Maggie Nick, LCSW

When you realize that YOU + YOUR BODY are the great loves of your life 🥹💛 Y’all, for most of my life, I abused my Body. I punished it. I neglected it. I talked shit to my Body AND about my Body. I made my Body feel like such a disappointment. A disgrace. An inconvenience. Less than an afterthought. Coming home to my Body + myself truly began over a decade ago when I was diagnosed with my first autoimmune disorder (Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis). I decided I deserved love without conditions + so did my Body. Reconnecting to my Body + listening + discerning what it was trying to tell me changed my whole damn life. 3 decades of the suffering that is IBS. Headaches + migraines. Chronic Fatigue. A blood sugar rollercoaster from Binge Eating Disorder. Going into Fight/Flight trying to say no. Going into Fight/Flight thinking someone was mad at me. Going into Fight/Flight if I made a mistake. Basically living in Fight/Flight + wondering why I felt so bad all the time 🤕😉💛 Turns out, when I get curious + honor what my Body is telling me, it tells me when it’s not okay 😇 Turns out, when I listen to my Body when it’s a WHISPER + give it what it needs, then it doesn’t need to put me in Collapse Response with a tummyache + nausea + a headache 🤕 Turns out, when my Body stays in Fight/Flight for extended periods of time, I don’t feel so great 🤯 Turns out, when I release my stress + feelings + regulate out of Fight/Flight, my Body is able to digest my food + function properly ☺️ Your Body deserves this level of relentless patience + support + kindness + nurturing. It always did. Try this. Get CURIOUS + FEEL (don’t think!) for sensations in your Body nudging you about what’s going on + what it needs. Take that shit seriously + do something. And enjoy the best damn feeling in the world when your Body rejoices bc you took care of it without making it feel like a burden 💛 What part hits you the hardest? Tell me in comments ⬇️ Follow me for more “Good” Kid Rehab for your Inner Child AND your kids 💛 #maggiewithperspectacles #childhoodtrauma #goodkids #goodkidrehab #relationalshametrauma #relationaltraumarecovery #goodkidrecovery #recoveringgoodkid #bottlingyourfeelings #innerchildhealing

Just because you were made to feel like you were a burden…does not mean you actually were 💛 ##maggiewithperspectacles##goodkid##goodkids##goodkidinrecovery##recoveringgoodkid##goodkidrehab##talentedandgifted##eldestdaughter##goodgirl##goodgirlrehab

For most of my life, I abused my Body. I punished it. I neglected it. I talked shit to my Body AND about my Body. I made my Body feel like such a disappointment. A disgrace. An inconvenience. Less than an afterthought. Coming home to my Body + myself truly began over a decade ago when I was diagnosed with my first autoimmune disorder (Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis). I decided I deserved love without conditions + so did my Body. Reconnecting to my Body + listening + discerning what it was trying to tell me changed my whole damn life. 3 decades of the suffering that is IBS. Headaches + migraines. Chronic Fatigue. A blood sugar rollercoaster from Binge Eating Disorder. Going into Fight/Flight trying to say no. Going into Fight/Flight thinking someone was mad at me. Going into Fight/Flight if I made a mistake. Basically living in Fight/Flight + wondering why I felt so bad all the time 🤕😉💛 Turns out, when I get curious + honor what my Body is telling me, it tells me when it’s not okay 😇 Turns out, when I listen to my Body when it’s a WHISPER + give it what it needs, then it doesn’t need to put me in Collapse Response with a tummyache + nausea + a headache 🤕 Turns out, when my Body stays in Fight/Flight for extended periods of time, I don’t feel so great 🤯 Turns out, when I release my stress + feelings + regulate out of Fight/Flight, my Body is able to digest my food + function properly ☺️ Your Body deserves this level of relentless patience + support + kindness + nurturing. It always did. Try this. Get CURIOUS + FEEL (don’t think!) for sensations in your Body nudging you about what’s going on + what it needs. Take that shit seriously + do something. And enjoy the best damn feeling in the world when your Body rejoices bc you took care of it without making it feel like a burden 💛 YOU + YOUR BODY are the great loves of your life 🥹💛 What part hits you the hardest? Tell me in comments ⬇️ Follow me for more Inner Child Rehab for yourself AND your kids 💛 #maggiewithperspectacles #peoplepleasing #StressRelief #stressmanagement #stresswithperspectacles #recoveringgoodkid #innerchildhealing #camplovable #innerchildrehab #cptsdrehab

I said what I said 💛 this is how you heal your inner child so you can release yourself from the deathgrip of people pleasing 💛 #maggiewithperspectacles #peoplepleasing #innerchildhealing #innerchildrehab #cptsdrehab #goodgirl #goodkid #eldestdaughterrehab #eldestdaughter #creatorsearchinsights

“I love you on your laziest day” 🥹🤯 I mean…damn 💛 But that is EXACTLYYY the way you DESERVE to love yourself 💛 Healing our Inner Child who believes they must achieve + accomplish in order to be worthy of + deserving of love is about putting our Perspectacles on + calling bs on this 💛 Actively loving ourselves as we honor our capacity + bandwidth + freaking rest because we need to 💛 Breaking the cycle of PUNISHING ourselves for “being lazy” by withdrawing + withholding our own love, attention + care from ourselves. And assuming others will too 💛 I’m telling you — NOTHINGGGG feels quite as good as loving the sh!t out of myself (Today Me AND Little Me!) WITHOUT A SINGLE CONDITION 💛 And when it feels hard/impossible to love myself through something — I get curious about that hmm 🤔 I use IFS + I ask that Part of me why it feels so hard to love myself + there’s always a story about how the most lovable version of me in childhood didn’t do those things bc it made others mad and/or disappointed. That Part of me is alwaysss trying to protect me + keep me safe. And watching Today Me love myself through it feels shocking in the BEST kind of way 🥰 Do you know this struggle with feeling like you must earn love by achieving + accomplishing? I hope this helped. Try this + let me know how it goes! Follow me for more “Good” Kid Rehab for your Inner Child AND your kids 💛 #creatorsearchinsights #ifs #internalfamilysystems #childhoodtrauma #innerchildhealing #relationaltrauma #relationalshametrauma #relationaltraumarecovery #maggiewithperspectacles #goodkids #goodkidrehab #goodkidrecovery #recoveringgoodkid #camplovable

My gosh, you deserve better than selflessness + people pleasing + self-neglect as a way of life 💛 Let me help you heal this 💛 Follow for more “Good Girl” Rehab #goodgirl #goodgirlrehab #peoplepleasing #peoplepleaser #peoplepleasingrecovery #maggiewithperspectacles #recoveringgoodgirl #innerchildhealing #camplovable #relationalshametrauma #relationaltrauma #relationaltraumarecovery #innerchildrehab #goodgirltrauma #goodkidrehab #childhoodtrauma