His & Her Life Hacks
Dawne and Larry were former high-achieving corporate executives both living outwardly successful lives. Internally, they were spiraling. Life circumstances had brought them to their knees. Rather than giving up, they leaned into their faith and did the hard work to make themselves whole again. Now thriving, they are on a mission to lead others to find their true purpose so they too can live a life of joy.
Creating this podcast is part of our mission.
We will be sharing life hacks from a His and Her perspective from our combined experiences that include: Raising 10 children, Overcoming significant loss to thrive again, Navigating 30-year careers in Corporate America, Falling in love, Building a relationship in our 50's, and much more!
We keep it real, offering inspiration and hope, and creating a community where you can sit back with your spouse, partner or best friend to listen, laugh or cry, and learn. Most of all, we want you to leave our podcast feeling uplifted and empowered to take action!
The His & Her Life Hacks Podcast is part of our company, Grit2Grace, designed to offer hope, inspiration, and real-world solutions to those in need. Through our experiences and transformative process, we teach you how faith, resilience and hard work can help you:
- Get unstuck and find your true purpose
- Overcome and heal through loss
- Remove limiting beliefs
- Navigate single parenting challenges across many different ages and circumstances
- Double down on your faith to find true joy.... and much more
His & Her Life Hacks
Episode 8 - Origin Story: When Your Childhood Wounds Follow You Into Adulthood
What is your origin story?
In this episode, Larry & Dawne discuss the fascinating topic of your origin story, the wounds that we experience typically during the formative years of our childhood and create a blueprint that unconsciously influence our behavior into adulthood. Everyone has something, whether occurring in a moment or over a period of time. Examples of this would be parental abuse, addiction within the family dynamic, a traumatic event that took place, or the loss of a close family member or friend.
They discuss their respective origin stories, and how they manifested themselves, from Larry always feeling unsettled and anxious - resulting in a feeling of unworthiness and always needing to prove himself, to Dawne feeling anxious, scared, alone to figure things out herself and always walking on eggshells as a people pleaser - which resulted in her not wanting to use her voice professionally or personally, having an extreme lack of confidence. These were all unconscious until triggered, then came to surface unknowingly and impacted their relationships and career.
They then discuss the events in their lives that led them to face directly into the pain that these wounds had caused in order to heal. A perspective of gratitude enabled them to accept and forgive the past, allowing them to operate as whole healthy person, and live in a spirit of joy.
We hope you enjoy this episode. It is really a thought provoking topic. Most importantly, it is never too late to dig in and do the hard work, to resolve any conflict caused by your origin story/childhood wounds, in order to live the life you deserve!