emotions and, 87–88, 125–126

energy work and, 148–149

explained, 56, 125–127

methods for practicing, 136–142

nutrition and, 142–145

physical movement and, 147–148

self-regulation tool kit and, 149–150

sleep and, 146–147

tensions and stress and, 123–124

see also heart consciousness

Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, The (van der Kolk), 96

body-shaming, impact of, 124, 126

boundary setting, body consciousness and, 150–151

Bowlby, John, 20

Braden, Gregg, 173

brain, connection to heart, 171–174

breathing practices, body consciousness and, 135, 141, 194

Caretaker conditioned self, 113, 115

defined, 114

ego consciousness and, 166

self-assessment, 119

Chapman, Dr. Gary, 1–2, 223

“chasers,” abandoned children and, 98

checklists

for authentic needs, 54–55

for emotional safety and security, 33–35

for nervous system, 89–92

for social coherence, 257

childhood

abandonment wounds and conditioned selves, 79, 85, 95–100

author and heart consciousness, 184–191

author’s unmet emotional needs during, 4, 24–26, 37–38, 97, 107–108

checklist for emotional safety and security in, 33–35

co-regulation and, 209–212

ego stories and, 153, 155–158, 160–161

embodied Self and, 48–50

emotional conditioning and, 224–225

hurt inner child, in everyone, 99–106

hurt inner child, observing of, 111–112

hurt inner child, reconnecting with, 106–111

inner child archetype, 113

neurophysiological impact of, 27–28

reparenting inner child, 170

responses to parent’s hypervigilance, 65–67

stress responses in Dominik and Monique’s childhoods, 64–70

trauma and, 17–20

unmet emotional needs and, 22–24, 42

unmet physical needs and, 21–22

childhood emotional neglect (CEN), 23

circadian clock, body consciousness and sleep, 146–147