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Ep. 199 - Angela Scanlon on Embracing the Messiness of Life

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Are you numbing your hard emotions, and then losing the ability to feel the good ones too? We’re so grateful to have TV & Radio Presenter, author, podcast host and owner of the jewelry line FRKL, Angela Scanlon on The Expanded Podcast today! Her and Lacy...

Highlights

Angela Scanlon joins Lacy Phillips to explore motherhood, vulnerability, gratitude, emotional honesty, creative ambition, and the freedom found in embracing life’s messiness.
04:03
You are not alone in hard times
19:08
Zero to one felt like trauma
22:33
Dependency can be proof of trust and love
30:20
Rewriting the story of birth
38:41
Irish people carry deep sensitivity beneath their warmth and lightness
49:31
Gratitude became an anchor
58:27
Numbing pain can numb joy too
1:05:15
You don’t need to pigeonhole yourself
1:14:11
Support can turn an idea into momentum

Chapters

Motherhood, vulnerability, and the need for support
00:00
From self-sufficiency to empowered dependence
19:47
Irish sensitivity, mysticism, and belonging
37:37
Gratitude without emotional bypassing
47:40
Creative expansion through presence and partnership
1:04:48

Transcript

Angela Scanlon: you're allowed to do whatever it is that lights you up, and some of it might work, and some of it might not. But the worst place to be is sitting there, looking around at all of the things that you thought you could have done that you never...