The Book Leads - Episode 69: & The Gift 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eger

In this episode, Corinne, shares both insights from Dr. Eger's book and how those insights have benefitted her in her own life -- one of traumatic experience, forgiveness, and growth.

Having experienced that journey herself, she brings her energy for life and wisdom through experience and learning to her coaching clients and retreat guests to help them heal from their own adversity.

Like Dr. Eger conveyed to her patients and implored in her book, Corinne also wants those she's helping to recognize the light that exists beyond hopelessness.

We all need to heal in some way, shape, or form. It may not be apparent, obvious, and evident on the surface, so it may take some reflection to explore and understand the deep-rooted reasons why we feel -- or react to the world -- in a certain way.

The takeaway from this conversation that resonates with me most is that of intentional evolution through victimhood -- and the ability and need to get beyond that vulnerable state. Don't get us wrong. As we state in the episode, it's important we feel those sensations.

So, after we have fully experienced and felt what that source of pain has left behind, we must do the work to step beyond it and build from that remaining rubble and ash.

CONVERSATION HIGHLIGHTS

Healing is body-based. It has to be.
Victimhood is a mental prison.
Dr. Dan Siegel's Hand odel of the Brain
No one at the end of their life has the regret that they laughed or loved too much.
What the acronym R.A.I.N. stands for when it comes to self-compassion.

MENTIONED OR APPLICABLE BOOKS

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
The Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World by Desmond Tutu
The Happiness Advantage: How a Positive Brain Fuels Success in Work and Life by Shawn Achor
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl

The MAIN QUESTION underlying my conversation with Corinne is, When you feel like a victim and you feel hopeless, what do (can) you see BEYOND those sensations?

ABOUT CORINNE

Corinne is a transformation expert serving women who experience challenging transitions – divorce, career change, empty nest, family estrangement, addiction and loss of a loved one. Through her uplifting energy, soothing demeanor, and extensive training in a mosaic of modalities – Internal Family Systems, Respectful Confrontation and Compassion-based therapies – Corinne guides women on a path of joy, connection and love, overcoming the pain of invisible loss. Because Corinne has experienced firsthand invisible loss and the power of healing in community, she leads intimate, small group retreat experiences in beautiful places all over the world as a foundation in creating the Healing the Heart Sisterhood. These intentional communities are comprised of women who are willing to do the deep soul work of Healing the Heart with vulnerability, compassion, and love. In addition to her coaching and retreats, Corinne has launched a weekly Mindfulness Class called Wisdom Wednesdays: Cultivating Calm for the Hurried Human, and that class began on September 20th.

I was introduced to Corinne by Erin Harrigan, who I had as a guest in Episode 55 of the series in which we covered her book, Pursuing Success God’s Way: A Practical Guide to Hustle With Heart.

LEARN MORE ABOUT CORINNE

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corinne-coppola/
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Website: www.corinnecoppola.com

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