Episode 67: Reparent Your Sensitive Inner Child with Julie Bjelland and Willow McIntosh
Show Notes
Learning how to give yourself what you needed as a child can be a powerful healing practice that can transform your life.
Discussions in this episode:
Let’s explore the concept of caring for your inner child
Getting to know and connecting with your inner child. We share our stories too.
What did you need that you didn’t get?
Learning to listen to your inner child’s needs: validation, nurturing, honoring, healing
Is your self-talk truly yours or is it the voice of your parents, society, or culture?
Does your self-talk soothe you or stress you?
Practicing intentional reprogramming & changing the pattern
Growing more self-love: We can be loved at the level we love ourselves
We share some powerful practices that can support you
Here are what some of you said you needed as a child...
acceptance as myself as I was and encouragement, not being pushed to be like others
reassurance that everything was ok or would be.
Asking me: how are you? What is your opinion? How do you feel?
I needed encouragement, special attention, apart from the attention my siblings were getting.
I needed soothing.
that is was ok to have big feelings It's ok to be different than others I needed to be allowed to cry when I felt sad and hurt.
I needed nurturing.
I needed compassion and understanding about my sensitivity to noise. Instead, I was either ignored or told I was wrong and bad.
What did you need as a child? What does your inner child need? I would love to hear from you in the comments below!
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About the Hosts
Julie Bjelland is a sensitivity expert, licensed psychotherapist, and author of several books, and teaches the online course Brain Training for the Highly Sensitive Person, Techniques to Reduce Anxiety and Overwhelming Emotions, highly recommended by psychologists Tara Brach Ph.D., and Rick Hanson Ph.D. Julie’s brain training program has helped highly sensitive people (HSPs) around the world reduce their challenges, access their gifts, and discover their resiliency, inner strength, and significant value. Julie serves as the sensitivity expert for Dr. Hanson’s online program and is a member of the faculty of The Shift Network. Known for her ability to give people a sense of true support, Julie is featured on national media regularly and on a mission to empower sensitive people to live their best lives.
Highly sensitive people thrive quickly with the right tools and I have loved helping highly sensitive people (HSPs) around the world reduce anxiety and thrive to their fullest potential. The techniques I have developed come from years of working with highly sensitive people all over the world and have been extremely successful for the clients and students I work with. Our life gets a lot better and so does the life of those around us when we are thriving and your sensitive self is beautiful and valuable. We need you in the world. ~Julie
Willow McIntosh is the founder of Inluminance and leader of the High Sensory Intelligence movement. Unique circumstances during Willow’s childhood lead to the burying of his authentic self and complete misalignment to the work he was destined for. He began to carve his own path into understanding how people with sensory processing sensitivity can learn to use their genetic traits to their advantage. As an adult this lead to a lifelong enquiry and practise into learning powerful energetic alignment techniques to re-engage with the authentic self. Willow believes that all people with the trait have the ability to tap into a unique skill that draws on a deeper sensory perception. Founded in their own life experience and self development they have the capacity to facilitate great transformation and development in others. Willow is on a mission to awaken us to the responsibility we have to utilise the abilities it affords in business, governments and leadership. Having successfully facilitated the development of seven figure businesses Willow’s practise has taken him all over the world. Speaking internationally, training in a broad range of fields and facilitating others for more than twenty years. Willow now specialises in facilitating people with the trait to activate them into service in alignment with their gifts and purpose and to support them to take their own businesses to the next level towards automation and leadership.
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Resources & Links Mentioned in Episode
To take Julie’s free sensitivity quiz, explore her books and courses for the sensitive and learn tools to reduce the challenges and access your gifts, visit www.juliebjelland.com.
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