From Roles to Realness: Breaking Free from Family Scripts and Healing the Mind-Body Connection with Lauren Smallcomb (Bonus Episode 31)

Living someone else’s script—performing the role your family assigned while quietly losing touch with who you are—makes the shift to authenticity not just an emotional transformation but a full-body reckoning.

This episode explores the fall from “golden child” to scapegoat, the link between unresolved trauma and chronic illness, and how reclaiming authenticity fosters true mental, physical, and spiritual healing.

🌿 What is mind-body healing?

🌿How our physical bodies alert us to dysfunction through illness or pain

🌿The power of family roles we are chosen for by no choice of our own

🌿The treacherous fall from the Golden Child Role to that of the Family Scapegoat

🌿How to find and live as your authentic self

🌿How and why the journey into authenticity cannot be defined by anyone other than you

Lauren Smallcomb is a Mind-Body Practitioner and co-owner of Flourish Therapy. Her journey as a healer began at 20 when she became a registered nurse, dedicating a decade to caring for patients in the ER. She later expanded her expertise to become a birth doula and, eventually, a nutritional therapist. In 2020, after making the difficult decision to walk away from a dysfunctional family system, Lauren embarked on a transformative process of rebuilding her mind and body through brain retraining and trauma healing. This journey inspired her to become a certified Mind-Body Practitioner. The newfound sense of empowerment prompted Lauren and her therapist husband to establish Flourish Therapy, with the purpose of helping others heal and thrive after childhood trauma. Born and raised in upstate New York, they now make their home in Northern Thailand with their children, two dogs, and a cat.

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MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE:

📌 [Book] Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover - https://www.amazon.com/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501

📌 [Book] Golden Child: My Descent to Scapegoat and Rise to Freedom by Lauren Smallcomb - https://flourishtherapy.kartra.com/page/goldenchild#_95sz30uj4

📌 [Book] The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D. - https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748/

CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

📌 Website: https://flourishtherapy.kartra.com/page/goldenchild

📌 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/flourish_therapy/

📌 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LukeandLaurenSmallcomb

📌 Substack: https://substack.com/@laurensmallcomb

📌 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-smallcomb-5b5545355/

📌 Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@flourish_therapy

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