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 4: Roll Call: What's really shaping our identity
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Who would you be without the roles you play?
In this episode, Jillian explores how roles shape our identity—from the family roles we develop in childhood to the responsibilities we take on as adults. She looks at how these roles influence choices and behaviors, and are woven into our sense of self, and often continue guiding us long after we've stopped noticing them.
Through personal stories, psychological insights, and practical reflection exercises, you'll be invited to consider the roles you've inherited, those you've chosen, and how greater awareness can help you navigate life's transitions.
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Recommended Resource: "The Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are" Dr. Kevin Leman
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