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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