Patterns & Practice: Tools to Shape How we Live and Love
Patterns & Practice is a podcast dedicated to sharing real life practices to help you reshape patterns for living and loving — turning these into habits that support real, sustainable change.
Hosted by Jillian Eichel-Dobray, a licensed therapist and credentialed professional life and relationship coach with 25 years of experience working with people individually, as couples, and on transformational retreats and workshops.
This show explores the emotional and relational patterns that influence our lives. Each episode slows things down to look beneath what’s happening on the surface, offering insight, practical frameworks, and grounded ways to think about - and meet - life differently.
Every episode closes with a simple practice you can bring into your week, because change doesn’t happen through awareness alone — it happens through what we practice in real life.
Patterns & Practice: Tools to Shape How we Live and Love
Episode 3: Success: Are We There Yet?
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What if success isn’t a fixed destination, but something that evolves as we do?
In this episode, Jillian invites listeners to consider what drives our ideas about success. Whether you’re building a career, questioning old goals, starting over, striving toward something meaningful, or realizing the life you imagined no longer fully fits — this conversation offers a deeper look at the “success scripts” we inherit and internalize.
Drawing from her own life, psychology, and years of coaching and counseling work, Jillian reflects on ambition, striving, and the tension between external achievement and internal alignment.
As promised, each bite-sized episode ends with a few simple practices [16:26] for you to take into your life - so you might want to grab a pen before listening.
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Resource: Choosing your Values: https://www.jillianeichel.com/values
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