Here’s the thing - life is tough and it can leave us feeling pretty broken at times. But you don’t have to LIVE broken. Author and speaker, Mattie Jackson, is sitting down with inspiring authors, musicians, and entrepreneurs to uncover how they’re chasing the good in life and why they’re intentionally choosing joy even when life has knocked them down. Through personal stories and humorous encounters, these conversations are like sitting down with life-long friends – friends whose own courage to live joyfully will equip and encourage you to do the same. No matter the hurt you’ve experienced or what unknowns may lie ahead, there IS joy waiting for you - right here, right now. And Mattie is here to help you find it. This is the In-Joy Life Podcast.
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April 11, 2023
11. Re-Meeting the Child in You with Laura Williams, LPC
Do you feel like you’re floundering in the wake of a hard loss? Or are you crushing it, thriving by cultural metrics, and yet don’t feel happy?
Well, we have just the counselor for you! And I do mean licensed professional counselor, writer, and podcaster, Laura Williams.
Laura’s practice specializes in developmental and relational trauma (yes, we will learn what that means here), and her ultimate goal with all her clients and listeners is: “to help you heal the wounds that keep you from yourself.” Heck. Yes.
We talk about the things that most often keep us from freedom as adults, and she offers clinical, spiritual, and incredibly practical strategies to find and begin processing our trauma points.
Some key takeaways from Laura:
- Everyone has trauma; it’s simply “a place of wounding where a need wasn’t met.”
- You have the power to “reparent” yourself through the childhood wounds that limit you as an adult.
- How connecting back with the little kid in you (your “inner child”) can be the most practical and doable way to chase small joys!
- Humor is a critical element of enduring hardship and chasing joy in grief. (LOVE THIS)
The bottom line is: the you God individually and purposefully made you to be has likely gotten masked by a lifetime of experiences, traumatic or not. Laura’s passion is to help you dig up and dust off the best (i.e. most free and most joyful!) parts of yourself that life has covered up.
Because don’t you want to re-meet the little you God has always intended adult you to be?
