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You Can’t Change Childhood — But You Can Heal It

29 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker explains that while parents are generally well‑intentioned, childhood experiences may leave emotional wounds that persist into adulthood. These unresolved parts manifest as bodily sensations and unmet needs. The speaker advocates for "re‑parenting" oneself: treating those inner child parts with the same kindness, love, and nurturing a real baby would receive, then allowing them to progress through developmental stages—baby, teenager, adult—while acknowledging inevitable push‑back and awkwardness. The goal is to heal the unmet nurturing, enabling the adult self to become more fully integrated rather than remaining stuck in a child‑like state.

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Not to blame your parents, not to say— most parents are just doing the best they can. But that's why you might experience certain things in your body that, that are activated. They're, they're, they're— because there was something that wasn't 100% loving and nurturing that you're still undoing. Even now, and that's why you have to re-parent yourself so that part of you can grow up and go through the proper development. As you have to really treat those parts of yourself, those feelings, those emotions as a little baby, and be very kind and loving and nurturing so that it can then start to become a teenager and be a little awkward and like, "Okay, let me try this out." And how's this feel? Okay, they're gonna push back and they're gonna be a little bit you know troublesome. Okay, I'm still gonna love you. I'm gonna. Nurture you so it can become an adult. Most of the time, adults aren't actually fully adults.