Parent Yourself Like a Pro — A Guide to Inner Peace and Resilience

8 transformative benefits of connecting with your smaller parts

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Parenting yourself is learning to hold your smaller parts.

It’s an essential step in transforming trauma, growing out of addiction, and leaving acting out of victimhood behind.

When you learn to parent yourself, you’ll also create a more solid emotional ground in your relationships. With parenting yourself, you learn when you’re triggered, and instead of getting toxic, you start to see these moments as opportunities for growth.

Listening to your smaller parts is an art in itself. These parts have often been denied and made wrong for a long time.

Learn to see, hold, and hear them; your life will change.

This is easier said than done.

Let me explain what parenting yourself is, what the benefits are, and how to exercise it.

When you are in your smaller part

There is a simple rule: When you’re in your pain, in your smaller part, you often can’t control your behaviour. There is a trigger, and boom, there you go. You know you’re in your small part, but you just can’t help it. You feel you have all the right to…