Parenting With Trauma: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds & Reparent Yourself While You Simultaneously Raise Your Own Child

Most of us arrive at gentle / respectful / conscious parenting for a reason: We want to do things differently than they were done when we were kids. And the parts of our own childhoods that we leave behind as we become parents ourselves – the punishments, developmentally inappropriate expectations, criticisms, etc. – have often left us with unmet needs & unhealed wounds.

 

In this week’s episode, I answer a listener who wonders how to deal with guilt around not having fully healed her childhood trauma before becoming a parent. I talk about how and why we can let go of that guilt, share my own story of recognizing childhood wounds through becoming a parent, and give you concrete ideas of how to heal that trauma – to reparent & heal your inner child! – WHILE also parenting your own kids. 

 

Y’all, this is a powerful episode. We ALL have unhealed wounds coming into parenthood, and it can be freaking painful to parent with what can feel like gaping, vulnerable holes where our inner child peeks through when it’s least convenient. Here’s the thing, though: You will NEVER be fully healed; healing is a PROCESS – it’s ongoing. And when you listen to this episode & hear all the ways (big and small) that you’re healing as you go, you’ll realize that you are already DOING the work. And that’s what truly matters. 

 

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