Welcome to Zimmerman Podcast Episode 134: 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.

We often hear of breaking generational cycles. Well I believe there are two steps to this:

A person notices a toxic cycle or pattern in their family unit and decides they want to break it.

You wake up to the pattern, and then you decide to live outside of the pattern.

Before we notice the toxic cycle, we are burdened by shame. We call ourselves lazy, broken, unlovable, unfixable. It takes us years to realize that it isn’t our voice jeering those names. We’re repeating spoken (or unspoken) messages we received in childhood, messages that we let dictate our worth for far too long. When we decide to heal, we’re choosing to believe truth instead of lies.

Are you a cycle breaker? Let’s get into what that looks like in today’s podcast.

EPISODE 134 TOPICS:

The two steps to breaking generational cycles
Set boundaries out of an abundance of love for yourself; that’s when healing can happen. But let's not get it twisted: setting boundaries comes at a cost.
Tips for being in relationship with loved ones, especially parents, while you try to heal your inner child

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