Fragmented to Whole:
Life Lessons from 12 Step Recovery Podcast
Tired of feeling fragmented and overwhelmed? Fragmented to Whole: Life Lessons from 12-Step Recovery is your guide to creating a life of wholeness, authenticity, and healthy boundaries. Join Barb Nangle, a boundaries coach and speaker, as she shares raw and honest insights from her own journey and the principles of 12-step recovery. Discover how to set boundaries without guilt or shame, overcome people-pleasing tendencies, manage your emotions effectively, cultivate a stronger sense of self, and build healthier relationships. Barb's approach is raw, honest, and sometimes a little bit (okay, a lot) sweary.
Barb doesn't speak for or endorse any particular 12 step program of recovery. Though she's a huge fan of 12 step recovery, and a member of two 12 step fellowships, she cannot speak for them. If you're ready for real talk and practical tools for transformation, tune in!
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Ep. 348: How to Stop Tolerating What Drains You and Reclaim Your Time and Energy
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 347 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a very real and practical look at time boundaries, what they actually look like in daily life, and how they changed everything for me. Before recovery, I thought my issue was time management. But the truth was much…
Ep. 347: How I Stopped Giving My Time Away and Took My Life Back
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 347 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a very real and practical look at time boundaries, what they actually look like in daily life, and how they changed everything for me. Before recovery, I thought my issue was time management. But the truth was much…
Ep. 346: How Time and Energy Boundaries Help You Start Where You Actually Are
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 346 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a deeply personal experience that reshaped how I think about time and energy boundaries. After a period of illness, I noticed something unexpected: my capacity had changed, but my expectations hadn’t. In this episode, I explore how misaligned…
Ep. 345: How to Build Internal Boundaries So You Stop Fixing Everyone
Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode 345 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m bringing together the core ideas we’ve been exploring in this recent series on internal boundaries and explaining how they actually get built in real life. Many people think boundaries are about what you say to other people. But internal…
Ep. 344: How to Stop Your Inner Torment and the Urge to Fix Everyone
Send us a text In this week’s episode 344 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing how internal boundaries help you stop the exhausting cycle of emotional over-responsibility and the urge to fix everyone around you. This episode was inspired by powerful feedback from a listener and a member of my coaching community. Both…
Ep. 343: Other People’s Chaos Is Not Danger: How to Build Internal Boundaries
Send us a text In this week’s episode 343 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing a powerful shift that changes the way we relate to other people’s crises. When you grow up feeling responsible for everyone else’s emotions, someone else’s chaos doesn’t feel like inconvenience. It feels like danger. In this episode, I…
Ep. 342: Why Adult Friendships Can Feel Like Middle School and What to Do About It
Send us a text In this week’s episode 342 of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m exploring why adult friendships can sometimes feel surprisingly similar to middle school dynamics. Many people stay in friendships where they feel like they have to stay quiet, avoid conflict, or shrink themselves just to remain included. In this episode,…
Ep. 341: The Inner Safety Skill Building Method: How to Build Boundaries That Actually Hold
Send us a text In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m sharing the origin story of my Inner Safety Skill Building Method and why most boundary work fails without internal containment. I didn’t learn boundaries from books. I learned them as a byproduct of recovery. And what I eventually discovered is…
Ep. 340: When Life Gets Lifey with Guest Spencer T
Send us a text IIn this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m joined by guest Spencer T, Al-Anon member and host of The Recovery Show, for a deeply grounding conversation about what it looks like to practice recovery when life gets hard. We talk about loving detachment, acceptance, grief, and how the principles…
Ep. 339: How to Build Emotional Boundaries That Keep You Whole
Send us a text In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m exploring what it really means to be whole and how emotional boundaries are what make that wholeness possible. Inspired by the image of a plant that is always changing yet never fragmented, we look at the difference between being unfinished…
Ep. 338: Why Avoiding Discomfort Keeps You Stuck and How to Get Unstuck
Send us a text In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m exploring what actually shifts when emotional safety stops cIn this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m unpacking a topic that sits at the core of emotional healing and change: discomfort. Not all discomfort is the same, and…
Ep. 337: How Internal Safety Changes Your Emotional World
Send us a text In this week’s episode of the Fragmented to Whole Podcast, I’m exploring what actually shifts when emotional safety stops coming from outside of you and starts being built internally. We talk about how our relationship with emotions changes when we stop using them as evidence about other people and start listening…
What listeners are saying
"Barb, it's clear that you're speaking from your lived experience, and what you talk about is beyond the rooms of recovery. You actually operationalize recovery."
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"Your podcast was a delight to listen to. Authenticity, sincerity starts within and re-parenting oneself with gentleness, humor, love and respect are the tools that fuels the process."
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"You have opened doors in my mind that I did not know existed. Listening to you and your podcasts has made an enormous impact on my life, and now my outlook. You rock!" ~ A.
"Thank you, Barb! Listening to your podcast gave me hope that you could help me.
Framing everything through the lens of “boundaries” made sense to me. Something “clicked.” I realized many of my own struggles – maybe all of them – could be seen through the same lens. I also felt – after bingeing your podcasts – that I already knew you and that you were a straight shooter. You experienced many of the challenges that I was facing, and I greatly appreciated your willingness to share openly and honestly. And I was so encouraged to hear you talk about how much better your life is after starting your own recovery journey." ~ K
