III. Re-Sourcing

Re-sourcing is the practice of managing the structure around your emotional CORE. It’s the process of self-parenting. This means:

1. Being a nurturing parent (internal mother) to your Inner Child or CORE

2. Being a protective parent (internalized father) to your Inner Child or CORE

3. Being in Source (Higher Self) to your Inner Mother and Inner Father.

By self-parenting (nurturing, protecting and providing for your Inner Child), you are balancing your sympathetic and para-sympathetic nervous systems. I call this Re-Sourcing.

Re-Sourcing (or Re-parenting) gives your CORE the support it needs. In the diagram to the right, each circle holds the circle inside it.

Many people don’t have a strong internalized mother and father. Why not? We didn’t receive the mothering and the fathering that we needed at key times during our development. Through Re-sourcing, you can become the effective parents that you needed right now.

Rather than focusing on the past and what you didn’t get (which leaves anyone feeling like a powerless and victimized child), you can retrain yourself to be the parent you always wanted. The goal of Source Work isn’t to create a dependency on the therapist. The goal of Source Work is effective Self-Management.

This means balancing and stabilizing your structural body (your spine, neck, back, muscles, tendons and ligaments), your emotional body (described above) and your energy body – polarity, grounding and integrity. A well-managed life is usually mirrored by a balanced and stable energy body.