What happens when you grow up learning not to trust what you see, feel, or know?
In this episode of the Adult Child of Dysfunction Podcast, I sit down with Chris Wasko, energy healer, spiritual counselor, psychic medium, creator of Spicy Old Souls, and author of An Old Soul's Journey: A Guide to Inner Child Healing and Conscious Evolution.
Chris shares her experience growing up with narcissistic and abusive parents and eventually making the incredibly difficult decision to walk away. She describes how that decision began a healing journey that she believes also opened intuitive and spiritual abilities that trauma had previously muted.
We explore something so many adult children understand: when you're repeatedly taught that your perceptions are wrong, you eventually stop trusting yourself. We talk about intuition, trauma, nervous system patterns, boundaries, self-love, family estrangement, and what Chris describes as the energetic weight we can continue carrying long after an experience has ended.
Chris also shares the importance of releasing the expectation that our parents will someday become the people we needed them to be—and learning to give ourselves the love and acceptance we spent years seeking from others.
And one of my favorite reminders from this conversation:
Healing can happen in micro movements.
You don't have to change everything overnight. Small shifts in awareness, movement, breath, and self-compassion can begin interrupting old patterns and bringing you back to yourself.
Whether you identify as an old soul, are curious about energy healing, or simply want to understand why childhood trauma can make trusting yourself so difficult, this conversation offers a different perspective on healing and reconnecting with yourself.
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