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
The Hidden Rules You Learned Growing Up and How to Rewrite Them | Episode 330
In this week's episode 331 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m talking about the invisible, unspoken rules you absorbed growing up — the ones you never agreed to, yet have been shaping your entire emotional life. I break down how these hidden rules get installed in childhood, how they operate in adulthood, and how recovery gives you the clarity and safety to finally rewrite them.
Some of the talking points I go over in this episode include:
- The unspoken “family rules” you learned through tone, punishment, silence, chaos, and inconsistency
- How perfectionism, control, all-or-nothing thinking, and the inner critic develop in dysfunctional homes
- The ways these old rules still dictate your choices, boundaries, and emotional reactions
- What happens when you finally recognize that these rules were never yours to begin with
- How recovery helps you create new internal rules rooted in truth, safety, and self-compassion
You don’t have to keep living by rules that were created in a dysfunctional system.
You get to unlearn perfectionism, control, fear, and judgment.
And you get to replace them with patterns that support freedom, safety, and emotional wholeness.
You don’t have to stay stuck in the old survival strategies. The moment you start seeing the rules clearly, you can choose new ones — rooted in truth, boundaries, and compassion for yourself. Are you ready to rewrite the rules you grew up with?
Be sure to tune in to all the episodes to receive tons of practical tips on living a more whole life and to hear even more about the points outlined above.
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