How Your Inner Child Shows Up Today

🎙️ Episode Title: How Your Inner Child Still Shows Up Today

💡 Episode Summary:

In this powerful and deeply reflective episode, we explore how the unmet needs, wounds, and roles from our childhood continue to shape our adult lives, relationships, reactions, and identity. From self-sabotage to people-pleasing, from abandonment fears to hyper-independence — we uncover the subtle (and not-so-subtle) ways our inner child still shows up today.

You’ll walk away with tools to recognize these patterns, understand where they came from, and begin reparenting the parts of you that still need healing, love, and safety.

🧠 Topics We Cover:

• What is the “inner child” and why it matters
• Common childhood roles (the fixer, the strong one, the invisible one) and how they impact us now
• Signs your inner child is still running the show
• How abandonment, neglect, or emotional invalidation show up in adult relationships
• The connection between triggers, attachment styles, and childhood wounds
• How to begin the process of reparenting
• Grounding tools + journaling prompts to help listeners connect with their inner child

🔥 Deep Questions We Ask:

• Who did you have to become to survive your childhood?
• What did you long to hear as a child that you still crave today?
• How does your inner child react when they feel unseen, unsafe, or unloved?
• What core belief about yourself was formed early on — and do you still carry it?

✏️ Listener Takeaways:

• How to identify your inner child’s core wound
• How to spot when you’re being triggered vs. responding with awareness
• The importance of self-compassion and rewriting your internal narrative
• Reparenting practices and how to give yourself what you didn’t receive growing up

📓 Resources & Extras:

• Downloadable: [Inner Child Journal & Healing Worksheet]
• Printable: [Attachment Style Visual Chart]
• Instagram carousel: “5 Ways Your Inner Child May Still Be Running the Show”
• Free reparenting ritual you can do at home

🎧 Perfect For You If:

• You’ve ever wondered why certain patterns repeat in your life
• You struggle with trust, self-worth, or feeling “too much” or “not enough”
• You want to parent yourself more gently and break generational cycles