(Ep. 25) The 10 Gifts (Part 2)

What if your emotional pain isn't a problem to fix, but a signal flare showing you exactly what your heart's been missing?In this episode of Triggered & True, Laura Duncan and co-host Brian Freise return to one of their most-loved topics — the 10 Gifts — but this time the focus is application, not just understanding. Because knowing the concept is easy; actually giving your younger self what it never received is where people get stuck. This is the "how" episode.Laura revisits the ten emotional needs every child is meant to receive from birth to age twelve — to be seen, heard, accepted, taught, protected, provided for, valued, told you're enough, given affection, and given play — and explains why she frames them as unconditional gifts rather than needs. From there she and Brian go deep on the hard part: how to actually access your five-year-old self (she describes memory as a full "file" reached by an overgrown pathway you can walk again), why your brain's belief that "I never got it, so I don't need it" is as false as saying you don't need food, and how "gift givers" show up in unexpected people who leave a mark not by what they said, but by how they made you feel. It closes on a reframe that reorders everything: the solution to emotional pain is not to fix, but to fill.In this episode: 🔹 Why this is the application episode — closing the gap between understanding the 10 Gifts and living them 🔹 The full list of ten, and why Laura calls them unconditional gifts rather than needs 🔹 The "file" and the overgrown pathway: how memory works, and how to reconnect with your younger self 🔹 Why "I don't need it" is a protector's lie — and why emotional needs are as real as food and water 🔹 "The solution is not to fix, but to fill" — pain as a signal flare pointing to what's missing📩 Get your free Weekly Dose of Compassion — two short notes in your inbox every week. One to speak over yourself. One from Laura: https://www.lauraduncan.com/pl/2148814868🔗 Learn more: https://triggeredandtrue.com https://lauraduncan.com