114. But Do I Need To Do Inner Child Work?
Episode description
Embracing your inner child is a concept that you might see coming up when you work on ditching diet culture and embracing a nondiet or intuitive eating approach to disordered eating recovery.
What is this all about? Do we need to do this in order to heal?
This conversation explores:
- What is the inner child?
- Being “too much”
- What is the point of inner child work?
- Where did you first learn your body was “wrong”?
- Stef’s adolescent period of restrictions
- Stef’s three moments of “splitting” at ages 8, 10, and 13
- Sarah’s padded bra
- Overriding original neural pathways
- How do we address our inner child and the stories we carry?
- Sarah’s experience at the Adele candlelit string quartet
- Throwing yourself a temper tantrum
- The body as an inner child
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