Waiting by the Window | How Child...

Waiting by the Window | How Childhood Wounds Shape Your Adult Relationships and Self-Worth

Unbound and Limitless por Michele Harris
T1 · E5
25 ago 2026
17:39

Notas del episodio

Episode Description: Is your adult people-pleasing, perfectionism, overachieving, or fear of rejection actually an invisible survival mechanism from your past? Michele shares a deeply personal childhood memory that quietly wrote the script for her adult life. Learn how early wounds shape how we love, lead, and live. Discover why high-achievers constantly feel the need to prove their value, and the essential reframe that allows you to start choosing yourself.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

  • The "Window Moment": How a child's subconscious interprets absence and creates invisible scripts that run an adult life.
  • The Overachiever’s Mask: Why perfectionism, people-pleasing, and "handling everything" are often survival strategies.
  • Worth vs. Capacity: A liberating framework to understand why someone’s inability to show up for you is a reflection of their emotional capacity, not your self-worth.
  • Navigating Compounding Grief: How adult losses trigger primal abandonment fears in the nervous system.
  • The URISE Method to Healing: How Michele applied Uncover, Release, Interrupt, Shift, and Embody to heal and free herself.

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Palabras clave

self-abandonment
high-achievers
people-pleasing
emotional healing
confidence
perfectionism
limiting beliefs
personal growth
self-improvement
nervous system