Healing Childhood Wounds Through Parenthood

From the Heart with Rachel Brathen

Rachel Brathen

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

How can you know yourself deeply if you’ve never touched the depths of your anger or reached the height of your joy? We have to feel our emotions to process them in a healthy way – and our ability to do that is often impacted by how our parents led us through sensitive moments as children. But what if our parents left us with empty spaces in our hearts? A beautiful opportunity for healing presents itself when we cross the threshold into parenthood. What if by parenting our children, we can parent ourselves? In today’s episode, Rachel is home after a trip to Costa Rica and trying to get her daughter back on her normal schedule. The result is an epic tantrum that lasts hours and emotionally drains Rachel and her husband. When it is all over, Rachel is left staring at the wall and wondering what it all means. Why do toddlers have meltdowns? Is there a purpose to it all? How can we be there for our children in the most challenging moments? If you’re a parent, then you know there is no easy way out when your child is having a major emotional tantrum. All you can do is love them, be there for them, and put your patience to the test. As you do that – you may just find you are holding your own inner child as well. By supporting them you are giving yourself the support you didn’t get when you were growing up. Loving them means you are healing old wounds and filling empty spaces in your own heart. Tune in to today’s episode to find healing in the hard moments and safety in your own unconditional love. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a brand new episode of The Yoga Girl Podcast. I am your host, Rachel Brayton.
0:09.2	I had this dream, so this is like a super weird dream. I had a dream where I started
0:14.3	introducing myself at the beginning of the podcast episode, which I never do. I don't know if that's
0:19.1	if I supposed to do that, same my name every time. I had a dream that this podcast was more like me
0:24.7	as a like a talk show host, kind of interviewing people, and then in this dream all the time, I kept
0:30.0	repeating. And I'm your host, Rachel Brayton. I'm your host, Rachel Brayton. And then the guests I
0:35.2	had on the show, none of them knew how to pronounce my last name. It was like a it was a long kind of
0:41.5	weird dream, but that's what stuck with me when I woke up was like, man, actually so many people
0:46.5	don't know how to pronounce my last name so many times I have been a guest and someone else's
0:51.8	podcast and they mess my name up as they introduce me on the show or they have to re-record and
0:56.0	like do it again. I don't know why I'm sharing this right now, but I just had that little spur of a
1:00.4	moment. I'm your host, Rachel Brayton. Yeah, welcome to The Yoga Girl Podcast. I'm not your host.
1:05.7	I am your friend, your sister, your I don't know. I don't really know what I am. I am just
1:12.4	sharing here while you hold space for me to talk. So thank you for being here and thanks for
1:17.8	listening. Okay, now that that weird intro is over, I am officially back home. I'm so happy about
1:24.8	that. You know, we just spent a couple of weeks in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is like my second home.
1:29.5	I love going there. Love visiting there. And somehow, you know, nothing beats coming back home.
1:36.1	I don't know if everybody feels that way. I had this moment where I walked in through the door
1:40.2	yesterday. We had kind of a long journey back and I opened the door to my house and I just took a
1:46.0	breath and like, man, it's a really good feeling to have a home that you actually don't need vacation
1:53.7	from. Like when coming home, it's just that amazing feeling. You really feel like you've made a
1:58.6	home for yourself. Who else feels that way? I definitely felt that way or feel that way constantly.
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