Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins continue their discussion on healing the wounded inner child in this new podcast. Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, opens this episode by asking our guests to share their experiences with their inner child while working in social justice. Social justice work is important to our future, but it also create spaces where we are trying to create change without healing. Cyndi found herself exhausted in the social justice movement after she realized how much work she had put in and it still didn’t feel like a lot of change. This exhaustion and frustration can lead to us acting as wounded children in our everyday work. Cyndi shares how she felt the most love and success when she was able to enter spaces with a healed inner child. In the second segment of this episode Cyndi and Hank explore the internal pain many of us have from our childhoods. If we do not learn to identify and accept our internal pain we cannot help heal this world. Hank and Cyndi have both found that identifying their childhood triggers has helped them heal their wounded inner child. Their end goal was to understand their feelings to find better reactions that worked for them and the important people in their lives.

Show Notes:

• 1:35 Healing Our Wounded Inner Child In Social Work
• 8:21 Inner Child Versus Inner Teen
• 14:49 Addressing Your Internal Pain
• 19:37 Identifying Triggers and Accepting Your Feelings
• 24:08 Outro With Martin Friedman

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Our Chief Operations Officer, Dustin Washington, leads our new podcast on healing our wounded inner child. He is joined by Hank Azaria and Cyndi Carnaghi-Collins to discuss their journey in healing their inner child, and how they created a new mind that works for them. The wounded inner child is an unhealed part of us that was formed by our survival strategies that help us ignore our trauma. Hank and Cyndi begin this episode with their definitions of the inner child, and what healing tools have helped them in their journey. Hank believes that no trauma outweighs the other, and that we are all walking around with a wounded inner child as a result from our socialization. Cyndi describes the inner child as a piece of her that she never got to fully express. She goes on to explain how our childhood experiences can cause us to form habits as adults. Cyndi had to look deeply inside of herself to find the cause of her anxiety, and she found that her instability during her childhood was the root. Dustin asks Hank to share his thoughts on the dysfunctions and costs the wounded inner child has on us as adults. Hank has found that a lot of the roles and survival strategies we form do not fully serve us. Hank found himself self medicating and forming a persona at a young age to cope with the dysfunction he was experiencing at home. These survival strategies served him well as an actor, but they did not serve him well when building important relationships in adulthood. This episode closes out with Hank and Cyndi discussing how they identify and react to their childhood triggers. We all are walking around as adults with childhood trauma that can be triggered at any moment. Cindy and Hank remind us that we are not our reactions. Healing our wounded inner child is a process that will take time to achieve and understand.

Show Notes:

• 1:36 Hank and Cyndi Introduction
• 2:34 What Is The Inner Child?
• 15:18 How Our Childhoods Shape Us As Adults
• 23:28 The Cost Of A Wounded Inner Child
• 32:12 The Inner Child Creating Workaholics
• 35:11 Identifying Childhood Triggers
• 43:20 Reacting To Childhood Triggers As Adults

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Anuar Velazquez and Jerry Elster sat down with our host, Martin Friedman, to share their thoughts on restorative justice in the American prison system. Anuar is a former police officer and Jerry was formerly incarcerated. Jerry begins by sharing that restorative justice started within himself and progressed into building, maintaining, establishing, and mending relationships. Jerry realized that he brought harm to his community when he committed his crime, and that was a relationship he needed to mend to heal. Anuar also thinks relationships are crucial to restore justice in America’s criminal justice system. When Anuar was a police officer he felt like he was participating in restorative justice the most when he was building relationships in the communities he grew up in. The three men go on to discuss how restorative justice is reconnecting with humanity. We are socialized to believe that our titles are more important than our vulnerability and honesty. Jerry shares how he judged everyone in the justice system by their title and this caused him to realize he didn’t have the ability to see the humanity in others. To build and maintain relationships within our communities we must learn to look beyond labels, titles, and identities.

Show Notes

• 2:14 Jerry Elster shares his experience in the criminal justice system
• 5:19 Jerry shares how looking within himself changed his view on restorative justice
• 8:37 Anuar talks about his relationship with restorative justice as a former police officer
• 11:19 Martin shares his thoughts on restorative justice as a racial equity worker
• 15:08 Jerry reacts to Anuar and Martin’s definitions of restorative justice
• 17:50 Anuar talks about how restorative justice also restores humanity
• 19:12 Martin asks Anuar and Jerry to share how to be accountable when restoring justice
• 29:44 Martin talks about how society has to take accountability in restorative justice
• 33:35 Jerry talks about taking accountability in patriarchy
• 37:30 Anuar explores how accountability can be weaponized in restorative justice
• 41:19 Martin and Anuar explore how we shape our own reality
• 42:39 Jerry talks about how we avoid responsibility in restorative justice work
• 46:29 Anuar explains how we can all find a place of connection

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