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

TIME-TRAVEL THERAPY FOR TRAUMA HEALING

5 Aug 2025 · 0 min

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This transcript excerpt captures a conversation from the YouTube video "TIME-TRAVEL THERAPY FOR TRAUMA HEALING" (Josh Trent). The speakers explain that trauma work requires accessing state-dependent memory —"time traveling" experientially to feel the original sensations and thoughts — so the wounded child-parts can be reparented. They note romantic partnerships commonly trigger these early wounds, because present interactions can recreate past relational contexts; when the adult does not reparent those parts, the nervous system enacts protective parts that drive reactive behavior.

Trauma work should not ever overwhelm you and re traumatize you. We have to go back to the state dependent memory in order to resolve it. That means we have to time travel. So I will feel, for all intensive purposes, the exact feelings sensations. I will have the same thoughts as that tiny child.
How exactly does that work in.
Romantic partnership? That is where our youngest wounds show up the most. Because nothing replicates our childhood as much. Because I'm not here. I'm in 1985 or 1975 or 2005. Or maybe I'm not in my childhood. I'm in that relationship where that person cheated on me. And I'm responding as if I'm in that experience from five years ago, not in the one from today. How do you pick different? You re parent those little parts. So if we are not the parent to these parts, your nervous system shows up as the ultimate parent in the form of a protective part.
And do you find that most people are attracted to this work because they're sick of feeling alone and they're sick of being exhausted?