34. Reparenting and retraining our Mental Health

Episode 34Welcome to the Healing Pod! Jess’ amazing line of the day” I’m not broken, I’m building. Take it one tiny messy step at a time, every step forward is movement.” Reparenting is a hard process of paying attention to what lessons we didn’t learn, what lessons we learned that don’t work for us anymore, and what we need now that we may be pretending we don’t because no one else specifically said it’s a need.There is a very fantastical way of rebirthing and reparenting where you squish people with pillows (has resulted in death by asphyxiation, not recommended), have a conversation with your inner child and tell yourself you’re lovable, cry, and suddenly adult.Or there is the actual functioning way of assessing where you’re at and what you need, calling yourself out on bad habits, and letting yourself learn and explore what could help you be a better functioning person without shame for where you’ve come from and what you may have missed.Jess’ ideas to work on between sessions: What would you do different in response to what age of yours is acting out?Take a pause and ask yourself: What am I feeling emotionally right now? What do I need that I didn’t get today? And what would a healthy, grounded version of me do next?As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being. Come join us and chat, complain, or send in what mental health you would like to hear us ramble about! Find us on Facebook, TikTok, and instagram at The Healing Pod We are online at https://www.PeasInTheHealingPod.com  You can email us any questions, suggestions, comments, or memes at [email protected]  If you want to hunt down the bits and bobbles that have been cut out of our episode, join us for another live recording, or just to buy us a cup of coffee, come join us at https://www.patreon.com/TheHealingPod