You can’t shame or force yourself into healing—especially if you learned to criticize yourself before you learned to comfort yourself.
In this episode, Kim Gross continues Inner Child Month by exploring what it really means to reparent your inner child as a people-pleaser or perfectionist. Building on previous episodes about perfectionism as protection and inherited approval scripts, Kim explains reparenting as becoming the safe, loving, grounded adult your younger self needed.
She shares a three-part framework for reparenting: safety, soothing, and structure. Safety means learning to stop self-abandonment and self-attack. Soothing means being present with emotions instead of numbing, fixing, or controlling. Structure means creating loving boundaries, routines, rest, and values-based decisions.
Kim also shares a personal example from a kitchen renovation, where her inner controller showed up through overwhelm and pressure, and how she practiced compassionate self-soothing instead. She closes with a simple exercise to use when triggered and clarifies what reparenting is—and what it is not.
This episode is for anyone learning to stop abandoning themselves for approval and begin becoming emotionally safe within themselves.
Mentioned in this episode: Free to Be: A Pathway to Inner Liberation by Kim Gross.
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