This is feminist wellness and I'm your host, nurse practitioner, functional medicine expert and life coach Victoria Albina. I'll be full heart. Welcome my love let's get started.

Hello hello my love I hope this finds you doing so well. I was on a call with a client from Anker, my six-month program the other day, and she

told me that she was really struggling with the whole concept of inner child work, because she felt

like it was just a tool to, and I quote her, blame our parents for the way we are and to thereby shirk responsibility for ourselves.

So I wanted to talk about this because if she's thinking it, then some of you may be thinking it too.

So in this episode, I'll start out as my nerds love to do by defining terms, expanding on episodes 25 and 26 about

inner child work to get quite a bit nerdier for you. We'll talk about what inner child

work is and why I think it can be incredibly

useful. We'll talk about what inner adult work which is part and parcel of inner

child work is and then we'll talk about what inner child work isn't, namely, simply blaming your parents and calling it a day.

All right, let's dive in.

I'm going to nerd so hard.

All right, are you ready?

Nerd alert, my darlings.

Let's start with defining terms.

So, inner child work is basically working with our limbic system. In evolutionary terms and I'm going to try to keep this complex topic so simple my darlings, the limbic system is one of the oldest parts of our brains and the brains of fishes,

amphibians, reptiles, and other mammals.

While there is some controversy around exactly which brain structures are part of the limbic system

because it wouldn't be science without differing opinions, right? Most would agree that

the limbic is comprised of the amygdala, hippocampus,us, hyphalamus, basal ganglia, and the

cingulate gyrus. The limbic system does the most basic and vital things for us

with the goal of keeping us alive, which is very polite

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