The 7 Deadly Sins with Courtney Smith

Courtney Smith, executive coach and co-author of Choosing Wholeness Over Goodness, joins us this week and we are so excited to talk to her about what it looks like to loosen our grip on being “good,” and instead allow for wholeness. 

This conversation also opens up a deeper framework through the Enneagram and the original roots of the “seven deadly sins” not as moral failings, but as patterns that once helped us feel safe, alive, or connected… and eventually became limiting. 

What we cover in this episode:

🔥 The “skillful practice of anger” and what it means to feel it without directing or suppressing it
😬 Why anger is so often followed by fear—and how those two get intertwined in the body
🧠 The subtle ways we avoid anger (including disassociation, fatigue, and “not knowing” we’re angry)
✋🏽 How anger can function as a clean signal: “this isn’t working”
🌊 Why anger doesn’t come with a roadmap—and what it asks of us instead
🌀 The original meaning of the “seven deadly sins” and how they’ve been misunderstood over time
🧭 How patterns that once protected us can become the very things that keep us stuck
💔 The cost of trying to be “good” and how it can lead to self-abandonment
🌿 What it means to choose wholeness instead—and why that can feel disorienting
🎭 Using parts work and playfulness (yes, including your inner “traffic cop”) to relate to yourself differently
⚡ The connection between anger, aliveness, and life force in the body

Courtney Smith is an executive coach who helps her clients see the world more clearly and live in greater resonance with their values, potential, and purpose.
Website: www.courtneysmithconsulting
Substack: https://courtneycsmith.substack.com/

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