Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds
Episode 15 season 5: Biz Cush on Using Parts Work to Care for Your Sensitive Soul
Highly sensitive women may feel childhood wounds deeply. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Elizabeth Cush talks about how your parts help protect you and how you can heal.
“We’re learning to build a compassionate, kind loving relationship with ourself. Through that process, all parts of us learn to trust us.” ”
Show Notes:
Not all childhood wounds are physical. If we didn’t get our emotional needs met when we were young, we can carry those hurts with us well into adulthood. We can feel the impact of those childhood traumas on both our physical and mental health, in turn affecting how we show up in the world. In this episode of the Awaken Your Wise Woman podcast, host Biz Cush, LCPC, a licensed professional therapist, founder of Progression Counseling in Maryland and Delaware, and Sacred Guide for Highly Sensitive Women, talks about adverse childhood experiences like childhood emotional neglect, the mechanisms we develop to cope with them and how they show up in our “parts.” She’ll also share how Internal Family Systems (IFS) work—getting to know our parts and approaching them with curiosity and compassion when they are triggered—can help us build a kind, caring relationship with ourselves that meets the needs of our bodies and our emotions, helps heal those old wounds, and empowers us to show up in the world from a more grounded place.
Listen and learn:
How adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can impact us and activate our parts
The different parts that developed to help us cope when we went through difficult things as children
How our parts helped us survive then—and what they do for us now
The kinds of situations that can turn on our firefighter part—and the possible consequences
The three things that compassion for our parts can help those parts understand
Where to learn more about working in depth with your parts
How Biz began her journey toward a more compassionate relationship with her parts—and where it has taken her
The benefits of spending mindful time in Nature
Why it’s so important to be in tune with your body
Why we might not always realize that our emotional needs weren’t met
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Other episodes you might enjoy
Awaken Your Wise Woman Episode 1-12: Biz Cush/Listen to Your Body (Somatic IFS)
Woman Worriers Episode 162: Michelle Glass/Are You Listening to All Your Parts
Resources mentioned in this episode
The Autoimmune Campfire Podcast Interview with Biz
The Autoimmune Campfire Podcast
The IFS Institute website
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