The Hidden Conversation Within: From “Is It Safe?” to Inner Freedom
About this episode
Christine shares her journey of healing from childhood trauma and the quest for emotional safety.
What if the part of you that hurts the most is also the part of you that knows the way home? In this powerful conversation on LOA Today, Christine shares how growing up with a brilliant physician father and an alcoholic mother launched a lifelong quest to answer one haunting inner question: “I need a doctor. I need somebody to help me. I need some help. I need somebody to fix me.” As a child, she had access to medical excellence , but not to the emotional safety she desperately needed. The family looked solid on the outside -success, status, financial comfort but, as Christine put it, “We had an interesting shell of a life, there was a lot missing on the inside.” There were no emotional conversations, only trauma, distance, and a deep, unspoken loneliness. That gap pushed her into a lifelong search: How do we heal? Christine devoured psychology books as a teen, explored countless modalities - psychology, plant medicine, reflexology, bodywork and eventually earned a master’s in Counseling Psychology. But the real turning point came when she faced the grief she had buried for decades: “It took me into my 40s before I could really acknowledge it and feel the grief and feel the child…
People in this episode
Host: Walt Thiessen
Guest: Christine
Topics covered
- inner healing
- emotional safety
- wounded healer
- psychology
- grief
- childhood trauma
Keywords
- healing
- emotional trauma
- psychology
- grief
- inner child
- self-improvement
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: LOA Today
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