So you've done inner child work, but have you really? I thought I did until my abandonment

wounds came back and completely kicked my ass. So shit shows, I want to hit you with three

quick truth bombs about inner child work that I've come to learn the hard way. Okay, so number one,

you can't reparent yourself from the neck up. You can't think your way into safety. If your

body still feels tense, reactive or numb, that's your inner

child telling you the work hasn't reached them yet. Number two, talking to your inner child isn't

enough. You have to feel what they felt. And number three, reparenting has to be somatic to actually

work. Safety isn't something you say. It's something you practice. And that is what

breathwork gives us a felt

sense of safety. The younger you never got to experience. And that is exactly why I'm offering

breathe to heal a somatic journey to reclaim your inner child. It is a six-week course starting on

August 13th run by fellow shit show and somatic and breathwork practitioner,

Teresa, where we are combining breathwork, somatic practices, parts work, and community healing.

At the steal of the cost of most somatic courses, let me add, spots are limited, don't sleep on this shit.

Head to adultchildpodcast.com slash breed the heel.

That is adultchildpodcast.com slash breathe to heal. Trust me, this is the work that actually works. Am I controlling or just trying to feel okay?

Of all the modes of thinking that adult children develop to survive their childhood,

control seems to be the most troublesome to address.

That's from the big red book.

At its core, control isn't

just about managing people or outcomes. It's about managing discomfort within ourselves. Control becomes

a coping strategy for an unbearable internal experience, the anxiety of unpredictability, the fear of rejection, shame of feeling too

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