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Interchildwork meets us in the psychological spots, the places where we are stuck, stunted, and lost. We meet ourselves in inner childwork to give ourselves what our parenting

situations, what our parental units were unable to give. These are the stuck points that we lean into our healing. And we give this to ourselves no matter the reason that that

parent was inadequate or toxic, whether those reasons were self-created or luck of the draw like an illness in the family, we can have empathy, compassion, and

understanding for our parents, for their situation, and how they may have done their very best. And we can have empathy, compassion, and understanding for how we were affected.

Adulthood is an opportunity where we get to deal with those effects, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Dealing with these effects head on becomes an act of self-love. This is how we behave in self-respect of ourselves.

This is also how we break generational cycles of abuse, neglect, of lack, of low emotional intelligence.

What many of us are dealing with is having grown up in heavily critical and heavily negative households and circumstances, or with heavily critical and negative personalities.

And that leaves us with low self-worth and low self-esteem. Basically, if I oversimplify, many of us who are listeners of this show spent way too much time feeling broken, unworthy,

confused, incapable, wrong, lost, and basically crazy for having desires and deep thoughts, deep feelings that went wildly unvalidated.

I want you to know that no one wants to do inner child work. We get to a place where we say, okay, I give.

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