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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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💨Breathe to Heal: A Somatic Journey to Reclaim Your Inner Child: 6-week course combining breathwork, somatic practices & part work
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Recovery isn’t always a clean, upward trajectory — and most people don’t talk about what happens when it isn’t. This episode cracks open the shame, stigma, and complexity that surface when long-term sobriety takes a detour.
William C. Moyers is the Vice President of Public Affairs at Hazelden Betty Ford and the author of Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption. In this conversation, he opens up about a rarely shared chapter of his recovery — one that tested his identity, sparked unexpected shame, and forced him to reexamine what long-term sobriety really looks like.
Key Takeaways...
🔹 Redefining Relapse: Why recovery isn’t linear — and how we can reframe slips without erasing progress, identity, or self-worth.
🔹 The Weight of Perfectionism: How the pressure to be a “model” of healing can silence honesty and deepen internalized shame.
🔹 When Shame Returns: What happens when long-term recovery collides with stigma, secrecy, and unmet expectations.
🔹 The Evolution of Sobriety: Why what once worked may stop working — and how true recovery means learning to adapt, not perform.
🔹 Family Systems & Codependency: How generational roles and emotional entanglements can follow us into adulthood — and what it takes to break free.
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0:00.0 | So you've done inner child work, but have you really? I thought I did until my abandonment |
0:04.1 | wounds came back and completely kicked my ass. So shit shows, I want to hit you with three |
0:09.2 | quick truth bombs about inner child work that I've come to learn the hard way. Okay, so number one, |
0:14.1 | you can't reparent yourself from the neck up. You can't think your way into safety. If your |
0:18.7 | body still feels tense, reactive or numb, that's your inner |
0:21.9 | child telling you the work hasn't reached them yet. Number two, talking to your inner child isn't |
0:26.6 | enough. You have to feel what they felt. And number three, reparenting has to be somatic to actually |
0:32.2 | work. Safety isn't something you say. It's something you practice. And that is what |
0:36.7 | breathwork gives us a felt |
0:38.3 | sense of safety. The younger you never got to experience. And that is exactly why I'm offering |
0:44.4 | breathe to heal a somatic journey to reclaim your inner child. It is a six-week course starting on |
0:50.4 | August 13th run by fellow shit show and somatic and breathwork practitioner, |
0:54.9 | Teresa, where we are combining breathwork, somatic practices, parts work, and community healing. |
1:00.7 | At the steal of the cost of most somatic courses, let me add, spots are limited, don't sleep on this shit. |
1:06.0 | Head to adultchildpodcast.com slash breed the heel. |
1:08.9 | That is adultchildpodcast.com slash breathe to heal. That is adult child podcast.com slash breed to heal. |
1:11.8 | Trust me, this is the work that actually works. |
1:16.4 | It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. |
1:22.4 | My name is Andrea and this is it old child. |
1:47.7 | Welcome back to an old child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
1:50.8 | Ahoy, my dear shit shows. |
1:53.4 | For any new listeners, my name is Andrea. |
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