Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery
Tired of feeling fragmented and overwhelmed? Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12-Step Recovery is your guide to creating a life of wholeness, authenticity, and healthy boundaries. Join Barb Nangle, a boundaries coach and speaker, as she shares raw and honest insights from her own journey and the principles of 12-step recovery. Discover how to set boundaries without guilt or shame, overcome people-pleasing tendencies, manage your emotions effectively, cultivate a stronger sense of self, and build healthier relationships. Barb's approach is raw, honest, and sometimes a little bit (okay, a lot) sweary.
Barb doesn't speak for or endorse any particular 12 step program of recovery. Though she's a huge fan of 12 step recovery, and a member of two 12 step fellowships, she cannot speak for them. If you're ready for real talk and practical tools for transformation, tune in! To learn more about Barb, go to https://higherpowercc.com/
Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery
Learn to Tolerate Ease: How Compassion Softened What Pressure Never Could | Episode 336
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In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a deeply personal realization about how long I treated myself like a project instead of a person, and how learning to tolerate ease required far more courage than pushing ever did.
This episode isn’t about productivity, optimization, or mindset. It’s about what happens when compassion reaches places that pressure never could, and how shame begins to release when the nervous system finally feels contextualized and safe.
Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:
- How treating yourself like a project quietly creates an internal atmosphere of evaluation and self-judgment
- The difference between using practices to support yourself versus using them to correct yourself
- Why avoidance and procrastination are often protection, not self-sabotage
- How fear is information, not prophecy, and why it doesn’t get to run your life
- What changes when something that lived wordlessly in the body is finally met with language, compassion, and boundaries
You’re not failing at ease. You’re learning to tolerate it.
And that learning isn’t about doing more or getting it right faster. It’s about creating enough internal safety to inhabit your own life without urgency, self-attack, or shame.
Be sure to tune in to all the episodes for reflections, recovery insights, and gentle reminders that real change happens through context, not force.
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