How Do I Heal My Inner Child?

Rachel Havekost, M.Sc.
8 min readSep 17, 2021

This simple three step process changed my life.

Photo by Elia Pellegrini on Unsplash

At age 15, I was diagnosed with an Eating Disorder. Over the course of the next 17 years, I was in and out of therapy for depression, anxiety, panic attacks, grief, sexual trauma, childhood trauma, marriage counseling, and so much more.

I felt completely stuck and overwhelmed with why I struggled so much to cope with life, and for a long…

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Rachel Havekost, M.Sc.

Author / Speaker. Destigmatizing mental health with radical transparency. Hoping to meet you in the deep end. Author of bestseller “Where the River Flows.”