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

YOU'RE NOT BROKEN JUST PROTECTING YOURSELF

2 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a talk about subpersonalities (‘parts’) formed during trauma. The speaker explains that parts are protective inner personalities that can become stuck in harmful roles; healing involves approaching these parts with empathy, listening to and supporting them as suffering beings rather than dismissing them as mere thoughts or emotions.

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When you say there's no bad parts, what do you mean by that exactly? That we all are born with these subpersonalities I came to call parts. They all have different roles to help us in our lives. But for most of us, they get frozen in time during the trauma. They're forced out of their naturally valuable states into roles that can interfere in your life or can even destroy your life. They're little inner people, little inner personalities who are stuck in these protector roles. The step that ifs takes is to go to these parts and embrace them and listen to them and help them as you would, as if they were your kids. Because you see them as suffering beings rather than just random thoughts and emotions.