GDL Zahra

And there are tools in this book that could help anybody . So if I'm hearing this right , it's like you want to become aware of the bleeding within yourself because once you have the awareness , then it's now you can take care of it definitely consciousness , awareness , acknowledgement and then making basic choices , like nurturing your inner child that needs help because sometimes we could be just really , really , really tired . We just need to take a nap .

GDL Zahra

But we don't , the inner talk is not even close to that because unfortunately , we are not trained how to do that . We've been I as a therapist did not do any inner child healing with my clients because I wasn't aware of it . So when I learned about it , that how almost every adult clients I have is having bleeding issues from childhood .

GDL Zahra

I mean , but you know , it's , it's just human needs and , and , and we need to handle what's going on and really have a community or people , family , friends , professionals to help us to gain the confidence we need so we could help ourselves when the professionals are not around . And honestly , that's all we've been doing some deep breathing , some repenting , some inner child healing , some prayers , meditation , journaling . It's a combination of , it's like a Disneyland .

GDL Zahra

Now I know when I'm hungry , I know when I feel unloved , I know when I'm tired . So you and I and everybody else , the whole purpose is become your own wise , loving parent , take care of your own basic needs and what is a basic need we all have as a human to be seen to be loved , to be understood , not by others by ourselves . First , it comes from us .

GDL Zahra

I mean , I was um and I'm still not 100% yet , but I'm getting better every day . We talked about affirmations and like looking at yourself , like even putting a picture of like a picture of you as a kid in the mirror and talking to that child and just saying , yeah , like I wasn't ok , but I'm gonna get better every day . And I think , you know , switching up my nutrition , like not drinking coffee , going to like some , some macha maybe , um , because I was having some intense panic attacks , like even driving here , even though it brought me , it brings me so much joy to be here , but it was just , I was by myself and I'm in the car and like all the thoughts start just like flooding me .