#103: Lead Your Recovery with Carol

The Commons with Karla

How do we learn to connect emotionally with people when that hasn't been modeled for us?
In today’s episode, I am speaking with my friend Carol. By day Carol is a Director for a global organization, working on process improvement and integration projects. By night, Carol is a wife, mom, and friend, connecting with her people and enjoying life. In this episode, Carol talks with us about how growing up she dreamed of having a large, close knit family. However, her reality looked different. She often played peace maker in her family, and those early experiences have played a role in how she handles relationships and connections today. We talk about the desire to rewire habits that have been ingrained into us. Carol’s focus word for the year is: Lead. She is on a journey of leading her recovery from past hurts so she can engage more emotionally with her family today. I hope this episode encourages you to give yourself grace and empathy as you lead your own recovery.

Episode Highlights:

● Carol’s background story

● A day in the life of Carol

● Always being the peacemaker

● Emotional tone of our childhood home

● Asking good questions about needs and desires

● Task oriented work

● Falling back into old habits

● Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

● EMDRIA.org

● Naming, then healing within community

● Kindness and curiosity

● Carol’s community

● Switching hats between tasks and emotions

● What Carol is reading

● What Carol is looking forward to

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● Carol on Facebook

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