42: Parts Work 101: How to Stop Overreacting and Start Leading with Your Wise Adult Self

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Have you ever felt like you’re being pulled in a dozen different directions? One part of you wants to rest, another tells you you're lazy. One part wants to go out and connect, another begs you to stay home and hide. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone—and this episode is for you.

In today’s episode, I’m introducing you to one of the most powerful tools I use in my own healing and with my clients: Parts Work. This practice helps you understand the different inner voices inside you—like the perfectionist, the people pleaser, or the avoider—not as flaws, but as intelligent parts that once kept you safe.

I’ll walk you through:

• How your Vulnerable Part, Protector Parts, and Wise Adult show up (with real-life examples from my own journey),
• How to recognize which part is in the driver’s seat,
• And a 3-step process to shift out of reactivity and into alignment.

You’ll learn how to stop living on autopilot, stop performing to prove your worth, and start showing up from your calm, clear, grounded self—your Wise Adult. Because once you lead from that place, everything changes.

This is one of those episodes that I wish every woman could hear. It’s tender. It’s practical. And it just might shift how you relate to yourself forever.

If it resonates, I’d love for you to share it with another strong woman who needs this reminder too.

• Coco Duan helps high-achieving women executives who secretly doubt themselves to lead powerfully and live authentically by building unshakable confidence.

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