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Healing Your Inner Child So You Don’t F*ck Up Your Next Relationship - Terry Real

The Mindvalley Podcast

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The Most Important Question I Ask People as a Psychologist

The most important question I ask people to ask is this as a therapist. The adaptive child is a kid's version of an adult. It looks like an adult, but it's not. You do the same damn thing every time. In our work, in our LT, first we confront the repeated thing that the adaptive child part of you keeps doing over and over again. We call it your relational stance. So for example, angry pursuit is a dysfunctional stance. Take a walk around the block. Get re centered. Remember that the person I'm speaking to is someone I care about. And the reason why I'm speaking is to make things better there.

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