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

THIS TURNS ABUSED CHILDREN INTO ADULT ABUSERS!

4 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube interview between host Josh Trent and clinician Richard Schwartz. The guest explains clinical work with sexual offenders and other violent offenders using an internal "parts" framework: offending parts can be traced to scenes of the person being abused in childhood (not always sexually), where a part adopted the perpetrator's power to protect the self and later became stuck with that perpetrator energy, producing impulses to harm vulnerability. When these parts are retrieved from the past and healed, they can transform back into healthier, valuable states.

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When you're meeting with rapists and molesters and murderers, how do you not judge them so deeply that it would bar you from doing the transformative work with the client?
I worked with sex offenders and would work with a guy's part that had done the sex offense and took a while for the person to just be curious about it because he was so ashamed of it and hated it. But if I could get that person into self and get curious and ask the offending part why it did it, he would see scenes of when he was being abused as a child. Not necessarily sexually, but abused. The part would say, look around the room and says, who has power in this room? It's this guy doing this to me. I'm going to take in his energy to protect my person from him. And then that part got stuck in that time period and also got stuck with that perpetrator energy and then had this kind of impulse to hurt vulnerability thereafter. When we could get those parts out of where they're stuck in the past and heal them, they transform too, into their naturally valuable state.