Stepping Into Next-Level Work
For the last week I’ve been taking a pause to regroup for the next level—shaking off a cold I caught from the kids, yes, but also recharging with excitement and fresh energy!
I also watched Wicked during this pause and was completely blown away. It’s brilliant—and it carries one of the most important foundations of health: owning your greenness and having delusions of grandeur. Watch it with that lens and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
As a musician, I absolutely lit up at how it connects life, health, and music—all woven together in a way that moves your body, your heart, and your spirit. It even inspired me to start getting ready to play my flute consistently again!
My favorite song from the show is Defying Gravity - right here.
I’ve been joyfully pulling together my ideas, connections, and systems. I just got approved and am now officially certified with my first HeartMath® Clinical Certification for Stress, Anxiety and Self-Regulation.
I’ve already started the more advanced HeartMath® Interventions course, which will also lead to another certification.
I’ve also joined the most extraordinary coaching academy of my career. All of this is elevating the connections I bring into my writing, my 1:1 vitality work with clients, and my corporate systems work.
From here forward, my posts are going to build on everything I’ve shared so far—elevating it with next-level clarity and impact.
What Caught My Attention
“Every system is perfect for the result it gets. So if you want a different result, put in a different system.” – Steve Chandler
Steve Chandler has been one of the biggest inspirations in my coaching life. He’s often called the godfather of coaching, and this quote of his has been echoing in my head for years.
Every system is perfect for the result it gets.
That means if you’re not happy with the result you’re getting, the system you’re living inside of is set up perfectly to produce exactly that. The good news? You don’t need to fix you. You need to change the system.
And if we’re talking about health—if your current system isn’t giving you the vitality you want, then the system itself needs to be changed to one that will. Not only is this possible—it is far simpler than the current longevity movement would have you believe.
What I See
In health, people think they’re trapped in a system they can’t change:
“After a certain age, my body just declines.”
That’s the belief. That’s the context. And it’s pretty much bullshit.
Yes, you’re getting older numerically. Your organs are technically older. But that doesn’t automatically mean decline. Someone in their 60s can have better organ function, more energy, more vitality, better fitness, and even better skin than someone in their 30s or 20s who doesn’t take care of themselves.
Are You Trapped in the Context of Old?
If you are, you didn’t put yourself there. You believe this is a pre‑existing context you were born into: after your 40s, you start declining fast, so you’d better accept it, worry about it, and fear getting old and dying.
Who says that’s true? There are thousands of exceptions in the world—people who have created their own context and owned it. And because they owned it, their minds and bodies responded.
The older you get, the deeper you get pulled into it. And when you believe so strongly that aging equals decline, your body listens. Your cells, hormones, and biochemistry—they respond to every word of that belief.
This Connects Directly to Your Biochemistry
This is NOT some woo‑woo “state of mind” idea.
Few people talk about the thousands of other possible contexts out there—many of them grounded in science, physiology, and measurable outcomes.
For example: if you live in a system of constant stress, your body has to keep producing cortisol. Cortisol is made from cholesterol. So of course your cholesterol goes up. It’s not just random genetics or bad luck—it’s the system producing the perfect result for the inputs.
Your body is always trying to work with what it has. The real question is: what system are you putting in place to help it do its brilliant job?
It’s the same with skin. If you drink alcohol every night and then point to your wrinkles as proof of “getting old,” you’re ignoring the system. The alcohol is the system. The wrinkles are the result. Yet most people normalize it: “Oh, a glass of wine a night is fine.” Then they throw money at a skincare routine instead of changing the system.
What System Are You In Right Now?
Before you can create a system that works for you, you have to see the one you’re in right now.
If you’re exhausted all the time, what system are you living in?
Is your bucket full of energy leaks—people who drain you, work you hate, obligations you never chose?
Are you in a relationship just because society told you to stay?
The results you’re living with today are not a mystery. They are the perfect output of the system you’re in.
And the moment you see that, you stop asking “What’s wrong with me?” and start asking the real question:
What system do I need to create to get the results I want?
It’s not you—it’s the system you’re living inside.
This piece originally appeared on Substack.
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Beautifully worded, Helena! Profound yet fully rational. I think the mammalian brain has to take care of the neo cortex..... a cat would never get into the situations that humans get involved with.
Have a look at Netflix's Untamed, episode 6 to see what I could have become if I hadn't had our conversations!