This episode deals with Reparenting the Inner Child.  While there are many methods and steps in this journey, I begin by gently asking the question, "What are your triggers...?" and asking us to think back to what the Inner Children in us need. 

Thinking back to the stimulants that bring about certain reactions and behaviors in us is just one of many things that can help us pinpoint certain emotions and thought processes that could be stored in our nervous system, belief patterns, and bodies.
 
All children (and honestly humans of any age) deserve affirmation, nurturing facilitation, security, stability, warmth, and love.  When one or more of these things are missing it leaves a gap in that area that allows us to fill it with what we felt we needed at that time in childhood to survive.

Reparenting takes patience and gentleness with ourselves as we go back and give our Inner Child what they need.

This process includes rewriting old and damaging stories, reprogramming old thought patterns, and deconstructing old beliefs about ourselves, life, and others that may be wired into our subconscious affecting our behaviors, habits, thoughts, and choices today.   

This podcast episode is a basic yet gentle beginning to a process that can bring about difficult emotions for some.  So as you listen, if you decide to journal and begin this work, or you have already been on this journey and you are continuing, please be kind with yourself on your healing and liberation journeys. 

In this episode we get into deconstructing toxic faith culture through a Christian lens.
Some topics include:

• Questioning God & Scripture
• Parenting
• Obedience Culture
• Purity Culture
• World Religions             

and more.

Episode resources:

• Decolonizing Traditional Christianity

Jo Luehmann Instagram
https://instagram.com/joluehmann?igshid=h6i8kj183cjo

https://www.ourbibleapp.com/new-blog/jo-luehmann

• Freed Hearts- Nonprofit on a mission to changing the human conversation on love and inclusion and providing safe spaces.  They have a network that reaches out to parents, LQBTQ, educators, therapists, and the church.

https://www.freedhearts.org/

• Dr. Stacey Patton - Nationally recognized child advocate and award winning author and journalist of Spare the Kids: Why Whupping Children Won't Save Black America.

sparethekids.com
https://www.amazon.com/Spare-Kids-Whupping-Children-America/dp/0807061042

• Cindy Wang Brandt- Writer, Speaker, and Podcast host of Parenting Forward. Breaking cycles of authoritarian, fear-based parenting.
  https://cindywangbrandt.com/parenting-forward/ 

• #exposechristianschools

Within this hashtag you may find,
- personal accounts
-dialogue on conversion therapy
-articles on Christian universities and courses
-Christian authoritarianism, politics, and more

Journal Prompts:
1. Does your faith allow room for you to evolve?
2. Does your faith allow space for you to truly be free?
3.Does your faith allow space for your children to be free?
4. Does your faith allow space for your children to be affirmed?
5. Are you going into a worship space where your children or anyone you love cannot be affirmed?

What is White Supremacy exactly? And how can we stop perpetuating oppressive practices in our work spaces, homes, and more.

https://www.dismantlingracism.org/

Article by Tema Okun
https://www.dismantlingracism.org/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture.pdf

In this episode, Felicia covers

• Worship of the Written Word
• Quantity over quality
• Sense of Urgency
• Objectivity
• Power Hoarding

In this episode I share a few resources and tips that assisted in healing my body and mind from workplace stress.  I also share affirmations, a mini-guided imagery practice, and journal prompts. Take whatever you need.
Show notes & resources:
https://thenapministry.wordpress.com/

Journal Prompts:
1. What signals does your body give you when to are tapped out and tired?
2. What behaviors & habits do you display when you are tired, frustrated, and you have had enough?  Where are you?  Who are you around? What time is it?  Is there a pattern you can catch?
3. What thoughts keep coming back when you feel tired? What thought patterns, memories, & stories come to light when you do not feel restored?

BIPOC deserve rest & restoration.  The fast-paced, competitive, production driven, hamster wheel of a matrix can be all consuming, and if we are not intentional, can consume our bodies and more.  What is best for our spiritual, mental, emotional, & physical health?  Here are the first set of practices you can use to shift.  

This podcast is a liberating frequency for shifting paradigms, health, healing, love, fullness, and being whole.