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.
Read More“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.
Read MoreToday 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.
Read MoreHow 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.
Read MoreThe New Moon reminds us that new beginnings are always possible.
The New Moon in Virgo is inviting you to the places in you where you feel unloved. It’s a time to have compassion for yourself. It’s also a time to define your boundaries with yourself and others.
Read MoreReparenting 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.
Read MoreLeo is symbolized by a lion, which is known as the king of the jungle. Leo represents confident and sometimes brash energy. Leo represents the part of you that knows your own mind and doesn’t hesitate to become the leader of your own life. The energy of Leo is passionate and fiery.
Read MoreUp 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.
Read MoreAmong the astrological signs, Cancers, represented by the crab, are stereotyped as being emotional, sensitive, and even moody. The New Moon in Cancer is the perfect time to focus on personal goals that lean into those traits in a balanced way: honoring our most intimate feelings, noticing when we feel safe and at home, and receiving support from others - personal goals that express the positive energies of the sign of the Crab.
Read MoreAs 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.
Read MoreHow am I still dealing with these same issues, I wondered. I thought I had looked through everything. I had peeled back layers. I had done some major healing. For a year.
And that’s when I woke up to the real cause– and purpose– of these wounded cycles we inflict upon ourselves.
Read MoreIn general, Virgo symbolizes the goddess in her perfection, and therefore Virgos tends to be in control. This is amplified during the full moon; the full Moon illuminates these tendencies, allowing us to see them clearly and encouraging us to relinquish the need to orchestrate everything.
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