Healing Your Inner Child: Neuroscience, Triggers, and Recovery with Shelley Treacher
Compassion is something we need to learn and to practice. Progressing a tiny step towards feeling worthy counts enormously.
What if understanding your inner child could help you break free from comfort eating and addiction? In this episode of 'Underground Confidence Recovery', Shelley Treacher, a BACP Accredited Somatic Psychotherapist, dives deep into the neuroscience and physiology of inner child wounding. She breaks down how these early emotional injuries can lead to comfort eating and other addictive behaviors.
Shelley explains the top 10 emotional triggers that often lead to addiction and how our bodies react through fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses. She also shares her 9 practical steps to start healing your inner child and calming your nervous system. By recognizing and naming your feelings, you can begin to understand the core wounds that trigger negative reactions. Shelley emphasizes the importance of self-compassion and taking small steps towards feeling worthy.
This episode is packed with actionable advice on how to address your own needs and celebrate life with loved ones. If you're looking to understand the deeper reasons behind your habits and find a path to healing, this episode is a must-listen.