The Secret to Actually Loving Yourself: Falling in Love with Your Younger Parts

You’ll learn about the importance of consistency in reparenting your parts, why this process is about relationship-building, and how to find love for the protective parts of you that are often responsible for challenging behaviors or patterns. When you do this work, without having an agenda, it’s possible to feel self-love in a way that lasts and transforms every area of your life. Episode Highlights: [00:00] Introduction [01:12] You can’t “talk” yourself into self-love [05:00] An overview of Parts Work (Internal Family Systems) [12:37] An explanation of how to reparent your younger parts [19:15] The importance of building trust with your parts [21:39] Loving both your vulnerable and protective parts [35:31] The integration process and making your parts whole with you [38:26] Question 1: Deciphering if choices come from truth or trauma [49:33] Question 2: Parts work when you’ve disconnected from memories [56:51] Question 3: The root of being self-critical about our bodies Build a toolbox for regulation inside Nervous System Essentials: Ready to make tangible shifts in your life? Sarah’s introductory course, Nervous System Essentials, will teach you how to regulate your nervous system and get into the driver’s seat of your experience, so that you can move through life with more ease, calm, and presence. Click below to learn more: bit.ly/sp-nse Take Sarah ’ s FREE Quiz: Feeling stuck in your life? Not sure where to start with somatic healing? Sarah’s free quiz, “What’s Keeping You Stuck,” will equip you with free tools and a personalized guide to better understand your nervous system specific to you. Click below to get started: https://bit.ly/yms-sp-quiz Connect with Sarah on: Email Community - bit.ly/yms-sp-newsletter Instagram — instagram.com/sarahbcoaching Website — sarahbaldwincoaching.com Submit a Question: sarahbaldwin1.typeform.com/podcast Quotes: “We have to fall in love with all parts of ourselves; not just some of the parts of ourselves, all parts of ourselves.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:16:45] “Whatever part that you’re working [with] is going to need something really different.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:30:49] “We have to teach our parts what love is if they didn’t fully get to receive it.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:33:01] “Everything you feel is a truth to a version of you, it just might not be a truth to adult you.” — Sarah Baldwin [0:40:56]