Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds

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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.”
— Phoenix Gould

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:

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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