Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

intimate relationship: a catalyst for healing #healing #relationships #parenting #innerchild

27 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Josh Trent arguing that while solo self-work can take someone far, true healing of the inner child requires dynamic intimate relationships or parenting. The speaker emphasizes authenticity — you cannot permanently 'be' someone you are not, and unprocessed limitations will be exposed by future traumatic events.

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I do not think it's possible to truly heal yourself and to truly heal your inner child unless you are in dynamic intimate relationship and or a parent. I agree you can get a very long way with it. But if you really want to reach the highest potential of your own self, then you have to understand that you're limited by the capacity of your own healing. I can't be something that I'm not. I can fake it for a while, but if I'm truly not the person that I'm saying that I am, eventually the wheels will fall off the wagon. It'll just happen. The universe will bring in a traumatic event and it'll knock me down to where I actually am.