On this episode, Alwynn and Jackie discuss the difficult road that led them to create the Let Me Be Free Podcast. Please check out the timestamps below to make sure all topics discussed are comfortable for you to listen to.
Also if you haven’t already please join our Facebook page “Let Me Be Free, The Wounded Inner Child” https://www.facebook.com/groups/240176394654962/
Timestamps
{00:00:00} Introduction, Let Me Be Free Podcast
{00:00:37} Trigger Warning
{00:00:58} First Episode Starts
{00:01:15} How the Podcast was born
{00:01:40} Dealing with toddler’s behavior and getting angry
{00:01:35} Self harm- Whacked myself over head with plate (TW)
{00:02:26} Contacted Conscious parenting Facebook group for advice
{00:02:35} Janet Lansbury respectful parenting specialist
{00:03:10} Trying to implement respectful parenting and failing
{00:04:47} Alwynn emailing the Janet Lansbury Podcast
{00:06:25} Dynamic between Alwynn and Jackie
{00:07:00} Janet Lansbury asks Alwynn to come on her podcast
{00:07:50} Why Alwynn set up the Facebook group “Let Me Be Free, The Wounded Inner Child”
{00:10:25} Suicidal thoughts- I don’t know if i can keep going (TW)
{00:10:49} Being very aggressive with my kids
{00:11:10} Afraid to get help incase they would take my kids away
{00:11:56} Suicidal thoughts- If I could have ended my life I would have (TW)
{00:13:10} Trying to get help from everywhere
{00:14:10} Bad enough that you needed a lot of help but not bad enough where you needed a psych ward.
{00:15:30} Suicidal thoughts- Drive car into wall (TW)
{00:17:05} Suppressed childhood memories resurfacing (TW)
{00:19:30} Jackie thinking about taking kids away (TW)
{00:20:20} Child sexual abuse, people with sexual attraction to children (TW)
{00:20:40} Jackie trying to handle everything and post traumatic stress disorder PTSD (TW)
{00:23:05} Jackie's memory of Bobby in car (TW)
{00:24:00} Flinch response (TW)
{00:25:50} Alwynn feeling shame and guilt at Jackie recounting memory (TW)
{00:27:10} Suicidal thoughts- Brings me back to girl who wanted to end her own life (TW)
{00:27:50} Alwynn doing everything she could to get better
{00:31:05} Alwynn knows that kids are proud of her
{00:31:55} So many parents live in the shame and guilt
{00:33:00} So much strength, awareness and compassion for myself
{00:33:40} People can have courage and bravery to heal
{00:34:00} Bobby no longer has flinch response
{00:35:00} Anything we can do to reduce shame so people feel comfortable accessing help
{00:35:20} How we healed
{00:36:19} Focus of podcast -Community -Modalities that worked for us inc. inner child work, Internal family systems (IFS), somatic experience therapy, Craniosacral therapy. -Self Education
{00:38:00} Creating a space of empowerment
{00:38:45} Finding own innate wisdom
{00:40:00} Conduit for people to connect to their own innate power
{00:41:00} Providing practical tips for how to start healing trauma
{00:43:37} Signing out, Episode 1 Let Me Be Free Podcast
Link to Alwynn’s Podcast Episode with Janet Lansbury on her podcast Unruffled
“It Will Get Easier – The Intense Struggles of a Parent with Childhood Trauma”
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ZiXvnOZ7Y6DhyJKb1T8tC?si=qvvf8Z35ScSqTF7g-S-ONA