This content was created by Lewis Howes. This content was uploaded by Lewis Howes. This is a YouTube video titled "Understanding Your Inner Child | Dr. Tara Swart" featuring a discussion between Dr. Tara Swart and another speaker about psychological concepts such as the inner child and shadow, and how these affect adult relationships.
If we want to have a beautiful relationship. But we are wounded still. The inner child is wounded inside of us as adults. What will happen to us?
So this is really about inner child and shadow. I think people understand that you've got an inner child that maybe didn't get over things that you experienced in your childhood. Shadow is about the parts of yourself that you've rejected because as a young child, you rely on your primary caregivers for survival.
Yes.
And if there is something that they don't love about you, you want to hide that for all the world so that they will still love you and, like, not let you die.
You don't want anyone to know this about you.
No.
That's shame.
So you hide it away in childhood and often find yourself in adulthood no longer even aware of what those things are because you've rejected them so deeply. That's driving a lot of your unconscious behavior. So if you put together the inner child and the shadow, what happens is you meet people on the same level of psychological wound as you.
Oh, man.
You also leave people if you evolve out of that and they haven't been able to.
