Heal THIS Inner Part for Effortless Success | Gabby Bernstein

25 Apr 2025 · 7 min

Ask about this episode

Ask anything about it. ChatGPT or Claude reads this page and answers with the times it was said.

Connect VO and ask about every podcast you hear, including the moments you saved. Add to ChatGPT · Add to Claude

In short

Podcast Summary: The Daily Motivation

Episode Title

Heal THIS Inner Part for Effortless Success | Gabby Bernstein

Overview In this episode, Lewis Howes welcomes back best-selling author and motivational speaker, Gabby Bernstein. The discussion centers around personal transformation, focusing on Gabby's journey from being an anxiety-driven perfectionist to a more empowered leader of her inner self. The conversation emphasizes the importance of understanding and nurturing the wounded aspects of ourselves for a harmonious and productive life.

Key Themes

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

  • The narratives we create about ourselves impact our identity and actions.
  • Self-reflection and understanding our inner dialogue are crucial for personal growth.

Gabby's Transformative Journey

  • Gabby shares her evolution from living in hyper-vigilance and anxiety to achieving a sense of flow and calm.
  • She discusses her "controller part," a self-aspect that once fueled her success but also generated significant stress and trauma.

The Four-Step Check-In Process

  • Gabby reveals her four-step "check-in process" designed to foster relationships with our wounded inner selves.
  • Steps include:
  • Recognizing Triggers: Identifying when we feel out of alignment.
  • Meeting the Wounded Parts: Understanding the pain behind certain behaviors.
  • Bringing Self Energy: Responding with compassion instead of judgment.
  • Transforming the Relationship: Developing a harmonious partnership with our inner selves.

Key Takeaways

  • Understanding vs. Fighting: Perfectionism and anxiety are protective mechanisms rather than enemies. Healing involves understanding these aspects of ourselves.
  • Continuous Relationship: The need to maintain an ongoing dialogue with our inner parts to prevent falling back into harmful patterns.
  • Self-Energy: Engaging with our wounded parts with compassion leads to clarity and ease, allowing us to navigate life with authenticity.

Conclusion The episode underscores the transformative power of self-awareness and healing. By nurturing our inner selves through understanding and compassion, we can achieve effortless success and a more fulfilling life. Gabby Bernstein’s insights offer listeners practical tools to foster a healthy relationship with their inner world, ultimately leading to better overall well-being.

---

Additional Resources

  • New Book: Gabby Bernstein's "Make Money Easy" for those looking to transform their financial mindset.
  • Greatness Newsletter: Sign up for insights and inspiration delivered directly to your inbox.
  • Podcast Links: Listen to the full episode [here](http://greatness.lnk.to/1760).

Call to Action If you enjoyed this episode, consider subscribing to "The Daily Motivation Show" for more motivational content and personal development insights.

Written by AI. May contain mistakes. Listen to the episode to check what was said.

Hear the part that matters, and keep it.Open this episode in VO. Double tap your headphones to save a moment as you listen.
Get VO free

Transcript

Automatic transcript. May contain errors.

0:00I have a brand new book called Make Money Easy. and if you're looking to create more financial freedom in your life, you want abundance in your life and you want to stop making money hard in your life, but you wanna make it easier, you wanna make it flow, you wanna feel abundant, then make sure to go to makemoneyeasybook.com right now and get yourself a copy. I really think this is gonna help you transform your relationship with money this moment moving forward. We have some big guests and content coming up. Make sure you're following and stay tuned to this episode of The Daily Motivation Show.

0:38Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to The Daily Motivation Show.

0:51If you can create a harmonious relationship from the higher self of you to the wounded itself parts of you, then things are going to start to flow better in your life. Oh, well, yeah. In every area. Well, because think about it like this, like my controller part, I've done so much work with her. You can gender these parts of you. They have no gender. They could have the opposite gender. It doesn't like sort of whatever is intuitive for you. My parts are female. So I have that controller part that you knew for so long or the anxiety part, right? Even to think about where we were maybe 10 years ago in these conversations to where I am with you right now and how much more self-energy you feel in this moment.

1:29It's going to make me cry. It means so much to me that you've been there with me. It's been like, what, 13, 14 years? 14 years. 15 years maybe since I've met you. 2008, I met you. And when you first met me, I was like parts on fire, right? Like literally on fire. I was a workaholic. Both of us, yeah. Really extreme. Really extreme. I was sober, but like workaholism. I was just extreme anxiety. Didn't know that I had trauma, so I was living in hypervigilance. I was so scared all the time. I was so controlling. It was just like I was doing, you can still be going through hard things and do beautiful things in the world.

2:02Yeah, you still get results in life. Yeah, and do good. But you might be having a lot of struggle, right? And so as a result of this model and what I'm going to teach everybody today and living this and developing this and practicing this and every day being, checking in with these parts of me, checking in with these parts of me, I've unburdened them. And so it's not that they go away, it's that they're not extreme anymore. Interesting. So the parts that were wounded are still inside of you. They're no longer wounded. You feel them. They're in their beautifully developed chrysalis. They're new, for instance.

2:38The part of me that was a controller, I mean, that part did good things, right? She wrote 10 books in 14 years, right? Took action, got things done. Yes. But now she can be in the flow, right? Like now she can be like, I don't have to force my way to get this thing to there. I'm like, oh, you know what, Louis? I'm going to be in LA. Does that work? I'll be there. I can show up with an energy. She's on top, but she's trusting. She's not forcing. Not forcing anything. She's just relaxed in the presence. So it's still like, so it's like a really great quality to have that control part present because she gets things done, but without craziness, right?

3:18Yeah, right, right. Right. Chaos. So these parts of us that once controlled us or hurt us to try to protect us because they all had an intention to serve us, but they didn't help the self really at our highest self. They're blocking self. They're blocking self, but they're an attempt to try to protect us. Totally. These parts of us, when we can have a relationship, a harmonious relationship with them through healing and mending those wounds, then we can use them for good. That's correct. Yeah. You're so great at like digesting and bringing it back. Yeah, it's beautiful. That self right there in action, clarity.

3:55Clarity is one of those qualities of self. So you have such a good job of listening, thinking, pulling it together and bringing it back. And it sounds like we could, you know, by doing this self-help work and by following this four-step process that we're to cover in a second and just going through the book, it sounds like when we can start to have a different relationship with these parts of us that have caused us pain and suffering, but also try to protect us. if we can start to have a new relationship by mending those relationships, it can get a lot better. But it doesn't mean those things can come back at some point if we don't keep having a relationship with them in a healthy way.

4:29So you might be six months, I feel better, but then something triggers you and you go back to the wounded part of you that says, I don't feel safe. You need to control this. You need to protect this. You need to be a perfectionist in this moment, whatever it is, hypervigilance. And so it's a constant relationship and a conversation of checking in sounds like it's called the check-in process okay all right here we go and i like that because everybody has a few minutes to check in right or a few seconds to check in throughout the day and the simplicity of it being this four steps of checking in with the part makes it such that you can have this relationship to the part rather than why are you doing this?

5:12It's with why the pain, right? That's like what Gabor Manta always says, like not why the addiction, why the pain. And so by every moment when you notice a trigger or you have this space in your body to like see, oh, you know, I'm out of alignment right now. In those moments checking in are these these moment to moment experiences of presence with bringing self to these parts.

6:02the School of Greatness. And if you are loving the daily motivation, please follow us over on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leave us a review over on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want more exclusive content and ad-free listening experience, make sure to subscribe to our Greatness Plus channel on Apple Podcasts right now. And if you want to get even more inspiration from our world-class guests and learn how to improve your life and take it to the next level, then make sure to sign up for the Greatness newsletter and get it delivered right to your inbox over at greatness.com slash newsletter.

6:37Again, have an amazing day and I'll see you tomorrow with another episode of the Daily Motivation Show.

From the publisher

Order my newest book Make Money Easy! https://lewishowes.com/moneyyou

Check out the full episode: greatness.lnk.to/1760

"I've unburdened these parts of me. It's not that they go away - they're not extreme anymore. They're in their beautifully developed chrysalis." - Gabby Bernstein

Gabby Bernstein returns to share her transformative journey from anxiety-driven perfectionist to empowered leader of her inner world. In this deeply personal conversation, she reveals how her "controller part" once fueled her success but at a tremendous cost - living in hyper-vigilance, constant fear, and extreme anxiety while unknowingly carrying unhealed trauma. Through her revolutionary four-step "check-in process," Gabby demonstrates how we can identify and develop harmonious relationships with the wounded aspects of ourselves that unconsciously drive our behaviors.

Drawing on over a decade of personal growth (having written 10 books in 14 years), Gabby illuminates the possibility of maintaining productivity without chaos. She explains how our protective mechanisms - perfectionism, control, anxiety - aren't enemies to vanquish but parts of ourselves seeking understanding. By bringing our "self energy" to these wounded aspects rather than fighting against them, we discover they can transform from sources of suffering into allies that help us flow through life with greater ease, clarity and authentic power.

Sign up for the Greatness newsletter: http://www.greatness.com/newsletter


Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

More from The Daily Motivation

All 1,249 episodes
Heal THIS Inner Part for Effortless SuccessThe Daily Motivation · 7 min
Listen in VO