Unlearning Worthlessness: Spiritual Trauma, Repressed Identity & Inner Child Work w/ Nate Postlethwait
Adult Child
Andrea
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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💨Breathe to Heal: A Somatic Journey to Reclaim Your Inner Child: Early Bird Pricing through July 10th - get your damn spot now!
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What happens when the version of you that earned love was never the real you to begin with? This episode is a deep dive into the grief, rage, and liberation that comes from unlearning the worthlessness you were taught to feel.
Nate Postlethwait is a trauma educator, writer, and creator of The Other Side of Saved. He grew up in the deep South, survived years of childhood sexual abuse, entered conversion therapy at 18, and spent over a decade trying to pray and perform his pain away. At 30, a full-blown nervous system collapse forced him to finally face the trauma he spent years outrunning—and start the long, messy work of coming home to himself.
▪️The Weight of Repressed Identity: What happens when your true self gets buried to survive—and how reclaiming it often begins with grief, rage, and radical honesty.
▪️Religious Trauma & Spiritual Bypassing: How faith can become a weapon against authenticity—and why real healing means confronting the harm done in the name of God.
▪️The Cost of Performance & Perfectionism: Why many survivors become high achievers—and how nervous system healing allows you to stop performing and start belonging.
▪️Nervous System Collapse & Somatic Recovery: What happens when trauma catches up with the body—and how Nate rebuilt safety through EMDR, breathwork, and inner child work.
▪️Healing in Community: How real transformation begins in safe, shame-free spaces—where your story doesn’t have to be edited to be accepted.
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| 0:00.0 | It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling lies. |
| 0:07.7 | My name is Andrea, and this is an old child. |
| 0:21.9 | What's your you slow now? |
| 0:25.1 | Let it all go |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome back to a adult child |
| 0:28.1 | Where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:33.3 | Ahoy, my dear shit shows. |
| 0:36.1 | For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. |
| 0:38.5 | I am a total incomplete shit show. |
| 0:40.5 | And I am the captain of this hot mess of a ship where we talk about what the hell to do when you realize your childhood screwed you up a whole lot more than you initially thought it did. |
| 0:49.1 | So first things first, I have an exciting announcement to make. |
| 0:52.5 | So a few weeks ago, we wrapped up the first round of |
| 0:57.6 | Breathe to heal, which was a breathwork course that I co-led with fellow shit show member and |
| 1:03.8 | certified somatic breathwork practitioner, Teresa. And honestly, it was, it was amazing. It was one of the most powerful and healing experiences |
| 1:13.8 | that I've ever been a part of. And so we've decided to bring it back. But this time, |
| 1:19.5 | we are going even deeper. This next round is focused specifically on somatic inner child healing because here is the thing |
| 1:31.0 | about inner child work folks it has to be somatic to actually work it's not enough to journal |
| 1:39.6 | or visualize or buy your inner child a damn animal. If the work never reaches the body, |
| 1:48.7 | it doesn't land. And boy, do I have firsthand experience with this. Okay. I thought I was, |
| 1:54.6 | I thought I was doing inner child work until an 18 month dark night of the soul made me realize |
| 2:00.4 | otherwise. |
| 2:01.8 | So here is the deal. |
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