Begin Your Journey
Welcome to your introductory course. This course will give you all the basics of the process. It’s a process that, when practiced consistently, heals fear and limiting beliefs. anger, shame, guilt, aloneness, depression, anxiety, addictive behavior, and relationship problems. It provides you with the skills to take loving care of yourself, share your love with others, and be empowered to take full responsibility for all your own feelings and behavior.
Do you know how to stay centered, open-hearted, and powerful when someone is yelling at you or blaming you?
Do you know how to be immune to criticism, judgment, and rejection?
Do you know how to not lose yourself, wanting to make changes but not follow through, with issues like weight, exercise, lateness, spending, chores, and clutter?
Do you know how to remain reliably loving with yourself and others, regardless of how others are behaving?
Are you tired of reading books, attending workshops, and seminars, trying therapies that do not bring the lasting results you hoped for?
The method is a process that, day by day, moves you toward personal power and the discovery and fulfillment of your passion and purpose. It gives you the tools to create peace and joy every day of your life. It does not matter how big a hole you have dug for yourself personally or in your relationship. The process gives you the tools to dig yourself out. You will notice results immediately as soon as you start practicing the process. It is a process that always works, provided you are practicing consistently.
Let’s start by defining six terms you’ll need to master before using the methodology.
True Authentic Self
Our true, authentic Self is our essence. It’s the part of our soul that exists within our body. It is helpful to imagine the true, authentic Self as a bright and shining child, with the natural light within being an individualized expression of Divine Love. This aspect of ourselves is ageless. It always has been, and it always will be, evolving through our life experiences. Our true, authentic Self contains our unique gifts and talents, our natural wisdom and intuition, our curiosity and sense of wonder, our playfulness and spontaneity, and our ability to love and connect with others. This is an unwounded aspect of the soul. It can never be harmed. It was never toughened by any abuse we suffered. Instead, the true, authentic Self was hidden away. It waits to be retrieved through a healing process. Because of this unbroken part in each of us, healing can occur. Healing is apparent when you have retrieved and deeply know and value this aspect of yourself, who you really are. A child of the unconditional love that is God. This practice leads to reclaiming your true Authentic Self.
When I use the term “inner child”, I am referring to the true, authentic Self. The true, authentic self often communicates with us through our feelings.
It is your infallible inner guidance system. It lets you know, through your feelings, what is good or bad for you, and what is right or wrong for you. The feeling. You may experience, as an adult, that coming naturally from your true, authentic Self are joy, peace, and love, which result from being loving to yourself and others. The true authentic Self also have the natural feelings of sadness and sorry (over people’s inhumanity to each other, for example), lonliness (when you. have no on with whom to share love), heatache and hearbreak (over other’s mean and rejecting behaviors and various kinds of loss), grief (over loss), helplessness (over others choices), outrage (over injustice), as well as fear of real and present danger. The fight or flight response. These core feelings of life need to be attended to and nurtured with deep compassion.
Wounded Ego
Our wounded ego is often a mirror image of one or both of our parents. Even though we may have said, “I’ll never be like that”, our wounded ego may have learned to be just like our parents.
Unlike the true, authentic Self, which is the feeling aspect of us, our wounded ego is a thought aspect of us. It is housed in a part of the lower brain called the amygdala. The amygdala is the seat of our fight-or-flight stress responses and houses false beliefs that often trigger them.
Your wounded ego is the aspect that carries fears, false beliefs, and controlling behavior that results from not getting the love you needed as a child, and from physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse or neglect. While these false beliefs and self-abandoning behaviors cause us pain in our adult lives, they were the only way we could feel safe when we were children. They were our survival mechanisms.
Your wounded ego can be any age in any given moment, depending on how old you were when you learned a particular false belief, addiction, or way to control.
The wounded ego is an aspect of you that may use food, drugs, or alcohol to numb out fear, loneliness, heartbreak over others, and over situations. In addition, the wounded self always fears being rejected and abandoned on one hand, and being engulfed and smothered on the other hand. In other words, the wounded self fears the loss of others and the loss of self because it doesn’t know how to manage rejection without taking it personally or set appropriate limits against engulfment. Through anger, blame, resistance, compliance, or withdrawal, the wounded ego hopes to ward off and control that which it fears. All the parts of the wounded ego need healing, and they can be healed only through compassion, acceptance, truth, and unconditional love.
Most people arrive here because something in them is ready for change. Not the frantic kind of change, but the deep, honest kind that comes from finally listening to yourself.
You may feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, anxious, or exhausted.
You may be repeating patterns you can’t seem to break.
You may sense there’s more to you. W wiser, calmer, truer part. But you can’t fully access it.
You’re not alone. And nothing is wrong with you.
You’re simply hearing the call back to your inner self.
This is where the journey begins.
What This Work Helps You With
If you’ve tried therapy, coaching, journaling, self-help, or mindfulness and still feel:
emotionally overwhelmed
shut down or numb
ruled by anxiety or overthinking
stuck in old patterns
disconnected from your needs
frozen by guilt, fear, or self-judgment
lost in people-pleasing or perfectionism
unsure how to trust yourself
Then you are in the right place.
This work goes beyond understanding your patterns —
it teaches you how to heal the source of them.
Your First Steps
Here’s how to begin your inner practice in a way that feels clear, gentle, and grounded.
1. Read This: What’s Really Going On Inside Us
Start here to understand why you feel the way you feel — and why you’re not broken.
The Inner Practice
(Learn how protective patterns form and how we dissolve them)
2. Get to Know Your Inner Child & Inner Protector
These two parts shape almost everything in your emotional life.
About Me
(Why this work matters and how we reconnect to the parts you’ve had to silence or override)
3. Experience the Work Firsthand
The most powerful way to begin is through a session — not because you need “fixing,” but because it gives you a safe, compassionate space to meet the parts of you that have been waiting for your attention for decades.
Work With Me
(Explore sessions and what they look like)
4. Subscribe to the Newsletter
This is where you’ll receive weekly short teachings, tools, and inner practices you can use right away.
Newsletter
What You Will Learn on This Journey
Over time, you will learn how to:
hear your feelings without fear
stop abandoning yourself emotionally
meet anxiety with compassion instead of panic
calm your nervous system
quiet the inner critic
understand your triggers
release old protective patterns
access your intuition and inner wisdom
become the loving adult inside your own life
This is not about “self-improvement.”
It’s about self-connection.
You already have everything you need.
You haven’t been taught how to access it.
When You’re Ready to Go Deeper
If you feel drawn to begin — whether you’re anxious, curious, hopeful, or uncertain — that’s enough. The inner work begins with the slightest whisper of willingness.
Schedule Your First Session
Or if you want to ask a question first:
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The journey back to yourself doesn’t require force or perfection, only honesty, gentleness, and a willingness to listen inward.
Welcome to Aware Union.
This is where your true self begins to lead.