Curt and Katie interview Kasey Compton, LPCC, on her new book, In Search of You. We explore her journey of healing and what it was like to put that healing into a public space. We also talk about Kasey’s challenges with being bullied in her hometown due to the choices she has made (getting divorced and then choosing a same-sex relationship) and how her “hard head” has helped her to get through it all. She also shares some ideas for therapists in their own healing journeys.
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An Interview with Kasey Compton, LPCC
Kasey Compton is on a mission to help business owners find their entrepreneurial confidence. She went from bankrupt to Boss Babe when she took her first company from zero to three million in less than three years without ditching her life to do it. She owns three other businesses that have accumulated assets of over two million and are growing by the day.
Her superpowers include cutting through the clutter to identify a strategic starting point, increasing efficiency through systems, and tapping into a person’s highest potential. She helps others by designing maps for their entrepreneurial journeys, while she stands confidently as their guide.
In this podcast episode, we talk about how even successful therapists may need their own healing journey
Curt and Katie talk with Kasey Compton about her new book, In Search of You: When Doing More Isn’t Doing It Anymore.
What is “In Search of You” about?
Kasey wrote a book while going through therapy about her healing process
Looking at moving away from accomplishment and toward making meaning
Getting to a place of self-love
Using Kasey’s stories she wrote during therapy, in real time
How can a high achiever, people pleaser, or “seeker” move toward self-love?
Understanding the relationship between love and accomplishment (or lack of relationship between these two)
Understanding the difference between authenticity and vulnerability
Shifting one’s relationship with shame
What is it like to heal in public?
Coming to terms with vulnerability
For Kasey, her hometown is religiously conservative who were very judgmental about her stages of healing (including her divorce, a new relationship with a woman, and now writing this book)
Putting on emotional armor in unsafe places
Finding community support
Moving forward with boldness and self-acceptance
Detaching from outcomes
How do these lessons apply for therapists?
Taking a holistic, full person look at who you are professionally
Using a timeline to understand ourselves and how our lives have impacted us
Doing our own work with a therapist or through journaling and doing a timeline
Finding balance
Moving away from self-sacrifice as a mechanism toward accomplishment
Who we are:
Curt Widhalm, LMFT
www.curtwidhalm.com
Katie Vernoy, LMFT
www.katievernoy.com
A Quick Note:
Our opinions are our own. We are only speaking for ourselves - except when we speak for each other, or over each other. We’re working on it.
Our guests are also only speaking for themselves and have their own opinions. We aren’t trying to take their voice, and no one speaks for us either. Mostly because they don’t want to, but hey.