Seeking Purpose Beyond Accomplishment: An interview with Kasey Compton

The Modern Therapist's Survival Guide with Curt Widhalm and Katie Vernoy

Seeking Purpose Beyond Accomplishment: An interview with Kasey Compton

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 home town 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.

Transcripts for this episode will be available at mtsgpodcast.com!

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

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