Embracing Negative Emotions with Allison Crow

Allison Crow is a life and self-leadership coach for authentic, ambitious women. She has been teaching and coaching since the mid-90s and started coaching full-time in 2007 with Keller Williams Realty, where she established and carried out mentorship and coaching programs for new and existing agents. Today, Allison helps her clients work with thoughts, emotions, and behaviors through her coaching business, Soul-Full Living. In addition to her work as a coach, Allison also hosts the podcast, The Better Life Better Work Show, where she facilitates conversations on authentic leadership, self-leadership, and developing better life and work habits.Allison joins me today to discuss the Internal Family Systems Model and how it can help people heal. She shares what she learned from Thich Nhat Hanh about transforming difficult emotions and how she uses the Internal Family Systems Model to take it further. She explains how the coaching world can sometimes be damaging and highlights the importance of softness and compassion in the industry. Allison also discusses why there is no such thing as a ‘negative’ emotion and underscores the role of trust in authenticity.“To be your true self, you have to trust yourself; to trust yourself, you have to meet parts of yourself that the world, media, and culture consider ‘negative’ emotions.” - Allison CrowThis week on the Trauma Hiders Club Podcast:The fear of letting go of our zone of excellenceWhat the Internal Family Systems Model is and how Richard Schwartz developed itWhat Allison learned from Thich Nhat Hanh about relating to angerHow an internal family system is different from a person’s family of originMaking a place for softness and compassion in the world of coachingWhat it means to be authenticThe role of trust in authenticityThe potential of the Internal Family Systems Model in unburdening and healingWhat the Internal Family Systems Model has done for Allison’s lifeWhy anger is not unholyWhy the coaching industry can sometimes be harmful and the reason being a “butt-kicking coach” steals autonomyWhy nothing is “pathologized” in IFSHow the soft, sweet parts of us can learn to stand upResources Mentioned:Book: Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions by Thich Nhat HanhStripping Down to Your Authentic Self | Allison Crow on Rich Litvin’s 4PCConnect with Allison Crow:Allison Crow WebsiteThe Better Life Better Work ShowAllison Crow on LinkedInAllison Crow on FacebookAllison Crow on InstagramAllison Crow on YouTubeWhere High Achievers Get Through Shit - TOGETHERThanks for tuning into this week’s episode of Trauma Hiders Club ‘The Podcast’ with Karen Goldfinger Baker. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review wherever you get your podcasts.Apple Podcasts | TuneIn | GooglePlay | Stitcher | Spotify | Amazon MusicBe sure to share your favorite episodes on social media to help me reach more high achievers, like you.Join me on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn and visit my website to discover the rules of Trauma Club and grab your free download: Discover 5 Ways Your Fuckery Is Getting In The Way of The Next Level of Your Success.