The Masks Your Inner Child Wears To Survive

The Masks Your Inner Child Wears To Survive

July 13, 2026 · 1h 6m · Season 9 · Episode 5

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In this episode, Alessandra Charlesworth interviews Silvia Gálvez about the masks our inner child wears to cope with trauma and the impact on our identities and relationships.

S5E09 In this extraordinary episode, I sit down with Silvia Gálvez, Inner Child Healing Expert, Business Strategist, and Founder of Authentic Transformation, for a conversation that changed the way I thought about my relationship with myself and God. Silvia brings twenty years of experience working with addiction, trauma, and abuse, and she shares the profound patterns she’s uncovered in the human psyche, the nervous system, and our spiritual identity. We explore the masks your inner child wears to survive, the identities we adopt to protect ourselves from pain we were never equipped to process. Silvia discovered five distinct masks for each of the six inner child wounds , and the way she explains them is both compassionate and revelatory. As she says so powerfully: “We wear the mask because we don’t want to feel the pain.” This conversation moves through inner child wounds, ancestral trauma like the ancestral exile wound where she expounds on why feeling like people don't like your going to die, the ancestral abandonment wound and why we crave to belong to a tribe and community. She delves into our divine identity, emotional imprints, and the ways these patterns quietly shape…

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