94 - Self-Sabotage & Procrastination w/ Laura K. Connell
Adult Child
Andrea
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Today we are joined by trauma-informed Laura K. Connell to discuss self-sabotage, procrastination, reparenting, and her own journey to heal the wounds of her childhood.
Laura K. Connell is a trauma-informed author and coach who helps women uncover blind spots that hold them back. She blogs weekly about healing self-sabotage and dysfunctional family dynamics at her website laurakconnell.com. Her articles have reached millions at Life Hack, Pick the Brain, Dumb Little Man, Thought Catalog, Highly Sensitive Refuge, Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and more. She has hosted an online reparenting retreat with over 2,000 attendees and appeared on podcasts such as Date with Darkness and Savvy Broadcasting. Her first book, It’s Not Your Fault, will be published by HCI Books and distributed by Simon and Schuster in September 2023.
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| 0:00.0 | Never put off tomorrow what can be done the day after tomorrow just as well. My name is |
| 0:08.7 | Andrea and this is adult child. to let it all go. |
| 0:23.0 | It all go. |
| 0:24.0 | What's making you slow now? |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to adult child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up |
| 0:32.0 | in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:34.0 | Ahoi, shit shows. |
| 0:37.0 | Happy New Year, |
| 0:38.0 | 2023. |
| 0:41.0 | What the hell? Seriously, What the hell? What the hell, 2023? |
| 0:47.0 | I hope you guys had a wonderful New Year's. |
| 0:52.0 | Did you set a resolution? I did and I've already failed. I'll get |
| 0:57.4 | to that in a second. I just wanted to share I shared this in the Patreon group on Sunday and I think it's important to share here. |
| 1:05.6 | You know one thing that I really struggled with in the past was around Christmas and |
| 1:10.8 | around New Year's feeling so much shame and insecurity about being |
| 1:17.3 | single and especially like when you know the clock strikes 12 and just not having anyone to kiss and |
| 1:24.8 | always having this thought of like oh maybe next year or not even maybe next year |
| 1:31.4 | it was like oh next year there will be somebody and just |
| 1:35.5 | feeling like shit about myself because I didn't I wasn't in a relationship at |
| 1:40.2 | the holidays and boy what a relief it is to not feel that way anymore. I mean granted |
| 1:48.1 | it would be nice to have someone to kiss but it's not all-consuming. It doesn't send me into the shame spiral that it once was. |
| 1:57.8 | I just made out with Hawaiian rolls in spinach chip. |
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