The Importance of Empathy for Yourself [309]

Flying Free

Natalie Hoffman

Emotional, Narcissism, Christianity, Abuse, Religion & Spirituality, Spiritual, Christian, Self-improvement, Education, Divorce, Marriage

5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Today I visit with Diana Swillinger, a life coach and fellow advocate for personal growth and healing. Together, we explore the profound role of empathy—not just for others but for yourself—in overcoming life’s challenges and moving forward.

Key Topics Covered:

The role of empathy in healing
Personal responsibility vs. victim-blaming
The difference between needing validation and needing empowerment
The importance of challenging our deeply rooted beliefs
A powerful tool for growth
Building a life aligned with the heart of God

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Love Diana? Listen to Episode 256 of the Flying Free Podcast to get more of her!
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Follow Diana’s podcast, The Renew Your Mind Podcast. Some of her best episodes include “Staying Out of Family Drama,” “Have To Vs. Choose To,” “When People Are Wrong About You,” “When People Are Right About You,” and “Accepting What Is.”
Follow Diana on Facebook and Instagram.
Are you wondering what is happening inside your own painful and confusing marriage? I wrote a book just for you called Is It Me? Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage: A Christian Woman’s Guide to Hidden Emotional and Spiritual Abuse.
My book, All the Scary Little Gods, is a spiritual memoir about healing from religious trauma and toxic programming.
Flying Free is our online community educating and supporting Christian women in emotionally abusive marriages. Whether you want to stay in your marriage or leave, we want to equip you through this program.
Flying Higher is my live mentorship program for any Christian woman interested in 10Xing their self-development progress.

Diana Swillinger is a life and business coach, host of The Renew Your Mind Podcast, and founder of the Renew Your Mind Institute Coach Training. After decades of trying please God, be a good person and do the right thing, she ended up exhausted and discouraged. Desperate for a solution, Diana went back to school, joined personal development programs, and more, then took what she learned and created mind renewal tools that let her love life in every situation no matter what comes her way. Over the past 5 year she has empowered thousands of women with those same tools to heal themselves, get back to who God created them to be, and build a life they love.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Natalie Hoffman of Flying FreeNow.com, and you're listening to the Flying Free
0:10.0	Podcast, a support resource for women of faith looking for hope and healing from hidden
0:16.4	emotional and spiritual abuse.
0:26.6	Welcome to episode 309 of the Flying Free Podcast.
0:34.5	Today I have my friend Diana Swillinger and she is the host of, oh my word.
0:38.9	So I'm coming off of another podcast where I was being interviewed by someone else and my brain is completely fried. What is it? The Renew Your Mind podcast.
0:44.3	The Renew Your Mind podcast. Okay. Normally I would be prepared. But this is going to, this is
0:49.5	kind of a serendipitous episode. Let's just put that out there right now. Diana and I are Marco Poloing back and
0:57.4	forth. And we were talking about the topic that we're going to talk about today, which is about
1:02.2	empathy and coaching. And we were like, let's do a podcast episode about this subject. And so when can
1:10.3	you meet? Yeah, let's do it. I think it was two days ago.
1:12.9	Let's do it on Thursday. And so here we are, but we're both very busy. We're both coming off of
1:18.7	other appointments and other things. But we just inserted this little hour into our time. And we're
1:25.0	just going to have, this is not scripted. It's just off the cuff
1:28.9	riffing about the topic of empathy. And yeah. So first of all, welcome, Diana. Thank you. It's
1:38.7	fun to be back. I think it's been almost probably right about a year. A year ago, I did an episode
1:43.1	with you about, yeah, January
1:45.4	2024 about how to, I don't remember what it was called, but it was how to grow while you stay
1:52.8	in an emotionally abusive marriage. So yeah, my mom just listened to that a few weeks ago and she was
1:58.8	like, wow, that was so good. But here we are a year later.
2:01.7	I'm excited to be back.
2:03.2	And so we didn't research it.
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