Close Encounters With My Inner Child

Judith L. Pellegrino

Mental Health Professionals and Spiritual Leaders encourage us to re-parent our Inner Child with gentleness, humor, love and respect. This podcast outlines problems in my adult life that are caused by my wounded inner child. I share insights, wisdom, and techniques that helped me reparent my wounded inner child. I articulate intimate conversations between my adult Self and wounded Inner Child to help listeners identify their own wounded inner Children. I share resources that help me reparent myself and help me to reframe traumatic childhood events to prevent recreating them in my adult life.

  • 21 minutes 54 seconds
    Healing Defensive Judy Part 2
    In this episode I will illustrate how defensive Judy shows up in my adults daily interactions. I will share a personal experience she had with her husband of 37 years. I will describe Defensive Judy’s reaction, and how my adult tried to parent this protective part. I will share how a timely, Powerful YouTube video called, Making Marriage Work” helped diffuse Defensive Judy’s intense reaction and inspired her to draft a meaningful letter to her husband. I will tie it all up in a bow of vulnerability that gave birth to more respect and appreciation in their marriage.
    17 March 2024, 11:44 pm
  • 17 minutes 17 seconds
    Healing Defensive Judy Part1
    In this episode, I will be reading multiple entries from my adults daily internal family system journal on a protector part, called, Defensive Judy
    17 March 2024, 10:41 pm
  • 33 minutes 57 seconds
    HEALING DEFENSIVE JUDY
    In this episode, I will be reading entries from my adult daily internal family system journal on a protector part, called defensive Judy. It includes 9 dates only. I will illustrate how defensive Judy shows up in my adult’s interactions by sharing a personal experience she had with her husband of 37 years. I will describe defensive Judy’s reaction and how my adult tried to parent this protective part. I will share how a timely, powerful YouTube video called “Making Marriage Work” helped diffuse defensive Judy’s intense reaction. I will read a clear, concise letter my adult wrote to her husband and tie it all up in a bow of vulnerability that gave birth to more respect and appreciation in their marriage.
    13 March 2024, 7:27 pm
  • 14 minutes 8 seconds
    The Gift
    In this episode, I will share a prayer, a major disturbance between my adult & her husband & how she worked through it. I will connect the dots between the prayer, the disturbance & healing my inner child 49 years after her wounding.
    19 November 2023, 1:50 pm
  • 29 minutes 1 second
    Judge Judy Part 2 (Going Deeper)
    In this episode, I will expose the roots of my adult’s protector part, Judge Judy. I will do this by sharing stories from her childhood & teens years. These stories will validate what Dr Richard Schwartz wrote a book about. It’s called, “No Bad Parts”. Lastly, I will connect these stories with lessons Michael Singer taught my adult. These emotional & spiritual lessons are helping mt adult to transform Judge Judy and her other parts daily.
    24 October 2023, 4:59 pm
  • 10 minutes 31 seconds
    Judge Judy Part 1
    This episode relates to a couple resources I shared during my last podcast, called “Dynamic Duo”. Those resources are Michael Singer, and Internal Family Systems created by Dr. Richard Schwartz. I will share what my adult learned through this process of getting to know Judge Judy.
    23 October 2023, 7:33 pm
  • 19 minutes 8 seconds
    Dynamic Duo
    In this episode I will share with you a couple of healing resources my adult discovered including how she has implemented them into her healing journey. This episode is a prelude to sharing how my adult uses journaling with her own “Internal Family Systems”. We hope you will find these resources and her process useful on your healing journey. These segments can be heard following the Dynamic Duo Episode.
    4 October 2023, 2:29 pm
  • 28 minutes 25 seconds
    Curses and Blessings
    In this episode I will share how my adult prepared for a difficult conversation with her youngest adult son on Mothers Day which included assistance from her supportive husband. I will share how a Disney/Pixar movie helped my adult/child to heal her perspective of her mom, herself as a teen and as a mother. Lastly I will share how a YouTube Video led to even more healing between my adult and her youngest son.
    17 June 2022, 8:03 pm
  • 44 minutes 43 seconds
    Identifying & Reframing Core Erroneous Beliefs
    In this episode I will identify core erroneous beliefs held by my wounded inner child that have been a source of pain in my adult’s life. I will share how my adult’s therapist helped her to reframe these core erroneous beliefs & taught her how to parent her wounded inner child with firm sensitivity. I will share how this helped my adult to free herself from the prison her inner child created so long ago.
    19 November 2021, 5:08 pm
  • 12 minutes 3 seconds
    Unblocking A Successful Career
    In this episode I will share how my inner child has been blocking me from a successful career for many years. I will share insights & resources that helped my adult parent my inner child. I will share her healing process & results.
    12 October 2021, 1:31 pm
  • 15 minutes 6 seconds
    UNFINISHED
    I will share what had my adult & inner child going in separate directions. I will share a close encounter my adult had with her inner child while using the Emotional Freedom Technique. I will identify roots of her inability to finish another podcast & publish it on time. Most important, I will identify what my adult needs to provide her inner child to reestablish trust, earn her cooperation & unify with her to start & finish her healing podcasts.
    25 April 2021, 6:42 pm
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