3. Raised, Not Healed — The Inner Child Who Still Runs the Show

Hey familia...
This episode is for the parts of you that flinch at rejection, shut down when emotions run high, and keep replaying old memories, trying to make sense of them.

We're talking Dominican inner child healing — not the Pinterest version, but the real one. The kind that’s ancestral, spiritual, embodied, and holy.

We explore:

• Why survival mode shaped your personality
• How unspoken childhood pain becomes adult patterns
• Why “being strong” cost you softness
• How trauma hides in your nervous system
• What it really means to reparent yourself and return to God

You’ll get journal prompts for each segment, spiritual insight, and a Dominican-style prayer for your healing journey.

This one isn’t just personal. It’s generational.
 And it’s gonna move something in you.

📚 Referenced Books & Resources:

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
• Proverbs 4:23 – “Guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.”
• Isaiah 61:3 – “...to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes.”

🧠 What You'll Learn:

• How trauma gets stored in the body
• The link between people-pleasing and childhood pain
• Why abundance is blocked when your inner child is still hurting
• How emotional literacy and nervous system regulation are spiritual acts
• What reparenting looks like day-to-day
• Why you can’t separate faith from your healing

📝 Journal Prompts Included:

1. Where does your inner child show up in your adult life?
2. What did you need to hear as a child that you still long for?
3. What parts of you still feel unworthy of love?
4. What physical symptoms might be emotional wounds in disguise?
5. What would it look like to trust God with your healing?
6. Where have you silenced yourself in order to feel safe?
7. What do you want to say to your inner child today?
8. How can you reparent yourself with consistency, not just self-care?
9. What spiritual practices help regulate your nervous system?
10. How does staying small serve your survival, but not your soul?

🙏 Dominican-Style Prayer Highlight:

“Let my healing be a prayer. Let my rest be a rebellion. Let my softness be my return home.”

🌊 Final Words from Caitlin:
If you made it to the end of this episode, I honor you.
You just held hands with your inner child, looked your trauma in the face, and decided you're worth healing.

Don’t rush this. Let it breathe.
 Journal. Cry. Dance. Lay down. Pray. Walk barefoot.

This is the work. And you’re doing it.

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