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Apr 2023
48m 46s

Healing Your Inner Child Through Raising...

Rachel Brathen
About this episode
When we have children, we are presented with the unique opportunity to give them everything we needed when we were growing up. It’s an opportunity to reparent ourselves; to heal our own inner child. In today’s episode, this notion has become so apparent in Rachel’s life as she teaches her daughter about the beauty of birth and the pain of death. While prepar ... Show More
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