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POWER TOOL #2: REPARENTING
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.
—IYLANA VANZANT
THE CHILD WITHIN
We often tend to ignore how much of a child is still in all of us.
—ELISABETH KÜBLER-ROSS
When you look at yourself in the mirror, you see a grown woman staring back, right? But what you don’t see in that mirror is the little girl who’s very much alive inside you. A little girl whose needs probably weren’t met growing up. A little girl who may have been abused, abandoned, rejected, traumatized, shamed, or mistreated in subtle ways. And this little girl is likely the reason your resistance won’t let up. She’s scared. She needs attention. But alas, you continue to ignore her.
“The inner child is real,” writes psychologist ...
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