087 | Writing Your Way Home with Allison Crow
Allison Crow M.Ed. is an author and the founder of Soul-Full Living, a coaching practice that helps clients work through thoughts, emotions, and behaviors using an approach based on Internal Family Systems. In addition to her work as a coach, Allison is the creator and host of the podcast, the Better Life Better Work Show, where she facilitates conversations on authentic leadership and developing better life and work habits. She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin and received her Internal Family Systems skills training from the IFS Institute. Her book, Unarmored: Finding Home in the Wild Edges of Being Human, is scheduled for release in December 2022.
Allison joins me today to discuss her book and her relationship with writing. She describes her childhood, the environment she grew up in, and her ADHD diagnosis at 50. She explains why a life built on dopamine hits is unsustainable and elaborates on how building slow, boring habits improved her life. She also highlights how being self-centered is one of the most loving things you can do for others and underscores how writing helps us remember who we are.
“Writing helps me remember who I am. We live in a world of forgetting, and writing helps me remember—it takes my inside out instead of putting something from the outside in.”
- Allison Crow
This week on the Trauma Hiders Club Podcast:
● The first books in Allison’s life that stuck with her
● Allison’s relationship with writing
● How the way Allison dresses reflects the environment she grew up in
● How Allison paints with words in Unarmored and why it isn’t for everyone
● Writing as a nurturing practice and how Allison discovered the power of words
● How writing helps us remember who we are
● Growing up in a volatile environment of love and verbal violence
● How writing can help sort through the chaos of life
● A reading from Allison’s Unarmored
● Why building a life and career on dopamine hits is unsustainable
● Doing low, slow, and boring work and the power of habits
● Creating a loving, compassionate culture of sacred willingness and intentional doing
● Pound, beat, stomp, slap, and shake and the wisdom of fire ants
● Why being self-centered is leadership
● Coming home to myself
Resources Mentioned:
● Book: The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life by Thomas Moore
● Book: The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurty
● Book: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
● Book: Succulent Wild Woman (25th Anniversary Edition): Dancing with Your Wonder-full Self by SARK
● Book: Becoming by Michelle Obama
● Book: Only 10s 2.0: Confront Your To-Do List and Transform Your Life by Mark Silverman
Related Content:
● Embracing Negative Emotions with Allison Crow
Connect with Allison Crow:
● The Better Life Better Work Show
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