Healing Your Inner Child Through Creativity with Megan Walsh
Curious how creativity and play can be powerful tools in healing childhood trauma?
In this deeply intimate conversation, therapist Megan Walsh and I dive into understanding our inner child, breaking generational cycles, and embracing imperfection. Through her personal story of discovering music therapy and her professional insights, Megan shares how creative expression can unlock healing in ways traditional therapy sometimes cannot.
Megan is a holistic trauma therapist and coach with expertise in supporting women to process childhood trauma & release people-pleasing, embrace imperfection, calm their bodies & build thriving relationships.
You can follow Megan on Instagram or learn more about her offerings on her website, and don’t forget to subscribe to her podcast, Good Girls Gotta Heal, here!
Topics We Cover in This Episode:
The surprising role creativity plays in processing childhood trauma
How improvisation can be a healing tool for reconnecting with your inner child
Why perfectionism might be blocking your personal growth
The power of giving yourself permission to be imperfect
How play can repair developmental gaps from childhood
The importance of acknowledging and repairing moments of disconnection
Why healing is a spiral journey, not a linear path
How to recognize when you're repeating old patterns and gently redirect yourself
This episode is a raw, compassionate exploration of healing that reminds us that our wounds don't make us broken—they make us resilient, and that the healing journey is a continuous, beautiful practice of self-discovery.
Sign up for Reclaim + Reconnect, A Program for Healing After Trauma. Heal your nervous system, break free from the patterns that are keeping you stuck, and reconnect with the real you so you can reclaim the life you have always deserved.
Resources Mentioned:
Sign up for Reclaim + Reconnect, A Program for Healing After Trauma
Learn more about Megan’s Offerings
Additional Resources:
Follow & Review on Apple Podcasts
Are you following my podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today so you don’t miss any future episodes! Click here to follow on Apple Podcasts
I would also appreciate it if you would leave me a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! I read each of them, and they help me make sure I am providing the content that you love to hear! Plus, you get to pay it forward because it will allow other listeners like you to find the podcast!
