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The Unbreakable Boundaries Podcast#71: Announcing The Recovering Family and the 5 PrinciplesIn this podcast, Jen announces the rebranding of her podcast from Maneely Consulting to The Recovering Family, focusing on helping families with substance abuse issues. She outlines five principles for creating unbreakable boundaries: the Exchange Principle, emphasizing equal exchanges in financial, time, and energy; the Action Principle, stressing the importance of actions over words; the Present Principle, urging focus on the here and now; the Love Principle, advocating for loving communication; and the Joy Principle, highlighting the need for self-care and joy. She also promotes her nonprofit's donation-based services and encourages listeners to visit therecoveringfamily.org for more information.2025-07-2834 min
The Unbreakable Boundaries Podcast#70: Katie and Barb Kocher: The Importance of Grace and UnderstandingIn this episode of the podcast, host Jen Maneely welcomes Katie Kocher and her mother, Barb Kocher, to share their heartfelt journey through addiction and recovery. Katie opens up about her feelings of isolation and misunderstanding during her youth, despite excelling academically and athletically. Barb reflects on her unawareness of the signs of Katie's struggles and acknowledges the effects of their strict parenting approach. As Katie's addiction worsened, it led to serious consequences, including expulsion from sports teams and a car accident. After 15 tumultuous years, Katie found hope in rehab, discovering the healing power of art therapy. Now five...2024-10-221h 07
Divas That Care NetworkWhen Trust Is LostCome and listen while Host Kate Neligan share metaphysical wisdom in order to help listeners raise their spiritual consciousness. #divasthatcareJennifer has been in recovery for over 15 years. She started getting calls from parents desperate for her to help their loved ones. Having been in recovery for so long, she knew one thing to be true; there is nothing anyone can do or say to help them until they are ready to get help. PERIOD. That left the parents hopeless, frustrated, desperate, angry, and scared, so shecreated a way to give the families the help they needed based on her own...2023-05-0414 min
Creative Spirits Unleashed#42 The Elegant Pivot Series: Developing a Spirit of InquiryWe are finishing up a series that I've been doing with my coworker, colleague, and daughter, Jen Maneely with my book “The Elegant Pivot”. This is a book I wrote and published in 2001. We've been following the five main principles of the elegant pivot around how to assume positive intent. The fifth principle is to develop a spirit of inquiry. And if you haven’t read my book, or need a refresher on the five principles, they are:1: Discern Signal from Noise2: Focus on what You Want3: Take Nothing Personally4: Master Your S...2022-07-1456 min
Creative Spirits Unleashed#41 The Elegant Pivot Series: Master Your StoriesIn my latest podcast episode, I again welcome daughter and colleague Jen Maneely. We are continuing our series on The Elegant Pivot. In this episode, we talked about the Chapter titled Master Your Stories. We had SO many stories about making up stories. All too often, we think we know what the other person is thinking or why they said something. More often than not, we are missing the full picture. In fact, I would dare say we never have the full picture, because we can’t truly get inside someone else’s head. The proble...2022-06-151h 04
Creative Spirits UnleashedEp. #38: Take Nothing Personally: The Elegant Pivot SeriesIn my latest podcast episode, I again welcome daughter and colleague Jen Maneely. We are continuing our series on The Elegant Pivot, this time to dive into the practice of taking nothing personally. When a mother and daughter sit down to talk about taking nothing personally, anything can happen. If we had tried to have this conversation a few years ago, it would have been like navigating a minefield. We would have tried to avoid each other’s hot buttons and not hurt the other’s feelings. Not so in this podcast. Instead, this conversation is full of pr...2022-05-0556 min
Creative Spirits Unleashed#37: Jennifer Maneely: Focus on What You Want: The Elegant Pivot SeriesDon’t think about a big, purple elephant with white polka dots and a pink tail. How did you do? First you had to think about it to not think about it. That’s the point of the principle from chapter 9 in The Elegant Pivot: Focus on What You Want. This week, Jen Maneely joins me again to share our stories on our successes and failures in applying this principle in real life. We never know where one of these conversations is going to take us. We both had a number of insights as we worked through severa...2022-04-071h 09
Creative Spirits Unleashed# 35 Jennifer Maneely: Discern Signal from NoiseRemember those old radios, where you turned the dial, navigating through the noise of static? Up and down the spectrum, turn the dial a little this way and then a little that way, until finally, we find music or a person talking. That’s when you know you found the signal. Actually, new car radios also have noise and signal, but the new technology makes it easier to quickly find the channel. Recently, I had a lot of noise while purchasing a new car. Well, isn’t the process usually full of noise? But this time, it wasn’...2022-03-1053 min
Creative Spirits Unleashed#33 Your Brain on Jump ThinkingFor this episode, we are doing something completely different. I am starting a series on my book, “The Elegant Pivot” with the help of Jennifer Maneely. Jen is a thought leader in the addiction community and specializes in helping parents set boundaries with their adult children who are caught up in drugs and alcohol. Having been a student of her own mind and now a sponsor in the addition community for fifteen years, she has keen insights into how our minds work. That’s why I turn to her again and again to help me arrest my brain when it’s j...2022-02-1157 min
Jared Diehl The Louder Now PodcastLouder Now Episode #81: Special Guest Jennifer ManeelyEpisode #81. Jared was a guest on Jen's Unbreakable Boundaries Podcast back in February. We are like two best friends that haven't seen each other in 6 months. We hung out and talked for at least 15 minutes before recording. This was such a wonderful conversation. Jen's perspective on recovery and addiction and mental health will really help you. Jen's BIO: Jennifer Maneely is the founder of Maneely Consulting, Inc. a coaching firm with families who have loved ones in addiction or trauma related substance abuse. She works with the families to help them develop strategies and coach...2021-07-091h 08
Creative Spirits Unleashed#17 Jen Maneely: The Non-Drama of Getting Back On the HorseMy Daughter, Jen and I, have actually done several podcasts together over the years, talking about our story through addiction and our adventures working together as a mother daughter team. A little over a month ago, we did a podcast together about how her moment of vulnerability changed everything. We are back for a round two for a very important reason; we are answering the question: Did anything really change?If you have not listened to the first podcast, it is worth your time to go listen to Episode 16 – both to get context for this one might and also to...2020-12-0257 min
Creative Spirits Unleashed#16 Jen Maneely, How a Moment of Vulnerability Changed EverythingMoments of transformation are often also moments of vulnerability. In this episode, Jen Maneely, Author of Dear Parents, Strategies to Help Your Loved One Through Addiction describes a moment of transformation that almost didn’t happen. When facing fears, we often feel like we are going to die – even when the danger is not life and death. Jen describes how she dealt with one of those fears by asking the question “What’s my responsibility here?” With the right kind of support, she stayed with her fears and literally got back on the horse.2020-10-151h 21
Creative Spirits Unleashed#13 Jen Maneely The Lessons My Daughter's Addiction Taught MeNavigating addiction is never easy. In this mother-daughter conversation, we share some of our stories, dilemmas and uncertainties as Jen went through a series of life and death decisions on her road to recovery. Some of the most fun parts of this conversation happened when we learned some never-revealed things about what was going on behind the scenes for both of us. 2020-06-121h 07