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Adult Children In Recovery - Moving From Insanity To Serenity
Hosted by Vandana Atara · EN
Growing Up With Insanity & Choosing Serenity As Your "New Normal" Reality
Adult Children In Recovery is a podcast that serves to empower, inspire & provide practical solutions to anyone struggling as a result of complex and repeated early childhood stress, abuse & trauma.
As a survivor of emotionally unhealthy, unsafe & wounded adult child parenting, I know how important it is to heal and recover with compassionate self-care practices from childhood trauma. I'm here to remind you none of the stress, confusion, abuse or neglect was your fault but were passed onto you.
Each episode features inspiring stories & guidance from speakers, therapists, coaches, teachers & authors who have not only survived childhood trauma, but who share powerful yet gentle tools & techniques to help you learn how to navigate your feelings, trust your intuition & become your own loving parent.
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Vandana Atara Aura
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From Survival to Safety ft. Phyllis Leavitt | Childhood Trauma, America & the Path to Healing
6d ago00:54:29Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailWhat if the chaos we see in the world is simply the unhealed wounds of childhood — scaled up?In this soul-stirring episode of the Adult-Children in Recovery Podcast, Vandana Atara Noorah welcomes back Phyllis Leavitt — author of America in Therapy, speaker, and psychotherapist — for a conversation that moves from the deeply personal to the profoundly global.Phyllis reveals:How writing saved her during a chaotic, dysfunctional childhood — and how it became her path to healingWhy she believes we are at a precarious moment in human history that demands big ideas and bigger solutionsThe little-known psychological secrets behind how we arrived at this cultural precipice — and what keeps us hereWhy the same therapeutic tools that heal individuals and families can heal communities, corporations, governments, and nationsHow universal loving kindness and compassion in community — free from shame and self-blame — is not naïve idealism but practical healing strategyVandana also shares how her Inner Child Reiki Practitioner Program supports adult-children in doing this exact work — building safety from the inside out.This is an episode about HOPE — real, grounded, hard-won hope.ABOUT PHYLLIS LEAVITTPhyllis Leavitt is a psychotherapist with decades of clinical experience and the author of America in Therapy. Her work sits at the intersection of individual trauma healing and collective wellbeing. Learn more and pick up your copy at: https://phyllisleavitt.com INNER CHILD REIKI PRACTITIONER PROGRAMReady to go deeper? Explore Vandana's signature program at: https://vandanalighthealing.com/products/inner-child-reiki-practitioner-programIf this episode moved you, please leave a 5-star review on your podcast platform. Your review helps more adult-children in recovery find this work. Thank you, Beloved.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Inner Child Healing Meditation for Trauma Recovery, Nervous System Reset & Self-Love
May 2501:21:31Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailIf you grew up feeling unseen, emotionally unsafe, blamed, abandoned, or trapped in survival mode, this powerful inner child healing transmission is designed to help you reconnect with the wounded parts of yourself that still long to feel safe, loved, nurtured, and accepted.In this deeply restorative guided healing experience, Vandana Atara Noorah leads listeners through a multidimensional inner child meditation focused on nervous system healing, emotional release, trauma recovery, self-love, re-parenting, ancestral healing, chakra balancing, and energetic restoration.This episode explores:• Inner child healing for survivors of childhood trauma• Releasing shame, guilt, fear, grief, and emotional overwhelm• Nervous system regulation and emotional safety• Healing abandonment wounds and people-pleasing patterns• Reclaiming self-worth, voice, boundaries, and personal power• Trauma-informed guided meditation and energy healing• Ancestral trauma release and generational healing• Chakra cleansing and emotional detoxification• Re-parenting your inner child with compassion and love• Spiritual healing, soul retrieval, and emotional transformationThis healing transmission supports empaths, cycle breakers, highly sensitive souls, survivors of narcissistic parenting, and anyone seeking deeper emotional healing, nervous system regulation, and spiritual awakening.You are not broken. Your inner child deserves love, safety, tenderness, and healing.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Break The Spell Of Scapegoat Shame
May 1600:44:36Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailGreetings adult-children,It was an honor to sit in a deep & meaningful conversation with my colleague & therapist Tricia Giambelluca in this episode about how to break the spell of scapegoat shame & feeling like an imposter in your romantic, work and platonic relationships.We unpacked alot of misinformation about how these trauma loops get passed down to us yet we have the power to release, unpack and transform them without the need to blame and shame ourselves.About Tricia:Tricia is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who brings over two decades of dedicated experience to her practice at Mobile Counseling of New York. She earned her Master of Science degree from Canisius College in 2007 and has since cultivated extensive expertise in treating trauma, substance abuse, autism spectrum disorders, and anxiety disorders. Fluent in both English and Spanish, Tricia serves a diverse range of clients, including children, teens, adults, veterans, and LGBTQ individuals, ensuring culturally responsive care that honors each person's unique background and experiences.At the heart of Tricia's therapeutic approach is her commitment to Eclectic Therapy, which allows her to thoughtfully adapt treatment to each client's individual needs and goals. Her comprehensive toolkit includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), play therapy, family systems therapy, and mindfulness practices, among many others. Whether working with couples navigating relationship challenges or supporting young people through developmental transitions, Tricia meets clients exactly where they are, creating a foundation for meaningful growth and healing.Tricia finds profound fulfillment in witnessing her clients' transformative journeys, describing it as the most rewarding aspect of her work to watch individuals blossom and develop into someone they never dreamed they could be. When not in session, Tricia enjoys reading, creating diamond art, and kayaking.Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1082934Mobile Counseling of NY:https://www.mcnys.comTricia's Page: https://www.mcnys.com/clinicians/tricia-giambellucaAs always, I'm offering inner child mentoring sessions & discovery sessions on my website at https://vandanalighthealing.comThe first step to healing recovery is to come out of denial and hiding and not let the past define you.Thank you for listening and see you in the next adult-child podcast episode!Bless you & your inner children,Vandana Atara NoorahSupport the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Healing Ancestral Trauma & Reclaiming Your Inner Child | My Journey from Survival to Healing
Apr 2100:49:02Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailIn this episode of the Spiritual Warrior Coach Podcast, I sit down with Barbara Saven to share my journey of healing childhood trauma, breaking generational patterns, and reconnecting with my inner voice.I speak openly about growing up in a dysfunctional home, experiencing emotional neglect, and how those early experiences shaped my relationships and kept me in survival mode for years.But this is also a story of transformation.Through deep inner work, spiritual practice, and energy healing, I was able to: Reparent my inner child Release ancestral trauma stored in my body Regulate my nervous system Step into my purpose as a healer In this episode, we explore: ✨ How childhood trauma follows us into adulthood ✨ Why we stay stuck in fear, codependency, and survival patterns ✨ How to begin healing emotional wounds safely ✨ The connection between ancestral trauma and your life today ✨ How to trust your intuition and reconnect with your higher selfYour healing journey is possible.Your past does not define you.And you have the power to become the cycle breaker for your lineage.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Gaslighting Your Inner Children
Apr 100:46:39Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailGreetings Adult Child,In this latest episode, I sat down with my friend & mentor Leslie about the danger of gaslighting & emotionally invalidating your feelings. As survivors of childhood stress, neglect & trauma, most of us are taught to never speak our truth or trust our feelings which often lead to physical, mental & emotional suffering. This way of living locks us up in an endless looping system of self-abuse vs self-acceptance.If you can relate, this conversation may help you remember that in every moment, your feelings are subject to change and as long as you speak clearly, kindly & compassionately with others & with yourself, you no longer need to seek approval or external validation from others, get gaslit by others and mostly gaslight and lie to ourselves. About my guest:Leslie Lindsey Davis is a bestselling author, popular speaker, and creator of the Emotional Honesty Framework. She helps people recognize and trust their emotions—especially when they’ve spent years being told what they feel is wrong. Her work focuses on the connection between emotional invalidation and the habits we develop to cope, including patterns like emotional eating, self-doubt, and staying silent when something doesn’t feel right.Leslie is also the author of several books, including You Can’t Eat Love and her newest release,Your Shirt Was Always Pink, which explores how we learn to question our own emotional truth—and how to begin trusting it again.Through her writing, speaking, and workshops, she helps people understand what they’re actually feeling, where it comes from, and how good it feels when you allow your voice to be heard, seen, and witnessed.To begin the process of trusting, owning & honoring your feelings, visit her website at https://leslielindseydavis.com/leslie-lindsey-davis--emotional-healing-honest-conversations-and-seSupport the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Healing with Galactic Surgeons
Jan 1701:11:10Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailJoin Loren Gaye on Quantum Conversations for a profound transmission featuring me, Vandana Atara, your guide to galactic healing and inner mastery. Together, we explore self-regulation tools for empaths, unveil my bundle of five transformative programs, and lead you through a live etheric spirit surgery meditation to reclaim wholeness amid global chaos.Tune in as I share heart-centered practices to check in with your organs, regulate your nervous system, and dissolve chakra blocks from womb trauma to spine alignment. Discover how to channel your 5D spirit doctor team from Sirius and Arcturus for cord-clearing, soul fragment retrieval, and quantum upgrades that heal medical fears and awaken your innate healer. This episode empowers the wounded divine feminine, healers, and sensitives to rise above fear through love and community.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →Embodiment, Remembrance & Soul Healing
Dec 3101:26:13Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailIn this heart-centered and expansive conversation, I open up about my path of awakening and the work I’m devoted to—supporting deep remembrance, embodiment, and soul-level healing.We explore what it truly means to come home to yourself beyond conditioning, trauma, and inherited identities. I share how healing becomes sustainable when we shift out of the mind and back into the body, into present-moment awareness, where real transformation happens. At the core of this dialogue is remembrance—remembering who you are beneath the layers, and why this is a foundational part of the human experience.This episode is for anyone navigating a spiritual path, moving through personal healing, or feeling the inner call to reconnect with their true essence.If you’d like to be a guest on the Shaman Stories Podcast, reach out here:📩 shamanstoriespodcast@gmail.comIf you’d like to work with him directly:🌐 www.pnwshamanichealing.comSupport the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →From Childhood Trauma to Empowered Author
Dec 1900:44:49Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailDear adult child, I hope you enjoy my recent conversation with the author of the best selling book "My Pretty Baby" Wendy Correa.My Pretty Baby is a transformative memoir that chronicles Wendy Correa’s journey to heal from childhood traumas, including the death of her father when she was seven, emotionally distant older siblings, a frequently neglectful mother, and an adventurous yet violent, alcoholic stepfather. It is a story of not belonging, and the eventual healing that comes from building a chosen family.After escaping her turbulent home life, Wendy’s path of self-discovery takes her through Buddhism, meditation, plant medicine, yoga, nature, Native American spirituality, 12-Step programs, and psychotherapy. Native American sweat lodge and vision quest ceremonies further strengthen her sobriety and mental well-being.We also spoke about her life in the music industry and the life changing moment that changed how she saw herself after meeting Joni Mitchell and how she was able to turn her life around and seek the help she needed by choosing to live differently than her family.I hope this episode inspires you to do the inner work and take your life back!If you'd like to get in touch with Wendy, you can visit her website at www.wendybcorrea.com & visit amazon to pick up your copy here:https://a.co/d/5rs45t8To schedule a free discovery consultation with Vandana to reparent your inner child, visit my website at https://vandanalighthealing.com and book a discovery session here: https://calendly.com/vandanalighthealingIf you found this episode helpful, please like, subscribe & leave a positive review on my adult-child in recovery podcast and on all the platforms that host us!Blessings,VandanaSupport the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →How Re-Parenting Your Five-Year-Old Inner Child Breaks Generational Trauma Patterns
Dec 600:22:10Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailIn this episode of Healing Mindset, I had the opportunity to sit down with Nazish and take a deep dive into one of the most mission-critical conversations of our time: re-parenting the five-year-old inner child. This is the age where so many of our emotional blueprints take shape—our early coding around love, safety, belonging, expression, and visibility.I unpack how emotional imprints are formed not just in childhood, but as early as the womb. These imprints quietly drive adult behaviors—jealousy, anxiety, people-pleasing, overachieving, emotional shutdowns—and most of the time, they’re not “adult issues” at all. They’re the unspoken needs of a silenced inner child asking to be seen, held, and led.During this conversation, I share practical, energetically aligned ways to recognize your inner child’s signals and how to respond without re-opening old wounds. Re-parenting isn’t about fault-finding—it’s about stepping into emotional leadership. It’s about becoming the deeply present, regulated, and compassionate parent your five-year-old self needed so you no longer outsource your worth to relationships, family dynamics, or performance.If you feel blocked, disconnected from joy, or stuck replaying the same relationship patterns, this dialogue gives you grounded frameworks you can deploy across your life—work, love, family, and self-worth. You’ll walk away with a forward-looking roadmap for nervous system safety, trauma repair, and authentic self-connection that enables not just personal healing but generational transformation.About Me:I’m an intuitive empath, healer, and spiritual teacher dedicated to supporting “adult children” who never had the chance to fully recover from early emotional injuries. My work centers on inner child healing, generational trauma release, and energetic re-patterning.Through live transmissions, energy work, and guided inner journeys, I help individuals reconnect with their five-year-old self, reclaim their creativity, and build the internal safety they’ve long been missing. My core philosophy is simple: when you become the emotionally available parent you never had, everything in your life recalibrates—your relationships, your health, your leadership, and your joy.Key Takeaways:Inner child wounds are not trendy language—they are the foundational drivers behind recurring patterns in relationships, work, and self-worth.Your inner child speaks through triggers, shutdowns, and “childlike” emotional reactions. These are insights, not weaknesses.Re-parenting is an act of radical ownership—stepping into the role of your most emotionally present caregiver.Core emotional templates can begin forming in the womb. A mother’s internal world often becomes the child’s first nervous system environment.Healing doesn’t require reliving trauma. Energy work, guided journeys, and somatic techniques can shift patterns without re-traumatizing you.Many high-functioning adults are disconnected from joy. Reconnecting with your five-year-old self reignites play, creativity, and life force.Inner child healing is generational risk mitigation—unaddressed wounds ripple through families, relationships, and even professional environments.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
Transcribe →How Inner Child Healing Can Break Generational Trauma | Break Generational Trauma
Oct 1900:58:58Tap to summarizeSend us Fan MailIn this deeply personal episode, I open up about my journey as an Inner Child Healer—and how I help people recognize and mend the emotional wounds that often begin in childhood but quietly shape our adult lives.I’ve learned that when pain isn’t healed, the wounded child within us grows into a hurting adult—and sometimes, without realizing it, we project that pain onto others, continuing patterns of generational trauma.In this conversation, I share: • How unhealed childhood wounds show up in our behavior and relationships • Why denial can keep us stuck in unspoken pain • The role of a safe, nurturing home in emotional healing • How awareness and compassion can break generational cycles • Simple steps you can take to start reconnecting with your inner child todayMy message is simple yet profound: Healing yourself isn’t selfish—it’s how we stop passing pain forward.Join me in this episode to understand your inner child, heal your past, and begin creating a kinder, more conscious future. You can also connect with me on Instagram for healing sessions and daily reflections.Support the showStay Connected with Vandana Light Healing :✨ Website: vandanalighthealing.com YouTube: @VandanaLightHealing Facebook: VandanaLightHealing Podcast: Hope & Healing LinkedIn: Vandana Atara Noorah Instagram: @vandana_light_healing Amazon Author: Vandana Atara Noorah
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