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Nov 30, 2022Liked by Thomas P Seager, PhD

Do you have an article on how to go about this process of reparenting? I get you have relive the events and have your current self talk to the memory of yourself. Do you have to be in a meditative state for this or repeat until it sticks?

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I've been integrating several different resources, including:

The Tao of Fully Feeling, Pete Walker

Complex PTSD, Pete Walker

The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk

The Body Never Lies, Alice Miller

The Drama of the Gifted Child, Alice Miller

It Didn't Start With You, Mark Wolyn

And documenting my own journey as a case study. I've started a practice of talking to a mental image of my younger self, which is something of a meditation.

Sometimes, I have whole conversations with a younger version of myself. This is one of those:

https://medium.com/storygarden/reparenting-childhood-trauma-32637834171c

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