, did pay off for you, meaning you did the program. These things were especially helpful for you, even despite this crazy mom season that you're in with young kids. Crazy mom season that you're in with young kids. What, especially, was sort of like stand out, like yeah, this was really transformational for me.

Speaker 2:

Oh, I felt like I was able to pull something from every chapter. There are a lot of things that I'd already learned, or just you know, we're familiar with looking at holistic health, but I was always able to learn something new, whether it was skincare or eating differently or, you know, not counting the carbs or looking at the weight on the scale, getting in the protein sleep regimen, that was a that was huge for me. It was that was a game changer, because I recognized I was not doing well going to bed at night, kind of closing down the day um to start um well in the morning, and so that was a big one for me. Um, I think my favorite though, anna, was your last chapter. That was kind of like the capstone course for me.

Speaker 1:

Oh, like the week six training.

Speaker 2:

Yes, yes, the other five weeks were really awesome. I was able to learn from that, but that was the most like. That was really empowering for me as a mother and a woman to kind of step in, like to lip into that and then step into my circles of influence with my littles and recognizing I can do this and I can have influence. But looking internally first at my heart, and leading with a humble heart, doing all the hard things that I need to do inside of me to really be the best that I could be for them, so that that was that was probably the most impactful for me.

Speaker 1:

Oh, I love that. I have goosebumps. So for those of you not familiar, and obviously you need to join early morning habit to get all of the details. But you know, one of the heartbeats of the program is we are trying to change some of your perspective of health and wellness and fitness, which you know Kate's alluding to with these holistic concepts. We take this high level holistic health overview and then we dive deep really fast, but what we end with is this concept of you know why are we actually worth investing in as women, especially busy moms? Because you're just, it is the season where you just get really worn down, and so what? What he is talking about is the last training video, where we mentioned one of our superpowers as women, divinely given, which I believe is the gift of influence, and so we talk about why that is how that is and then ultimately really solidifying why you are worth the investment right, why we even bother with self-care.

Speaker 1:

So I love that feedback. I love that. I love that, yes. What would you say specifically to the mom who's in a similar position as you right now? Maybe their kids are slightly older, maybe they're not breastfeeding a kid at night, um, but she's concerned about either. She goes to early morning habitcom, she's reading about the program, she's listened to some testimonials, but she's still a little hesitant about either the time commitment, the money or the potential loss of sleep. What would you say to her?

Speaker 2:

Nothing important is easy. Nothing important is easy and I love that early morning habit was building habits. It wasn't just talking about, like you mentioned before, healthy eating, exercising, but it was building habits. And Justin Whitmell Eerly writes a lot about habits and how we become our habits. Our kids become us, and I recognize that joining early morning habit would be an investment not only in myself and my health, my, my habit, but my family and for me, like that was a win for all of us.

Speaker 1:

I love that we could preach that all day long, that you become your habits, your children become you. I mean that preaches over and over again, because they will definitely be seeing what we're doing. One of my favorite questions to ask if you could describe how you felt, or how your morning felt in one word before early morning habit versus how the transformation that you saw specifically in your own experience, in one word after early morning habit. What would it be For me, for example, if in my own experience, of course, it took me significantly longer to get this experience, hence why we created the program. But for me it would be from chaos to calm, would be like my, my sentence. What would you say? Nothing like putting someone on the spot, but what would you say yours is.

Speaker 2:

Oh no, that's fine. You know, honestly on a chaos was the first word that came to my mind too, you can use it. Yeah, okay, then after early morning habit, I would say peace. You know I was not an early riser or an early morning person prior to having kids. Yes, after having kids I lost the alarm clock because they were my alarm clock. They were, they were getting up.

Speaker 1:

Child. If only we could snooze our children, that would be so nice Snooze. If only we could snooze our children?

Speaker 2:

that would be so nice. Snooze, yes, thank God for at least like green light alarm clocks, which have worked well for our kids as they're getting older, but little who are still nursing and calling from the room next door wanting to eat. You know our morning would kind of start whenever they were getting up. Um, you know, our morning would kind of start whenever they were getting up. I would get up, have my first cup of coffee and, um, you know, I have a little bit of my quiet time.

Speaker 2:

Um, just as we were sitting there nursing and diving deep into god's word, and then, whenever that clock turned green, usually around seven o'clock, the rest of the kids, the chaos, the fun, the craziness, the kind of all start and I felt like I was playing catch up. I was still trying to get my morning workout in the mix of, you know, working with kids and getting breakfast and then finally showering and feeling like I start my day, like I would start my day 11 o'clock in the morning and early morning habit. Obviously, you know, working on getting up earlier and earlier, but I really have, can I say, become a morning person.

Speaker 1:

Yes, yes, yes, you can say that, indeed, I'm not.

Speaker 2:

Yay, what defines a morning person? But like like I covet that time in the morning just to get up and breathe and to go through that like emotionally intelligent gratitude and diving deep into God's word it on the weekends, because I know it's going to help me get ready for the littles, as they're bringing in all their emotions and excitement and you know all the highs and the lows and I felt I feel like I'm ready to step into that.

Speaker 1:

I love that and it's so neat to hear you know the perspective, because that I mean your story is like my story. It it's like our story. It's this idea of just there's so much chaos, especially as moms, and there's an emotional chaos, there's a mental chaos. There's the physical chaos of just time, the calendar chaos that exists, and you know it's a weariness that goes deeper than what a nap can solve.

Speaker 1:

It's like you said, it's that inner sense of chaos that is just draining, because it's pulling from like every single dimension of our health, and it's hard to put words to it. But women, especially moms, they get it. They're like, yes, the weariness that a nap can't solve, I get it. And so then it's like, okay, well then, what's the answer? And even as Christian women, it's like we know that. You know, come to me all you who are weary and burdened, I will give you rest, and we know that. But there is something about the stillness that makes sense, because scripture also says that, that stillness and we saw Jesus do this as well, where he went off to a solitary place to pray it's like if the King of the universe needs stillness in this world to connect better with the heavenly father, then how much more so do we need it to find that peace. And so I just so appreciate your sharing and for women those of you listening and watching.

Speaker 1:

You know the, the prayer, the heartbeat is to truly help you start your day. Being not doing, being still with intentional time, strategies and tools that we're going to give you to ultimately know God and love him more and start that day with peace, and so I just I'm so grateful for you sharing with peace, and so I just am so grateful for you sharing, for you sharing that.

Speaker 1:

Ladies, as a thank you to Kate for sharing her story, we would love to have you join the revival at earlymorninghabitcom, but you can click on her link. It is going to give her sort of a thank you referral reward for anyone who signs up through her link, and so if her story resonates with you and you join our community, would you just say thank you by clicking on that link to sign up. Kate, I love you, I'm so grateful that you're here, I'm grateful to have you in the program and sharing your story.

Speaker 1:

Oh, it's my pleasure, Anna.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely.

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