Highly Sensitive Women: Healing Childhood Wounds - replay
Episode 23 season 5: Biz Cush on Healing Childhood Trauma
Highly sensitive women may feel childhood wounds deeply. In this replay of episode 15, host Elizabeth Cush talks about how your parts help protect you and how you can heal.
“It’s really important to be attuned to your body. Your body is always letting you know your needs—but we’re not always listening.”
Show Notes:
In this heartfelt solo episode of Awaken Your Wise Woman, Elizabeth Cush explores the lasting impact of childhood emotional wounds and how internal family systems (IFS) and parts work can guide healing. Reflecting on her own journey and professional experience, Biz explains how early unmet emotional needs can lead to the development of protective parts—like the inner critic, the people pleaser, the hyper-vigilant watcher, and the perfectionist. These parts helped us survive difficult environments, but they may continue operating in ways that no longer serve us. Through IFS, we learn to meet these parts with compassion, helping them—and ourselves—feel safe, seen, and supported in the present.
Biz also connects emotional wounding to chronic health conditions, emphasizing how nurturing a kinder relationship with our inner parts can ease stress, reduce reactivity, and support overall well-being. She shares simple practices like mindfulness in nature, attending to physical needs, and cultivating self-compassion to help listeners stay grounded and present. Ultimately, she offers an empowering message: healing is possible when we turn inward with love, recognize the wisdom of our parts, and meet ourselves with the care we may not have received as children.
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