Why Healing Yourself Is the Most Generous Thing You Can Do: a conversation with Karen Green

Send us Fan MailWhat if the most generous thing you could do for every relationship in your life is to come back to yourself first? This week I'm joined by Karen Green, therapist, professor, and creator of Conscious Care Cards, for a deeply honest conversation about attachment wounds, nervous system regulation, and why healing yourself changes everything around you.Karen has spent her career working with families, and what she keeps finding is the same truth at the centre of it all;  that the quality of your inner world determines the quality of every relationship you have. And that it is never too late to do that work.In this episode, we talk about:Why attachment trauma is not a private family issue but a public health issue and why it starts with youThe fractures we carry from childhood and how they quietly shape every relationship we step into as adultsWhy one attuned, present relationship can rewire everything — and why it is never too late to experience thatThe neurobiology of "we": how a regulated nervous system is the foundation of every authentic connectionMoving from sympathetic chaos to parasympathetic presence and why connection simply cannot happen in survival modeReparenting yourself: meeting your own unmet needs so you can stop running on emptyWhy your triggers are not problems to fix but invitations to finally tend to the part of you that was never heldThe research-backed truth that one person, even for 45 minutes, can change the trajectory of a lifeKaren's work is a quiet reminder that showing up whole for the people you love begins with showing up whole for yourself and that the path back is simpler than you think.Karen A. Green, MSW, LSSW, is a tenured professor and Director of the Mental Health, Social Service & Addiction Counseling program at Mt. Hood Community College. With over 16 years of experience as a K–6 school social worker, she has worked alongside children, parents, teachers, and administrators navigating anxiety, trauma, and behavioral challenges.For more information visit her website www.consciouscarecards.comHer Instagram or her Youtube Christina Fletcher is a Spiritual Alignment coach, energy worker, author, speaker and host of the podcast Showing Up Whole.She specialises in practical spirituality and integrating inner work with outer living, so you can get self development off of the hobby shelf and integrated as a powerful fuel to your life. Through mindset, spiritual connection, intuitive guidance, manifestation, and mindfulness techniques Christina helps her clients overcome overwhelm and shame to find a place of flow, ease, and deep heart-centered connection.Christina has been a spiritual alignment coach, healer and spiritually aware parent coach for 11 years and trained in Therapeutic Touch 12 years ago.  She is also a meditation teacher and speaker. For more information please visit her website www.spirituallyawareliving.com Want to uncover where you need the most energy alignment? Take her new Energy Alignment Quiz to identify which of your energetic worlds (mind, body, heart or spirit) needs aligning the most! Or Follow her on her social media accounts:FacebookInstagramorLinkedin...