Wherever you are in your healing journey, reparenting is part of it. When we were raised by adults who didn’t know how to regulate their nervous system, who did not have the skills to role model healthy boundaries or conflict …
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![“It’s okay if your family doesn't understand you. You’re an adult now. You don't need their approval or validation.”](https://jennynurick-wp-media-us-east.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/28_12_23_BLUE_You_dont_need_validation-650x650.png)
You Don’t Need Validation
Differentiating from your family of origin is a journey. When you come from a family with strong traditions and family norms, differentiating can be difficult, and there can be strong backlash. Backlash can sound like threatening to cut you out …
![Inner Child Tantrums Have you ever been in a situation where you are triggered and find yourself behaving like a six-year-old? You know you are not being rational, but you cannot stop yourself from reacting in the way you are. This is your inner child taking over and dealing with the situation as a child would, from a child’s perspective, with the tools and wisdom available to a child. If this resonates with you, then inner child work is for you!](https://i0.wp.com/cdn1.jennynurick.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2-2-scaled.jpg?fit=650%2C650&ssl=1)
Inner Child Tantrums
When I am triggered, I know the reaction comes from an unhealed, younger part of myself. Let me give you an example. Let’s imagine that your mother left without any forewarning when you were seven years old. She was gone …
![14 Signs of a Wounded Inner Child Never feeling close to parents Fear of abandonment Feeling that something is wrong with you Experiencing high reactivity Experiencing high levels of guilt Being a people-pleaser Drive to over-achieve](https://i0.wp.com/cdn1.jennynurick.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/1-2-scaled.jpg?fit=650%2C650&ssl=1)
14 Signs of a Wounded Inner Child
Inner child work is some of the most profound inner work you can do on yourself. I know many therapists and healers in Sydney, all of whom have done their inner child work. It is a common language we all …
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The Wounded Inner Child
Building a healthy relationship with yourself takes time and effort if you have grown up with unhealthy relationships around you. It takes time to change the patterns that were put in place in childhood. Learning HOW to turn within and …
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What Is Inner Child Work?
Inner Child work is part of many research-based psychotherapeutic models, including Transactional Analysis, internal family systems, EMDR, Gestalt Therapy, schema therapy and narrative therapy. The reason why it is part of so many therapies is that it WORKS. We all …
![What is the Inner Child? (big title) The inner child is a part of us that feels emotions and is creative, spontaneous and joyful. Maybe the childish, exuberant child we were wasn't safe to be seen, and perhaps they were neglected or shamed. For many reasons, as we grow, we tend to hide the vulnerable parts of ourselves and lose our natural joy and spontaneity.](https://i0.wp.com/cdn1.jennynurick.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/1-19-scaled.jpg?fit=650%2C650&ssl=1)
What Is The Inner Child?
If you feel ready to meet your inner child and start the reparenting work, you’ll love my ‘Meet your Inner Child’ short self-paced course
![Do you have a Calling as a Cycle Breaker? Being a Cycle Breaker is a Calling The first time you watch something happen in your family and you think “I’m not going to do that now or ever”, and you stick to it, you become a cycle breaker.](https://i0.wp.com/cdn1.jennynurick.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/21_11_2022_CREAM_-Do-you-have-a-Calling-as-a-Cycle-Breaker-scaled.jpg?fit=650%2C650&ssl=1)
Do you have a Calling as a Cycle Breaker?
To be a cycle breaker there has to be a certain kind of waking up to the dysfunctional family patterns. This usually happens over a period of time, but it can also happen overnight, leaving you feeling completely disoriented and …
![Consequences of Unmet Childhood Needs Regression into Childhood States When childhood needs are not met as an adult, you may experience a ‘regression into intense emotional states like the ones experienced in childhood’ when that need was not met.](https://i0.wp.com/cdn1.jennynurick.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/1-2-scaled.jpg?fit=650%2C650&ssl=1)
Consequences of Unmet Childhood Needs
Our core childhood needs are: Attachment Freedom to be yourself and to have your emotions and needs validated Appropriate limits so you learn self-control Independence, competence and self-identity Play When triggered by one of these needs not being met, you …