Your Inner Child: Is Yours a Voyager, a Defensive Driver, or a Scuba Diver?

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Who is your Inner Child, and what are they (still) saying? It’s amazing how strongly our little selves show up in our adult lives. Buckle Up – in this hilarious, profound conversation, Glennon, Abby, and Amanda invite their inner children to come forward and share their delights, blessings, and curses with the Pod Squad. Together, we spiral around: - Why some of us become the family “feeler” and others the “fixer,” and how we can all become more whole; - How to honor the part of you who planned, dreamed, or disassociated to survive, without letting that little kid run your whole adult life; and - How Abby is using music, dancing, and play as an antidote to her anxiety.

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0:00.0	Here's what's interesting. It's how I've kind of lived the last four or five years of my life,
0:04.9	where when there's any perception of stress, I have usually been of the right amount of faculty in my own body to be able to counteract it with joy.
0:18.3	But I've been so stressed over the last six months that I haven't had myself
0:22.7	to counteract any of the perception of anxiety or stress with any joy. And so I have been
0:30.1	actively making our life worse because I'm not injecting what joy we need in the world.
0:38.6	You're right. It's a really good mission statement. And I'm not injecting what joy we need in the world. You're right.
0:39.7	It's a really good mission statement.
0:41.3	And I completely hear you.
0:45.0	And it is an interesting thing about how stress can just take away your personality.
0:49.6	Yeah.
0:50.1	For me, too, because I'm like a presence person.
0:52.8	I'm not an anxiety person.
0:54.1	I don't fucking believe in it.
0:55.8	I mean, I believe your experience with it.
0:58.4	Well, I don't know how I got brought into this.
1:00.3	We were just talking about anxiety in general.
1:02.0	But wait, was Abby saying that like the anxiety used to be all outside of you so you could bring your life force to counteract it but now you have
1:12.2	anxiety in you so you can't yes like there would be anxiousness in the ether out here and then
1:20.5	I'm like I know what to do with this anxiety I'm going to do some fun joy thing and then I can
1:26.9	counteract it.
1:27.7	And so like it balances it out.
1:30.1	Right.
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