It’s time to be even more specific about tools to help our self when we are over-involved in someone else’s life and under-involved in our own. Nancy re-visits the 4 areas of work involved in Self Recovery: Illusions, Detaching, Boundaries, and Spirituality. As they talk, Nancy suggests that these 4 areas be considered in a circle creating a life buoy or road sign to guide. Kacey sees the circle as a bracelet of four stones serving as reminders. Then, in her beautifully spontaneous way, Kacey offers a story that illustrates these dynamics of self and other, and in response, Nancy offers one of her favorite tools: The Line Down the Page which is a Detaching Skill.

Coming Up: Tools, Tools, Tools to take you into Spring!

Recorded on Monday, February 8, 2021

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

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Nancy and Kacey continue their conversations about making changes by telling their own stories of change. Nothing teaches better than real life examples, and once again, Nancy and Kacey step forward ready and able to share their experiences to illustrate what they have been talking about since Show # 6. And they add a few more Ingredients for Change as they talk: Patience, Acceptance of mistakes which will occur along the way, Courage, Calmness, Kindness, and Flexibility.

Recorded on Monday, February 1, 2021

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

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Looking at the last 2 Ingredients for Change – Spirituality and Letting Go – Nancy and Kacey talk together about the various ways individuals may experience spirituality and highlight, through their own experiences, the relief, lightness, space, and openness that can come from letting go of old beliefs, habits, expectations, and any number of things not in our control.

Recorded on Monday, January 25, 2021

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

Find us on Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/2ImkALn
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While attempting to use new technology for their show today, Kacey and Nancy inadvertently fall into a meaningful discussion about patience – patience with others and especially with self as we navigate change. The show can hardly get on the rails or stay on the rails, but in their candid ways, Nancy and Kacey go with what is going on and still deliver a meaningful message on patience. You are welcome to laugh any time.

Recorded on Monday, January 18, 2021

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

Find us on Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/2ImkALn
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Nancy and Kacey return to conversations about Nancy’s 10 Ingredients for Change with a focus on being aware of our self in the moment and learning how to intervene on our own behalf so we don’t do our same old/same old. Learning to pay attention to our words, tones, and actions in the moments they are happening gives us the choice – in that moment – to act on the changes we want for our better self.

Recorded on Monday, January 18, 2021

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

Find us on Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/2ImkALn
Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pl0EJk
Find Nancy at: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
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In this their final 2020 show, Nancy and Kacey honor the New Year’s approach by returning to their discussions about what is needed to make real, meaningful changes for our self. With a brief review of the first 5 ingredients for change - Awareness, Willingness, Intentionality, Self-Education, and Skill-Building – Nancy and Kacey talk about the fundamental importance of the 6th ingredient: Self-Regard – a core caring about self. Kacey offers a way we can each gauge how we express love for our self and invites Nancy to apply these questions to her self as they converse. Nancy and Kacey’s candidness and honesty invite the listener to see safe and hopeful paths to newness.

Recorded on Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

Find us on Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/2ImkALn
Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pl0EJk
Find Nancy at: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
Find Kacey at: https://kacey.co/

The holidays are bright, festive, and can be stressful. We don’t want to be so busy and frazzled that we miss the beauty and wonder of what is around us. And in these pandemic times, we may also be feeling disappointed and/or frustrated that our traditions cannot be as usual. Kacey and Nancy discuss these feelings and holiday dynamics through their own stories and offer 3 ideas to help you: (1) Check-in with your Self first, (2) Let things unfold as they will or won’t, and (3) Be present and grateful for what is.

Recorded on Monday, December 14, 2020

With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next? Let us know at [email protected] 

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At various points in our lives, most of us want to make some change in our Self: lose weight, exercise more, be more organized, be on time. These are great goals, but too often they slip away from us, and we are back in our usual grooves. With plenty of personal examples, Nancy and Kacey chat about the importance of Awareness, Willingness, Intentionality, Self-Education, and Skill-Building to be successful in making the changes we desire for our Self.

Recorded on Monday, December 7, 2020

Nancy & Kacey: Shining Light on You & Your Relationships: With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next ? 

Find us on Apple podcasts: https://apple.co/2ImkALn
Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3pl0EJk
Find Nancy at: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
Find Kacey at: https://kacey.co/

In this episode, Nancy and Kacey open the door to ideas for Self Recovery.  Full of their own interpersonal examples, Nancy and Kacey introduce 4 areas of work that can help: Facing Illusions, Detaching, Setting Healthy Boundaries, and Developing Spirituality. Think of these four areas not as a list to check off but as arranged in a circle, like a life buoy, with Self in the center surrounded by these 4 areas of work available at all times to foster Self Recovery.

Recorded on Monday, November 30, 2020

With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next? Let us know at [email protected] 

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Nancy and Kacey bring their humor and ability to tell stories on themselves to illustrate more about why we can get entangled. With lots of conversational time and tales spent on our sometimes illusive issues with control, Nancy and Kacey offer a loving understanding of the ways and reasons we eclipse our self in our relationships and start to shed light on this path of Self Recovery they will explore in the shows to follow.

Recorded November 16, 2020

With knowledge and humor, personal stories and clinical information, Nancy and Kacey discuss topics such as how we can unknowingly lose our self in our relationships, what causes us to care more about pleasing others or caregiving others more than self, and what we can do to find and keep a balance in attending to self and others. Their entertaining conversations invite you to be right there with them and feel informed and hopeful about you and your relationships.

What topics should we cover next? Let us know at [email protected] 

Find Nancy at: https://www.nancyljohnston.com/
Find Kacey at: https://kacey.co/