Understanding Your Inner Child

Come join us for a very special Wholehearted Event focused on understanding your childhood experiences, and how those experiences shape how are see the world and yourself today.

All children have basic human needs (love, attatchment, belonging, safety, and acceptance to name a few) and when those needs are met we develop in certain predictable ways and when those needs are not met we also behave in certain predictable ways.

This workshop will help you explore your relationship with yourself as an adult and uncover how your childhood experiences affect you today. Then learn how to shift your perspective so that you can begin to transform your relationship to yourself. This process is a critical step in achieving emotional maturity. In other words, if you understand "why you do what you do", then you can begin to respond to life events instead of reacting to them.

Awareness of your wounds and triggers, will help you regulation your emotions and self-soothe in effectively. This is how we break the chain of multi-generational emotional trauma, and most importantly it will change how you parent children no matter what age they are.

This workshop is being faciliated by renowed childhood development experts Dr. Jennifer Hays-Grudo and Dr. Amanda Sheffield Morris.

ABOUT DR. JENNIFER HAYS-GRUDO:

Jennifer Hays-Grudo, PhD, is a Regents Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Oklahoma State University, as well as the Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Childhood Adversity (CIRCA). She and Amanda Sheffield Morris are the co-authors of the first scholarly book on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), and has an extensive body of research on how negative experiences in childhood lead to negative parenting styles. She has helped countless parents overcome their past traumas and improve their relationships with their children and themselves.

ABOUT DR. AMANDA SHEFFIELD MORRIS:

Amanda Sheffield Morris, PhD, is a Regents Professor of Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Her research focuses on parenting and emotion regulation, with an emphasis on social and emotional development during childhood and adolescence. She researches the origin of emotional trauma, how it is based on to children, and how we can learn to respond to our triggers instead of just react to them. She has authored numerous articles and chapters on child and adolescent development (including the first scholarly book on ACEs, co-authored with Jennifer Hays-Grudo) and feels very blessed to have the opportunity to study children and families every day.

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