This is the place for all things recovery, healing, and relationships. We explore a variety of topics with people in recovery and the professionals who help them through personal stories. This podcast will give you a broad look at the aspects of recovery that make a difference.
Most of us are familiar with the concept of our inner child. In this episode, Jackie talks about the importance of developing a balance between our inner child and our inner adult in order to functi…
In this episode Jackie and Rachel continue talking about spiritual deconstruction and widen the discussion to include deconstruction around many messages we receive.
In this episode Jackie talks about traits and characteristics of healthy family systems.
In this episode, Jackie is joined by friend and colleague Rachel Allen to talk about the process of spiritual deconstruction. We are seeing higher numbers of clients bring their process of deconstru…
In this episode, Jackie talks about disengaged family systems. Disengaged family systems have a way of powerful shame around emotional needs our need for love and connection. This family system has…
In this episode, Jackie talks about enmeshed family systems. Jackie talks in more detail about what enmeshed families are, what they look like, and what they feel like. The short-term and long-term …
In this episode, Jackie talks about structural family therapy concepts and the types of families identified by Salvador Mnuchin: healthy/adaptive, disengaged, enmeshed. This episode is an overview …
In this podcast episode, Jackie talks about attachment styles, what they are, how they form and how they can impact us in our adult relationships. This episode is another lens to view ourselves and …
In this episode, Jackie talks about the often hidden and unknown condition of childhood emotional neglect. Our parents may understand the importance of providing for our physical needs as children, …
In this final episode in the series on developing a solid sense of self, Jackie talks about how we develop a solid sense of self. Jackie looks at what researchers in neuroscience are saying about ho…
In this episode Jackie talks about self-care and how to approach caring for the self in a way that supports building a "self" and reinforcing the value and worth of who we are. Self-care can be misu…
In this episode, Jackie continues talking about developing the self. The need to find the lapse in our story caused by adversity or trauma and finishing what is left unfinished in us. Jackie borrow…
In this episode, Jackie takes a lot of writings from Dr. Gabor Mate to help us understand ourselves from the perspectives we don't typically look at ourselves or our stories from.
In this episode Jackie continues her series on developing a solid sense of self. In this episode, Jackie explores some of the reasons we may not have developed a solid sense of self and how we can s…
This is episode 2 in a series on "self". In this episode, Jackie talks about what goes awry in developing a sense of self, what it can look like when we don't have a functional sense of self and why…
In this episode, Jackie kicks off a series on developing the self, barriers to developing a self, what self-care even means and how to recognize when our childhood trauma story surfaces in our adult …
In this episode, Jackie, circles back to episode 228 and talks about the courtship dimensions seven through twelve. These dimensions were identified by Dr. Patrick Carnes and are part of developing …
In this episode, Jackie talks about the vulnerable moments that we share. Where we show up for people, celebrate with people, grieve with people and let others know they are not alone.