Welcome to Healing From Within. Your host Sheryl Glick (http://sherylglick.com) author of The
Living Spirit Answers for Healing and Infinite Love a tale of spiritual
awakening healing energies miracles and ways to find your inner self
which is worthy of love and holds infinite possibilities for success and
is delighted to welcome Barbara Jaffe author of When Will I Be Good
Enough? The book is about helping replacement children understand and
accept their own challenged journeys through Barbara revealing her own
difficult childhood as a replacement child for a brother who had died.
We explore the wounds that all children face when transparency openness
and often love is missing in their family life
Listeners of this show are well aware our guests and I share intimate
stories which offer a view of the Universal Laws of Energy which when
understood and utilized help us merge our spiritual and physical lives
to create beautiful fulfilling lives of joy and happiness despite the
hardships of our childhood traumas and wounds. Sheryl as an intuitive
healer/medium has shared so many sorrows and suffering due to the loss
of a child for her clients, but has never discussed the topic of a
replacement child. All parents feel sad and traumatized by the loss of
the child and their own feelings of failure. Their hopes for healing
their marriages and family with the addition of another child are
already compromised as only love brings love, and fear brings fear.
Until we understand the Law of Attraction and the dynamics of energy we
are at a loss to conquer the lower vibrations and emotions that cause so
much damage.
In today’s episode of “Healing From Within” Barbara Jaffe who is an
English professor and current Fellow in UCLA’s Department of Education
and was honored as Outstanding Woman of the Year and Distinguished
Teacher of the Year will share her journey and difficulties as a
replacement child many of whom are often thought of as “less than” by
comparison to the lost child. We will hopefully remind ourselves how
important it is to embrace and love each child just as they are without
comparison or expectations, but simply to nurture and help them develop
confidence and self-esteem to guide them through challenges by feeling
the complete support of their parents family and others.
Barbara gives the definition of a replacement child and the implications
of her own experiences as a replacement child. The traditional
definition of a replacement child is a child born after the death of
another child in the family. The new baby was intentionally conceived to
replace the child that was lost. Often the family had not anticipated
having another child until this tragic loss. However, the acknowledged
characteristics of a replacement child often lend themselves to other
children whose lives have been affected by an alcoholic, a depressed
parent or emotionally detached parent, or an abusive parent. In other
words most children in one way or another reflect the wounds and
emotional traumas of their parents and ancestors.
Sheryl says…those conditions just mentioned would apply to almost every
family, as there are no perfect people or families, and in our modern
day society so many natural and spiritual approaches to healing and
appreciating life have been replaced by a materialistic minded
technological society which adds to and promotes addictions
psychosomatic emotional and physical illnesses. So what we are talking
about here relates to all families and how they are relating to their
children.
In my book The Living Spirit in regard to this thought I wrote…”After
realizing that my life was the result of my choices as well as the
result of the Divine plan we are born with, I have surrendered many of
my illusionary fears and asked Spirit to direct and guide me towards the
fulfillment of my spiritual purpose. Of course I like others still
