About Living and Loving Your Life with Chantel Allen
Learn how to stop overthinking and overdoing so you can connect to the one thing you shy away from: your emotions.
I’ll show you how to align your head and your heart so you can harness the power of emotion to take control of your life and create the impact you dream of.
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Hearing the Music Again: God-Winks, Faith, and the Dance of Life
Show Notes:
Have you ever felt like you’re going through the motions — praying, parenting, working, showing up — but it all feels heavy, flat, and disconnected?
In this episode, I share a story from an eight-hour drive home from Las Vegas where God reminded me of something powerful: life isn’t about getting the steps right. It’s about hearing the music.
We’ll talk about:
✨ What it looks like to “dance without music” (and why it’s so exhausting)
✨ How to rediscover the rhythm of the Spirit in faith, parenting, and everyday life
✨ Why God’s voice often shows up as quiet winks — small, ordinary moments we usually miss
✨ Five practical ways to start hearing the music and noticing God-winks daily
✨ How living with the music yourself helps the youth in your life learn to recognize it too
This episode is for you if you’re tired of going through the motions and long to feel the peace, love, and connection that only come when you hear the music of God again.
🎧 Grab a notebook and listen in — because once you start noticing God’s music, you’ll never want to dance without it again.
15 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
I Haven't Done This in 8 Years... Why I Finally Stopped
Have you ever felt that nudge inside—that stirring that says, “It’s time to move again”—but you’re terrified of starting because you might stop again? That’s exactly where I’ve been.
In this first episode back, I share why I stepped away from coaching, podcasting, and creating for the first time in over 8 years—and why stopping wasn’t failure at all, but actually an act of faith.
We’ll talk about:
The messy middle of the in-between seasons of life
Why stopping can feel like failure, but is sometimes the most faithful thing you can do
The rhythm of inhale and exhale—pulling back to be filled and then stepping out to give again
How loneliness, the noise of the world, and even anger can actually be invitations to draw closer to Christ
Why God can’t move a parked car—and why I’m finally choosing to move again
This isn’t about having it all figured out. It’s about taking the smallest step, trusting that God will guide the rest, and letting your exhale carry love into the world.
👉 Whether you’re in an inhale, an exhale, or that sacred pause in between—this episode is for you.
10 Apr 2025
When You’re Tired of Always Being the One Who Reaches Out
Have you ever found yourself wondering, “Would anyone reach out if I stopped trying so hard?”
That quiet ache of not being chosen, not being invited, or not feeling truly seen—it’s real. And it hurts.
In this deeply personal episode, I open up about a conversation with my daughter that mirrored a theme I see not only in my clients, but in myself: the ache of wanting to belong, to be picked, to matter without effort.
We talk about:
Why being overlooked triggers something deeper than just disappointment
The neuroscience behind why this ache sticks with us (even when we are loved)
The subtle ways we abandon ourselves trying to be chosen
A simple yet powerful walkthrough to start healing this ache in real time
How to reconnect to the part of you that’s waiting to be seen by you
This isn’t about pretending it doesn’t hurt.
It’s about learning how to stay present with the ache, how to honor what’s real, and how to come home to yourself in the moments you feel most invisible.
If you’ve been in a long season of “hard,” if you feel like you’re white-knuckling your way through connection, or if you’re simply tired of always initiating—this is for you.
Links & Resources
Let’s connect on Instagram → @chantelallencoaching
Learn more about coaching with me → chantelallencoaching.com
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Inside a recent episode
Hearing the Music Again: God-Winks, Faith, and the Dance of Life
Published 26 Sept 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And slowly as I let go of forcing the steps, I started to hear the music again. And it's been faint, you know, it still is a little bit faint at times. I can hear it, but right now, it's enough. So I want to kind of expand this idea around what is the music. Because we say this and it was like, yeah, that sounds really great. But what is the music? What is the music of our lives? What is the music of our faith? What is the music of anything? I believe take us with however you want to take it, but I believe the music is the spirit. It's the emotion. It's the emotion behind life. It's the emotion behind the gospel. […]
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