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Gabby Bernstein: Work With Your Inner Child to Break FREE from Self-Destructive Patterns

May 17, 2025
Gabby Bernstein shares her journey through childhood trauma and its lasting impact on adult behavior. She highlights how unprocessed experiences create fragmented parts of ourselves that lead to self-destructive patterns. Instead of viewing these behaviors as flaws, she encourages recognition of our inner children in need of support. With practical tools for nurturing these aspects, Bernstein offers a compassionate pathway toward healing and wholeness, allowing individuals to overcome limiting patterns and reclaim their true selves.
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INSIGHT

Inner Child Causes Adult Struggles

  • Self-destructive behaviors stem from very young, wounded parts of ourselves that never grew up.
  • These parts developed extreme protection mechanisms to survive trauma or abandonment in childhood.
ANECDOTE

Son's Bossy Response to Bullying

  • Gabby shared her son's experience of becoming 'the boss' to protect himself from a bullying older child.
  • This protective belief emerged early as a survival strategy against feeling powerless or rejected.
INSIGHT

Exiled Parts Protect Inner Wounds

  • Traumatized parts of ourselves become 'exiled parts' locked away to avoid facing painful emotions.
  • These young parts were never supported or cared for and are hidden deep within us.
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