What if the hardest moments in your life weren’t obstacles, but opportunities to train a stronger perspective?

In this episode, Felicia explores the art of reframing, the skill of consciously shifting how you interpret challenges, responsibilities, and setbacks so they work for you instead of against you.

Drawing from martial arts, neuroscience, personal recovery, and life experience, this episode walks you through how reframing becomes a trainable skill, not positive thinking or denial.

You’ll hear a powerful personal story about where this practice began, why language matters more than we realize, and how small, intentional shifts can change how you experience your life, especially during seasons of transition.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

* Why reframing isn’t ignoring reality, it’s choosing perspective

* How “I have to” language quietly creates resistance

* The science behind gratitude as a practice, not a feeling

* How habit stacking helps mindset changes stick

* Why outdated habits may no longer serve who you’re becoming

* How small actions, repeated daily, reshape identity over time

Featured Resource

Free Download: The 5-Minute Daily Gratitude Protocol


A simple, science-backed daily practice to help you train perspective, build resilience, and reframe challenges with intention.

👉 Download here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/14G80QI9CU5CoemBjoRbwF8WIVG_tueoz/view?usp=drivesdk

Wellness Resource Shared in This Episode

🔗 Felicia’s Vivacious Health Wishlist
https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/myaccount/wishlistlistId=68d5490ce60c3a000af15112&enrollerId=29766610&sponsorId=29766610&userName=Felicia

Shared as a resource for those looking to make small, supportive adjustments to their daily wellness routines that align with energy, recovery, and consistency.

Train & Connect with ROC Martial Arts Academy

Train with us at ROC Martial Arts Academy, where lineage, tradition, community, and real self-protection meet transformation beyond the mat.

🌐 Website: https://www.rocmartialarts.com


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* Leaving a review or comment to help spread messages that uplift, ground, and genuinely help

Thank you for listening, and for choosing to keep moving forward, one small adjustment at a time.

Train your body. Strengthen your mind. Choose who you become.

Transitions are uncomfortable, not because you’re failing, but because you’re shifting.

In this episode of Secrets Beyond the Mat, Felicia Finn explores the power of micro adjustments, the small, intentional shifts that help you stay balanced, grounded, and moving forward during life’s in-between seasons.

Drawing from decades of martial arts training, coaching, and lived experience, Felicia shares how real transformation doesn’t come from forcing change or starting over, but from learning how to adjust when things feel uncertain, awkward, or unstable.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, exhausted, or unsure of your next step, this episode offers a steady, practical perspective rooted in resilience, alignment, and self-trust.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

• Why pushing harder isn’t always the answer, and what works instead
• How micro adjustments help you start before you feel “ready”
• Why transitions feel unstable (and why that doesn’t mean you’re failing)
• How small shifts build confidence through feedback, not perfection
• The connection between alignment on the mat and balance in real life
• How identity is shaped quietly through consistency and adjustment

Key Takeaway

You don’t need a full reset to move forward.You don’t need to become someone else.You’re often just one small adjustment away from stability, clarity, and momentum.

Recommended Resources

Deep Spectra™ Phyto Nutrition - Young LivingReferenced in this episode as a way to support energy, recovery, and nourishment through natural, plant-based nutrition, especially during physically or emotionally demanding seasons.

🔗 Felicia’s Vivacious Health Wishlist:
https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/myaccount/wishlist?listId=68d5490ce60c3a000af15112&enrollerId=29766610&sponsorId=29766610&userName=Felicia

(Shared as a resource for those looking to make small, supportive adjustments to their daily wellness routines.)

Train & Connect with ROC Martial Arts Academy

Train with us at ROC Martial Arts Academy, where lineage, tradition, community, and real self-protection meet transformation beyond the mat.

🌐 Website: https://www.rocmartialarts.com
📱 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19u8u7AYug/?mibextid=wwXIfr
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocmartialartsacademy?igsh=OTQ2czJ0NTAybnp1

Enjoying the Podcast?

If this episode resonated with you, consider:

• Subscribing or following Secrets Beyond the Mat
• Sharing this episode with someone navigating a transition
• Leaving a review or comment to help spread messages that uplift, ground, and genuinely help

Thank you for listening, and for choosing to keep moving forward, one small adjustment at a time.

Your most powerful recovery tool is free, limitless, and already inside you … your breath.

In this episode, Felicia Finn shares how breathwork transformed her energy, discipline, and healing. She tells the story of discovering breathing through hot yoga and Wim Hof — the surprising moment intentional breath fueled her from sluggish and exhausted to cleaning her entire home in one day. That led her deeper into the science of nasal breathing and recovery, inspired by James Nestor’s book Breath.

You’ll learn why breathwork matters for stress, emotional regulation, endurance, energy, circulation, and resilience, both on and beyond the mat. Expect practical tools like nasal box breathing, and the science behind why it works.

Today’s small win: 5 nasal box breaths:

In 5 → Hold 5 → Out 5.

If this lifted you today, please follow, like, and subscribe. Let’s grow stronger together.

Recommended Resources

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor→ Check it out here: https://amzn.to/3XU5waK

Deep Spectra™ Phyto Nutrition (Nutrition as Recovery Fuel) Young Living

Felicia’s reference link:→ https://www.youngliving.com/us/en/myaccount/wishlist?listId=68d5490ce60c3a000af15112&enrollerId=29766610&sponsorId=29766610&userName=Felicia(Product also referenced in episode for supporting energy and recovery through nourishing the body naturally.)

Train & Connect with ROC

Train with us at ROC Martial Arts Academy, where lineage, tradition, community, and real self-protection meet transformation beyond the mat.

🌐 Website: https://www.rocmartialarts.com

📱 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/19u8u7AYug/?mibextid=wwXIfr📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rocmartialartsacademy?igsh=OTQ2czJ0NTAybnp1