What do you do when your healing journey starts to get kind of heavy? It just feels so serious,

dark and depressing all the time. You know you're doing the work, you're reading all the books,

you're going to therapy, and it's just feeling like a lot. And sometimes you just don't want to do

it anymore. Bestie, it's okay. This happens to everyone at some point. So in today's episode,

I'll explain exactly why this isn't working and just a few simple adjustments so that you can start

feeling better again, more balanced so that you can heal your trauma in a way that doesn't feel so

big and overwhelming.

I got you, as usual.

Let's dig in right after this intro.

Welcome to the Inner Child Podcast.

Now with 2 million downloads, I help high achievers recover from painful relationships

and childhood trauma.

Let's heal together on Season 2 of the Inner Child Podcast.

Besties and welcome back to the Inner Child podcast.

I'm your host, award-winning therapist and coach, Gloria Zhang.

If you're new, welcome.

We love to have you here.

Today, I thought I would just take a more casual approach talking about something that will happen to you, if not already at some point

in your healing journey, where you kind of just go down and down these healing rabbit holes,

what I call getting sucked into the traumaverse,

and things just start to feel really heavy, really dark and serious, and it just gets too much

to the point where sometimes you just don't want to do the work anymore. So I'll be talking

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