VIDEO: No Knight in Shining Armour is coming!

Jan Normanton • October 10, 2023

Rescue yourself – reparent yourself! No Knight in Shining Armour is coming!


This might mean another person, a cup of coffee, chocolate, food whatever our go-to’s have been in the past, whatever our crutches have been to rescue us from those states of being and feeling.


We can do this and feel empowered and potent in choosing differently and doing differently and shifting that physiology from that awful flat state to the feeling of wellbeing, a feeling of self validation and that empowerment, through doing that for ourselves, that’s how we break that cycle of abandoning ourselves and instead relating to ourselves in a beautiful way, in a way that validates us, validates all those inner parts of us from the past.


And they can get to see that we choose differently now, we reparent ourselves, we take ourselves by the hand and take ourselves forwards into a new paradigm, a new way of being, a new way of feeling, thinking, believing and so behaving and acting.

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