{"id":31404,"date":"2025-07-10T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31404"},"modified":"2025-07-10T09:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T09:26:04","slug":"psych-101-what-is-reparenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=31404","title":{"rendered":"Psych 101: What Is \u2018Reparenting?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Laura Wells, 54, a fitness coach in Fort Worth, Texas, felt silly when she first tried giving herself a hug.<\/p>\n

Then, she realized, \u201cit really helps.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the ways that she is attempting to \u201creparent\u201d herself \u2014 by meeting emotional needs that she says were neglected during her childhood.<\/p>\n

The idea of reparenting has been around for decades, but the practice has flourished in recent years as interest in trauma-informed therapy<\/a> has soared. It is now the subject of books, podcasts and TikTok hashtags<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In reparenting<\/a>, the patient is empowered to find their hurt \u201cinner child\u201d and help it feel loved so that they can develop a stronger sense of self and better relationships with others. It\u2019s not an easy process.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m always telling people, reparenting your inner child is messy and uncomfortable and awkward,\u201d said Nicole Johnson, a licensed professional counselor in Boise, Idaho and the author of a new book on the topic.<\/p>\n

But when her clients acknowledge their pain and view it through the lens of their younger selves, she said, they tend to have more self-compassion and gradually drop the coping mechanisms from their childhood that are no longer helpful.<\/p>\n

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Laura Wells, 54, a fitness coach in Fort Worth, Texas, felt silly when she first tried giving herself a hug.Then, she realized, \u201cit really helps.\u201dIt\u2019s one of the ways that she is attempting to \u201creparent\u201d herself \u2014 by meeting emotional needs that she says were neglected during her childhood.The idea of reparenting has been around for decades, but the practice has flourished in recent years as interest in trauma-informed therapy has soared. It is now the subject of books, podcasts and TikTok hashtags.In reparenting, the patient is empowered to find their hurt \u201cinner child\u201d and help it feel loved so that they can develop a stronger sense of self and better relationships with others. It\u2019s not an easy process.\u201cI\u2019m always telling people, reparenting your inner child is messy and uncomfortable and awkward,\u201d said Nicole Johnson, a licensed professional counselor in Boise, Idaho and the author of a new book on the topic.But when her clients acknowledge their pain and view it through the lens of their younger selves, she said, they tend to have more self-compassion and gradually drop the coping mechanisms from their childhood that are no longer helpful.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31406,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31407,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31404\/revisions\/31407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}