EPISODE 084 | Coming Back Home to Yourself by Healing Your Inner Child
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Coming Back Home to Yourself by Healing Your Inner Child
An Introduction to Amie Dean + What We Discuss
Last week on the show, we heard a criminal justice expert and ex cop, Peggy Kingsbury, openly and vulnerably tell a story of her childhood trauma and how that led her to recognize and reckon with how white privilege has played out in her life, in the justice system, and what she’s doing about it.
So today on the show, we’re talking to Amie Dean. She’s a holistic psychotherapist, ascension coach, and is also the founder of One Awakening, a community to help empathic women awaken spiritually through healing their inner child wounds. She travels the country in her van with her husband, but home base is in San Diego, Calif.
In this episode, Amie packs information into every answer she gives us. We cover a ton of ground in what seems like a short amount of time, so you might want to take notes to go back and process the complexities of each topic in more depth after you initially listen.
Pay special attention to the parallels between Amie’s physical life and healing to her spiritual journey. These parallels she demonstrates between going home to her inner self and moving homes or physically going home from the hospital at a time she feared for her life show us how interconnected every aspect of our human existence really is.
From this episode, you’ll walk away knowing:
How to start healing your inner child wounds
How to lead with love in your life and open your heart more even if you’re wounded
Exactly what a spiritual awakening looks and feels like, in all it’s different phases
Ways to deal with the hard emotions, such as grief and fear, that come up during healing and/or awakening
The importance of trusting your gut to make decisions
What specific ego traps are and how to work through them
Scan the Highlights of Amie’s Interview on Human Amplified
Amie Dean embracing her inner child.
Getting to know Amie Dean
What healing inner child wounds look like using inner wisdom
What your inner child is
How your inner child becomes wounded
What your inner child wants
What spiritual awakening is
How inner child woundings create dissonance and disconnect us from our true selves
How Amie’s trauma work is connected to spiritual awakening — “We cannot get to a place of spiritual awakening without first healing the trauma we’ve endured.”
How hitting rock bottom is often the place where trauma begins (“rock bottom” is the equivalent of the term “dark night of the soul.”)
Spiritual awakening happens in it’s own time, but mindfulness practices and working with coaches and therapists can help
Finding a path back to love
The six phases of spiritual awakening
What it means to lead from your heart
Amie details her own spiritual awakening
How being empathic and highly sensitive led to depression and anxiety
Focusing on spiritual growth to heal before becoming a helper
Amie’s first glimpse of spiritual awakening after a traumatic break up
Eckhardt Toll as an influence
Medical trauma - Amie thought she was going to die
Deciding to keep going and seeking help
Amie’s dad, her best friend, passed away
Mindset changes
What phase of spiritual awakening Amie Dean is personally on and the non-linear nature of the phases
We dive deeper into Amie’s slow physical healing that took years and how she approached it, even with chronic pain: “A huge proponent of healing was deciding that I was going to heal.”
Dealing with the emotions, such as grief and fear, that came up during healing
The benefits of sitting with fear
Making big decisions in the face of fear, and specifically how Amie decided to leave the hospital when she was afraid of dying
What ego is
Specific ego traps
Fragmented parts of self as we become different people through our natural human life cycle
Integrating fragmented ego parts and what that looks like
Does every human go through spiritual awakening?
Advice for humans who don’t know they’re in a spiritual awakening
The pervasiveness of trauma
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Credits: Intro and Outro music and episode editing by Ryan Sauls. Episode production and graphics by Brandi Fleck. Sound effects from zapsplat.com. Mid-episode music is “Say You Will” by Shane Ivers at Silverman Sound Studios. Bio and photos provided by Amie Dean.
About the Host
Brandi Fleck is a writer, artist, and recognized communications and interviewing expert. She is also an avid student of human nature who’s overcoming past trauma and is founder of Human Amplified, where she helps people embrace being their true selves so they can expand more fully into their own humanity with fear of being seen and heard. Brandi hosts the top-rated Human Amplified podcast (formerly the On Being Human podcast). READ MORE