Zimmerman Podcast Episode 134: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: The Cycle Stops with You: How to Choose a New Story

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 130: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: Compassion for Yourself and Those Who Raised You: Reparenting Your Inner Child

Reparenting Your Inner Child: The Cycle Stops with You: How to Choose a New Story

I’ve heard it said that an emotionally neglected child doesn’t stop loving their parents. They stop loving themselves.

That’s why this section on reparenting is so essential. Because each of us has ways we’ve felt neglected or under-nurtured. Our parents are humans, after all. But when those wounds occur in childhood, we assume we’re the problem.

And we stop loving ourselves.

Until we gain the wisdom to reparent ourselves and break the cycle of generational trauma.

Reparenting Your Inner Child: Finding What You’re Looking for… Inside Yourself: Healing Father Wounds

“Daddy issues.”

We’ve all heard the term. When a woman finds herself in another relationship with a “deadbeat” guy, or a man keeps running into problems with the law, we tend to say they have “daddy issues.”

And while that might be an unfair stereotype, there is a reality to the impact of father wounds.

Reparenting Your Inner Child: Finding Peace About Who You Are: Healing Your Mother Wound

Today we’re going to talk about mother wounds.

A mother’s presence is a powerful thing. It has the strength to uplift and inspire, and the potential to damage and disparage. Any kind of literal or emotional neglect can sow seeds in childhood that take all through adulthood to identify and root out. Like a weed left to grow for decades, it can grow as large as a tree.

Reparenting Your Inner Child: Break Harmful Cycles by Honoring Your Inner Child

How can we learn to hear, see, and heal the inner child in ourselves? The first step is to recognize what unmet needs look like when they’re ignored or unanswered for years, if not decades.

Because sometimes our most familiar patterns aren’t choices we’re making but habits we’re falling back into, and we must learn to differentiate between our intuition guiding us and our traumas– both big and small– misleading us.

Zimmerman Podcast Episode 130: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: Compassion for Yourself and Those Who Raised You

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 130: REPARENTING YOUR INNER CHILD: Compassion for Yourself and Those Who Raised You: Reparenting Your Inner Child

Compassion for Yourself and Those Who Raised You: Reparenting Your Inner Child

Reparenting your inner child is one of the most powerful tools for healing we have in our toolbox. What do I mean by “reparenting?” What do I mean by “inner child?” Some of you may be familiar with these ideas, and some of you maybe not so much.

Zimmerman Podcast Episode 129: REMOVING SHAME AND SHEDDING LIMITING BELIEFS: How Eliminating “Should” from Your Vocabulary Removes Shame from Your Life

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 129: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: How Eliminating “Should” from Your Vocabulary Removes Shame from Your Life

Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: How Eliminating “Should” from Your Vocabulary Removes Shame from Your Life

Up to this point in this series of coming home to ourselves in The Path Back to You, each chapter has consisted of four parts, but as I began to write the next chapter, I realized I wanted to go a little deeper with this word, “should” and why we need to do our best to eliminate it from our vocabulary.

Zimmerman Podcast Episode 128: REMOVING SHAME AND SHEDDING LIMITING BELIEFS: Your Helpful Guides: Triggers and Glimmers

Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 128: Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: Your Helpful Guides: Triggers and Glimmers

Removing Shame and Shedding Limiting Beliefs: Your Helpful Guides: Triggers and Glimmers

As we close out our chapter on removing shame and shedding limiting beliefs, we’ve gotta talk about triggers and glimmers.

We all know what triggers are. Trigger warning! Painful stuff is coming! Triggers are ways we respond– even in ways we can’t control– to things that bring up past pain. It’s a way our body remembers threats, to try to protect us.

Glimmers are similar, except instead of remembering pain, our bodies are remembering joy. They are welcoming back beauty and saying, I see you. I remember you.

The thing is, both triggers and glimmers are good things, because they act as arrows pointing to growth.