Hello and welcome back to the Self-Healer Soundboard, how to do the work, Master Class.

Less episode we spoke about the different inner child archetypes that many of us carry

with us in our daily habits and patterns.

This episode, Jenna and I will explore the role the reactive ego plays during most of our

daily interactions as we dive into chapter 8 of how to do the work.

Hello everyone and welcome back.

Thank you for joining us for today's episode.

Now we're going to dive in deeper to the ego story so we first need to discuss what actually

is the ego.

So the ego, an easy way to think about what our ego is, is quite simply, it's our identity.

It is the stories that we tell ourselves endlessly day in and day out about who we are.

Our ego maintains narratives that are based in our very real lived experiences as we've

been talking about often way back from childhood.

Our ego and all of its stories is in service of our inner child.

Everything we spoke about last week, that vulnerable space where all of our creativity

lives, our ego believes it is showing up in service of protection of keeping that inner

child safe.

However, our ego is very defensive and very reactive coming from that space of fear.

It is inflexible.

It tends to view things as good or bad and it doesn't actually allow in the changes,

the evolutions that come along with being human.

The stories that we tell ourselves, we become stuck and we tell ourselves the same ego

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