59: The Healing Power of Your Dreams with Theresa Cheung, Kelly Sullivan Walden and guests Lisa Campion & Amanda Charles59: The Healing Power of Your Dreams with Theresa Cheung, Kelly Sullivan Walden and guests Lisa Campion & Amanda Charles
UK Health Radio Podcast
Hosts and guests talk about inner child work, dream messages and nervous system calm, focusing on repair, boundaries and compassion for ourselves and our parents. The conversation blends psychology and spirituality while keeping things practical, gentle and often playful.
54:45•14 Nov 2026
Sacred Reparenting, Inner Child Dreams and Learning to Calm Your Triggers
Episode Overview
- Notice nervous system triggers as a sign your inner child has taken over, and use simple tools like breathing, cold water and journalling to settle before responding.
- After reactive episodes, focus on repair – apologise, take responsibility and make amends rather than shaming yourself.
- Decisions about distance from parents are individual; clearer boundaries may be enough unless there is ongoing abuse, serious addiction or danger.
- Inner child work can increase compassion for parents and create more flexible, less black‑and‑white boundaries over time.
- Dreams, memories and recurring life patterns often highlight unmet needs around safety, connection, autonomy, expression, play and limits, pointing to where care is needed now.
“"It's not too late to do inner child work, it's not too late to have a great childhood."”
What are the common struggles and victories in addiction recovery? This conversation on UK Health Radio leans into a different but deeply related theme: how healing your inner child and paying attention to your dreams can shift your emotional life in powerful ways. Host duo Theresa Cheung and Kelly Sullivan Walden keep things warm, funny and slightly mystical, while staying grounded in psychology.
They’re joined by inner child specialist and author of *Sacred Reparenting* Lisa Campion, plus Amanda Charles, "The Psychic Psychologist", with contributions from Dr Amy Robbins and spiritual life coach Phil Webster.
You’ll hear Lisa unpack what actually happens when the “inner child” hijacks your day – those moments of people‑pleasing, perfectionism or fight‑or‑flight when, as she puts it, "anytime your nervous system triggers, you're in your inner child." She shares simple regulation tools like box breathing, cold water on the face, journalling and, crucially, the importance of repair: "What counts is what we do after...
can we step in and repair?" The group talk frankly about setting boundaries with parents, and how to tell the difference between truly unsafe dynamics and understandable hurt from imperfect but loving families. Lisa stresses it’s case by case, yet notes that continued abuse, addiction or danger may require distance. Things stay practical and hopeful.
Amanda outlines six core childhood needs – safety, connection, autonomy, expression, play and boundaries – and shows how dreams, daydreams and recurring life patterns flag which of those needs are still unmet. She and Amy discuss how to stay psychologically grounded while still letting intuitive dream meaning speak.
Perhaps the most reassuring message comes when Lisa says, "it's not too late to have a great childhood", and Amanda reminds everyone that being an adult doesn’t mean your inner child has to stay in the cupboard. If you’re working on recovery, self‑soothing instead of self‑numbing, and trying to be kinder to yourself, this gentle, slightly woo‑woo chat might be exactly what your younger self needs. What would your inner child ask for tonight if you actually listened?
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