The Opportunity for the Next 90 Days
Practical Areas of Focus
Throughout the 90 days, our work will consistently return to six pillars:
1. Self-Trust
Building the ability to trust your own decisions, instincts, preparation, and capacity to handle whatever happens.
2. Emotional Independence
Reducing the emotional power of other people's opinions, progress, success, and reactions.
3. Outcome Detachment
Learning to want outcomes without requiring them for emotional safety or self-worth.
4. Post-Competition Resilience
Creating a new response to disappointment, mistakes, losses, and unmet goals — particularly in the hours and days after competition.
5. Uncertainty
Continuing to practice being genuinely okay without knowing what happens next.
6. Climbing Identity
Discovering how ambition, competition, performance, and achievement fit into the new you without allowing them to define you.
Success Measures
Success over these 90 days will not be measured primarily through goal-based results. Instead, we will look for evidence that you are becoming increasingly difficult to emotionally knock off course.
By the end of the 90 days, we want to see:
Increased self-trust
Less comparison
Less emotional investment in other people's opinions
Faster recovery after disappointing performances
Less post-competition spiraling
Greater trust in your training
Greater comfort with uncertainty
Less need to know what happens next
Ability to experience failure without making it personal
Ability to experience success without needing it for validation
Greater clarity around what you genuinely want (This one really excites me!)
Continued access to your free/light/present performance state
Ability to pursue goals without becoming controlled by them
No longer need life to go a certain way in order to feel okay about yourself
The 90-Day Commitment
For the next 90 days, your commitment is not to become more disciplined, work harder, or force yourself to believe in yourself. It is to practice trusting yourself. To trust yourself when you are uncertain, when someone else is ahead, when someone doesn't approve, after a bad competition, when you don't know what your next goal is, when the future looks completely different than expected.
The Ultimate 90-Day Goal
Building and becoming the Kaitlyn who knows exactly what she wants when she’s completely free to choose.
1. Deepening self-trust
You've already begun trusting yourself in ways that the Kaitlyn from Day 1 couldn't. Now we would work on making that trust more stable, particularly when you're uncertain, disappointed, afraid or being challenged.
We would explore:
Trusting your decisions without needing external validation
Trusting yourself when you don't know what happens next
Trusting yourself to handle outcomes you don't want
Distinguishing fear from genuine intuition
Building confidence that doesn't depend on achievement
Learning to return to yourself when doubt appears
2. Freedom from other people's opinions
You identified this as one of the biggest remaining areas of growth. The goal isn't to force yourself to stop caring what anyone thinks. Instead, we'll work toward something more sustainable.
We'll explore:
Fear of judgment
Comparison
The need for approval
Feeling behind
Other people outperforming you
The urge to prove yourself
Anger and resentment
Allowing people to misunderstand you
Staying secure in your own decisions
3. Redefining your relationship with climbing
One of the most unexpected discoveries of these 90 days was that you can have no climbing goals and still feel okay. That is incredibly valuable information. The next phase would not be about forcing yourself to choose a goal.
Instead, we'd explore:
What does climbing mean to you now?
What do you actually want from it?
What does ambition look like without pressure?
Can you want something deeply without needing it?
Can you pursue World Cups without World Cups determining your worth?
Can you compete because you love competing rather than because you need to prove something?
What does healthy ambition look like for the new Kaitlyn?
You don't have to decide the future of your climbing immediately. The goal is to create enough freedom that whatever you choose is genuinely your choice.
4. Learning to handle disappointment
You've already shown that you can stay much more present during competition. The next layer is what happens after the competition. You've described the old version of you returning after difficult performances and pulling you underwater. Together, we'd work on changing the meaning you attach to those moments.
We'll work on:
Post-competition emotional regulation
Separating performance from identity
Processing disappointment without self-punishment
Learning from mistakes without turning them into self-judgment
Preventing one performance from becoming a prediction about your future
Developing a repeatable post-competition process
5. Becoming comfortable with uncertainty
You've already transformed your relationship with uncertainty. The next level is learning to remain there.
You don't always need to know:
What's going to happen
Whether you'll succeed
Whether you'll improve
Whether you'll make the right decision
What other people will think
Where your climbing is going
What your future looks like
The work becomes: “I don't know yet and I'm okay.”, because certainty doesn't have to be what makes you feel safe anymore. Self-trust can.
6. Embodying the free athlete
Your original ideal performance state was free, light, thoughtless and present. You've already experienced this state. Now the focus would be making it increasingly accessible when conditions aren't perfect.
We'll identify and strengthen what helps you access it:
Sleep
Supportive people
Positive environments
Music
Exercise
Flow
Presence
Letting go of expectations
And we'll develop strategies for returning to yourself when you're pulled away by:
Fatigue
Brain fog
Negativity
Anger
Resentment
Comparison
Fear
Pressure
The goal isn't to be perfectly regulated all the time. It's to know how to come back to yourself.
7. Integrating the new Kaitlyn
We will discover who you are when you don’t need to prove anything. Not just as an athlete. As a person. The goal isn't to create another version of yourself that you have to become. It's to become increasingly comfortable being the person you've already discovered.
We'll continue exploring:
Who you are without achievement
What you value
What freedom means to you
What success means now
What ambition means now
What “enough” means
What you want simply because it brings you joy
What kind of life you actually want to create
Proposed Start Date
You decide when you are ready to continue. Ideally, we don’t want to lose too much momentum, that’s why I came up with an Option 2.
Investment
OPTION 1:
$10,500 or 3 monthly payments of $3,500 (We would keep your current rate)
The investment includes:
Monthly RTT sessions and integration support
Weekly performance coaching
Text support M-F
OPTION 2:
$5,250 or 3 monthly payments of $1,750
The investment includes:
Monthly RTT sessions and integration support
Monthly performance coaching session
Text support M-F