Our Whole Childhood with Patrick Teahan The Feeling of Being “In Trouble”
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Feb 11, 2026 A deep dive into the persistent sense of being “in trouble” that follows childhood trauma. Topics include toxic shame from emotionally immature caregivers, family roles like scapegoating and parentification, and how the body stores emotional flashbacks. The discussion covers survival responses like fawning and shutdown, journal prompts for tracing origins, and tools for reparenting, boundary work, and reclaiming present-day safety.
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Personal Experience With Shaming Parents
- Patrick shares growing up with parents who portrayed normal parenting stress as the children's fault and weaponized shame against them.
- He says that abusive parenting made him feel like a burden and that none of it was true.
Past Conditioning Drives Present Assumptions
- Adults conditioned by childhood shame often assume others are disappointed or angry even when those people are neutral.
- The body responds with a 'it's happening again' alarm that drives checking and hypervigilant behaviors.
Use Journal Prompts To Reparent
- Use journaling prompts to identify and name trauma-related patterns and reparent your inner child with structured questions.
- Patrick offers a workbook compiling resonant prompts to support that reparenting work.