Why Smart People Struggle Most With Inner Child and Wounds
This is not a compliment dressed as an explanation. It’s a genuine structural problem — one that tends to go unnamed because naming it…
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This is not a compliment dressed as an explanation. It’s a genuine structural problem — one that tends to go unnamed because naming it…
You’ve read the books. You’ve followed teachers who speak beautifully about inner child work. And when you sit with your own experience, something doesn’t…
You know what the wound is. You know where it came from. You know what belief it installed and what pattern it produces. You…
You know there’s something you’re not quite looking at. You circle it in journaling. You get close in sessions and then find yourself elsewhere.…
You’ve done real work. Years of it, in some cases. And the inner child wounds still feel hard in ways that don’t quite match…
The pattern is familiar. You work on the wound — in therapy, in practice, in dedicated time — and something shifts. A period of…
If you’ve been working on inner child wounds for a while and find yourself still in the same place — or cycling back to…
The question of what belongs to you and what belongs to someone else is more complicated than it sounds.
Something changes when you leave the institutional structure and the title goes with it.
There’s a moment that comes for people who have tried a lot of healing approaches: the moment when you realize you’ve been hoping for…
Recovery from burnout has a particular texture at a certain stage: the body is coming back online, the motivation is returning in pieces, and…
Something happens when you become a mother and you’re also building a business: you discover exactly where your inner child wounds live.