Why Do I Keep Repeating the Same Mistakes? | Kate Mulholland

Calm the Chaos with Rich Christiansen · Jul 22, 2026 · 39m

In this episode, Kate Mulholland tells the whole story: growing up believing that people always leave, chasing relief through every religion, substance, and relationship she could find, and hitting a rock bottom she describes as having a basement beneath it.

What finally worked was not more insight. Kate had been in therapy for years and had all the head knowledge she needed. What changed her life was learning that trauma lives in the body, and that we do not rise to the level of our ideals in a hard moment. We fall to the level of our nervous system, and how she leveraged that to heal.

Rich…