Love & Liberate

Your Inner Child at the Christmas Table: A Survival Guide For The Holidays

Emilie Iris

The holidays are here! And so are the familiar triggers, childhood wounds, and messy family dynamics many of us would prefer to avoid... The bad news is: you can't escape yourself or your family. But the good news is: there are ways to deal wth it!

In this episode, we dive into why this season can feel so intense and how you can stay grounded, kind, and connected to yourself. Emilie shares a personal story of cutting ties with family as well as how she managed to restore connections. She offers both ideas and practical tools to heal past wounding and create healthy and safe relations, inside and outside your own family system.  

What You'll Learn:

  • How to find and restore the connection with your own inner child.
  • How to find more safety in your self, your family and the bigger world around you.
  • How boundaries can be a lifeline.
  • The practice of self-reparenting: why your needs are now your responsibility, not your parents’, partner’s, or framily’s.

What You’ll Hear

  • Why holiday gatherings activate old wounds and emotional patterns.
  • How to distinguish what you feel from what you make it mean, and why that shift gives you power.
  • How family systems shape us long after we leave home & why inner child work matters. 
  • The relevant rise of mental health awareness, chosen family, and “framily” as softer, safer spaces.

Ask yourself: How would you move through the world if you would look at every single person as a part of our one big family?

If something resonated and there's anything you would like to share with Emilie, she loves to hear from you! Get in touch via love@emilieiris.com or find her on Instagram @by.emilieiris.

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