Inner Wounded Child - Which Type Of Inner Wounded Child Are You?

The inner wounded child is the emotional blueprint created in the first five years of life — before you had words for what happened to you. In this video, Kenny Weiss explains the two types of wounded child states that drive every repeating pattern in your adult life: the wounded child and the adapted wounded child. Understanding which type you are operating from reveals exactly how your survival persona was built and why your relationships stay chaotic.

The wounded child forms during ages 0-5 when a child cannot cognitively process abandonment, neglect, or shame from caregivers. This emotional flooding creates a shutdown response that persists into adulthood — the blank, numb feeling when stress hits. The adapted wounded child develops between ages 6-17 as the child gains logic and reason, creating two survival positions: the disempowered codependent who people-pleases and collapses, and the falsely empowered codependent who controls, dominates, and rages. Most people bounce between both positions depending on the situation. Kenny Weiss's Worst Day Cycle™ framework maps how these childhood patterns repeat in adult relationships, self-sabotage, and emotional dysregulation.

🔑 KEY MOMENTS:

0:00 — The two types of inner wounded child

0:55 — How the wounded child is created (ages 0-5)

3:01 — Why you go blank and numb under stress

5:30 — The disempowered wounded child explained

6:00 — How parents transfer dissociation into children

10:00 — Why wounded children become victims

14:00 — How empaths become attracted to narcissists

18:02 — The adapted wounded child (ages 6-17)

22:00 — The falsely empowered codependent position

26:00 — Codependence vs. true narcissism

30:00 — How we damage our own boundaries

34:00 — Healing through truth and reality

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👤 ABOUT KENNY WEISS:

Kenny Weiss is a relationship, communication, and childhood trauma recovery specialist. He created the Worst Day Cycle™, Authentic Self Cycle™, and Emotional Authenticity Method™ — three proprietary frameworks that map how childhood emotional wounds create repeating adult patterns, and the step-by-step process to break free. Kenny works with high-functioning, emotionally exhausted adults who have tried therapy, coaching, and self-help but still feel stuck in the same cycles.

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