Ep 143 Is your Extreme Independence a Trauma Response?

PodcastSpirituality
Written By Jen Mons

In this episode, Jen invites you to join her in a conversation around independence. She deep dives into how you have shown up into extreme independence in your life and if this is related to a trauma response.

Key Notes:

  • The different reasons why we become extremely independent

  • How extreme independence is a result of a need for safety and to feel valued

  • How extreme independence doesn’t invite vulnerability

  • How did you become extremely independent?

Show Notes:

(00:50) What this week’s episode is about

(03:17) How most of our behaviors that we embody through our life are the result or our childhood experiences

(06:37) How one of the most common threads that Jen noticed is a need for safety

(09:07) How extreme independence often comes from a need of safety and a lack of trust

(11:38) Where has seeking for approval externally gotten you?

(12:20) How your extreme independence is your survival strategy

(15:15) How extreme independence can be a result of lack of trust

(17:47) Jen invites you to journal about extreme independence if it resonates about you

Quotes:

(09:00) It can look very different on the outside than how we experience it in the inside

(10:20) We choose to align our actions with our values, not our wounds, not our needs, but our values.

(10:33) Live your life by who you’re becoming, not who you’ve been

(16:24) The attachment that we had being extremely independent has hurt us in some ways

(17:23) Have the gratitude for the courage and the strength that you have to be independent

Links Mentioned:

13 Moons of Devotion: https://www.jenmons.com/13moons-of-devotion

Resources:

Website: https://www.jenmons.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenMonsCoaching 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jen.mons/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXFG_uyCRg9nxM43jS9mvUg 

Prosperity: https://www.jenmons.com/prosperity 

PODCAST DISCLAIMER:

This podcast is to educate, inside, and inform the listeners of various pathways to wholistic well being.  This information is not to replace the advise of your physician, specialist, medical doctor, therapist, nutritionist or dietician. Please refer to full Medical Disclaimer Here.

Jen Mons

Jen is a speaker, author, mentor, and international retreat facilitator for purpose driven female leaders, coaches, and entrepreneurs ready to build a business they love around a life they love and create a robust income that provides more joy, time, and financial freedom through transformational retreat offerings. She guides women from hustling to alignment, overwhelm to overflowing, and doubt to clarity and confidence in their business and personal life by activating their gifts, upgrading their wealth blueprint, and sharing her wisdom on the art of feminine leadership through the prosperous retreat blueprint and somatic retreat facilitation certification. Jen is a former high achieving graduate from USMMA, corporate engineer turned holistic health, life and embodiment coach, meditation, yoga, breath work teacher, and energy healer to redesign her clients energetic imprint from subconscious blocks to embody their soul wisdom and upgrade their wealth blueprint through prosperity consciousness. Her clients see results like sold out retreats, optimal wellbeing, increased financial freedom, healthy relationships, and energy management to create more peace, freedom, joy and connection in their lives. She has been on the leading edge of the coaching industry since 2009 and facilitated workshops and retreats locally and internationally since 2014. Jen is host of The Body & Soul Wisdom Podcast, creator of The Feminine Leadership Method ™, Embodied Feminine CEO, 5 Element Wellth, Prosperity, Soul Wisdom Imprinting, and Embodied Feminine Retreats.

https://www.jenmons.com
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