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You Can’t Shame Yourself Into Healing
You can’t shame or force yourself into healing—especially if you learned to criticize yourself before you learned to comfort yourself.
In this episode, Kim Gross continues Inner Child Month by exploring what it really means to reparent your inner child as a people-pleaser or perfectionist. Building on previous episodes about perfectionism as protection and inherited approval scripts, Kim explains reparenting as becoming the safe, loving, grounded adult your younger self needed.
She shares a three-part framework for reparenting: safety, soothing, and structure. Safety means learning to stop…
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