Rikki and Jimmy on Relationships Healing our Inner Child with Trevor Hanson
Jul 9, 2025
Trevor Hanson, a licensed marriage and family therapist specializing in attachment and inner child healing, shares invaluable insights on emotional growth. He dives into the importance of healing childhood traumas and their impact on adult behaviors. Trevor emphasizes recognizing and nurturing our inner child through techniques that foster self-compassion. He also discusses the role of sadness in enhancing emotional understanding and encourages proactive engagement in relationships, ultimately guiding listeners toward resilience and fulfillment.
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Feeling, Not Just Knowing
- Intellectual understanding rarely heals deep emotional wounds created in childhood.
- Trevor says you must access and feel the emotional memory to create real transformation.
Target The Emotionally Stored Wound
- If your logic brain can't reach the wound, use visualization and somatic work to access older brain regions.
- Target the part of your nervous system that holds the trauma rather than only talking about it.
Therapist's Own Attachment Story
- Trevor shares he had anxious attachment from childhood that drove clingy dating behaviors and premature commitment.
- He realized he sought others to soothe needs his younger self never had met.
