About this episode

Arlina Allen discusses long-term sobriety and recovery patterns with guest Katie Hingle.

Hi friend, welcome to the podcast, my name is Arlina, I've been sober for 32 years, and it's my life's mission to carry a message of hope for recovery. Here's a question we all need to consider, No matter where you are in your recovery journey: What if the survival skills that you develop in childhood - the performing, the achieving, and the self-abandonment for the sake of appeasing others- are the exact habits quietly keeping you feeling stuck in adulthood? This actually happens to everybody in one form or another, and we're going to talk about how to break some of those patterns. Today I sit down with Katie Hingle, founder and CEO of Lavish, and a woman in long term recovery to talk about how she is working through her own survival patterns. I've known Katie for decades, and always admired her, not just because she's so accomplished as an executive at Adobe, and now the CEO at her own company, but because she is a woman of faith, service and integrity. Katie is one of those shining examples of someone who has done real work - not just recovery from alcohol, but the untreated perfectionism, people-pleasing, and codependence underneath it. But before we jump in, I just want to…

People in this episode

Host: Arlina Allen

Guest: Katie Hingle

Topics covered

• long-term sobriety
• relapse
• recovery patterns
• personal growth
• survival skills

Keywords

• sobriety
• recovery
• perfectionism
• people-pleasing
• codependence
• mental health
• self-improvement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Adobe, Lavish

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