This week on Honestly, Dear Listener, we’re talking about time traveling back to parts of our wounded childhood selves. We talk about how behind every traumatic event in our lives, we form a belief about that thing, and often, these unhelpful beliefs keep us stuck. We discuss pulling up those (often unconscious) beliefs, examining them, and walking our childhood selves through the trauma, with the knowledge, wisdom, gentleness, and support of our older selves. While revisiting these memories, we replace our outdated beliefs with new, wholehearted beliefs.
References:
Listen to Part 1 and Part 2 of “How Fundamentalism STILL Affects How We Create” (episodes 21 and 22) of the Honestly, Dear Listener podcast
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, book by Julia Cameron
TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Intro
0:58 - Childhood homes as a metaphor for our childhood selves
3:22 - Reliving painful childhood memories
4:21 - Basis for EMDR?
7:53 - Neural plasticity - we can change our brains
9:39 - Emily’s unhelpful childhood beliefs
13:43 - Carrie’s unhelpful childhood beliefs
17:26 - “Smell my butthole!”
21:10 - Examining the belief & replacing it
39:54 - Audacity