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I Meet the Part of Me That Learned to Chase Perfection: Inner Child Healing Guided Meditation · Meditations for Inner Peace

• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: You made it here.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole first step.
• 0:11
  SPEAKER_00: Find somewhere comfortable and let everything settle.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath move like a slow wave in and back out.
• 0:33
  SPEAKER_00: And again in and out.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: Let your breath find its own rhythm now.
• 1:20
  SPEAKER_00: See if anything can soften.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: You're going to go somewhere now, back gently, safely, not to revisit pain, but to offer something.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine a space from when you were much younger, a room, a garden, a hallway.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: Wherever arrives for you, you don't need a specific memory, just a sense of a time before you carried what you carry now.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: And somewhere in that space you find a younger version of you.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_00: Notice how they look, what their face holds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe from a teacher, a parent, a system, the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: They learned that love or safety or belonging came most reliably when they got things right.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they were excellent, careful, pleasing, thorough.
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  SPEAKER_00: When they tried hard enough.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so they did.
• 3:33
  SPEAKER_00: They tried and tried.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it worked sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so the trying became the only safe way to be.
• 3:49
  SPEAKER_00: You know this part of yourself so well.
• 3:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's still with you now, still braced, still keeping the score.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Move toward the younger you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sit beside them and offer them gently, clearly, the thing they most needed to hear.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: You don't have to be perfect to be loved.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: You never did.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_00: The love was always there.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: It just didn't always look the way it should have.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: You were always enough, exactly as you were.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: Say it again softer.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_00: I am enough without the performance.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: Say it again.
• 9:45
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