Why You Still React Like This —

12 Childhood Patterns That Follow You Into Adulthood

14-week Rewired Healing Series | Week 4

Week 4 — Meet Your Inner Child

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⚠️ Trauma-Informed Reminder

Some of what’s shared here might bring up strong emotions or old memories. Please go at your own pace.

✔️ Pause or step away if you feel overwhelmed — that awareness is part of healing.

✔️ Use grounding tools if your body feels tense (a few deep breaths, stretching, or orienting can help).

✔️ Skip this entirely if it doesn’t feel safe for you today. Your emotional safety comes first — always.

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📌 Summary: This post unpacks 12 emotional patterns that many trauma survivors experience — like shutdown, over-apologizing, or fear of conflict — and explains the neuroscience behind each one. You’ll discover how these patterns aren’t flaws, but survival responses wired into your nervous system. For each, you’ll get trauma-informed ways to respond with compassion instead of shame. Includes: Letter to My Inner Child Guided Practice.

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This week, we're diving deeper into one of the most foundational — and vulnerable — aspects of healing: inner child work.

If you’ve ever wondered why certain moments hit you so hard — or why you react in ways that feel “too much” — this post is for you.

Each of the 12 emotional patterns we explored in Tuesday’s free post are more than just personality traits.

They are:

• Nervous system imprints

• Survival responses

• Intelligent adaptations to unsafe environments

Today, we take a trauma-informed look at why each of these responses form — and how to begin responding with self-compassion instead of self-blame.

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