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What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?

Knowing your inner child’s artist type can be deeply beneficial on several levels, because it reconnects you with the spontaneous, unfiltered part of yourself that first experienced creativity before rules, expectations, or external judgments came in. This 90-second quiz reveals your unique creative blueprint-the way your inner child naturally expresses joy, imagination, and originality. In just a couple of clicks, you’ll uncover the hidden strengths that make you most alive… and learn how to reignite that spark right now.

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The Real Reason Brooklyn Beckham Finally Snapped

40 min ago

Millennial parents are the most informed, most intentional, most emotionally intelligent generation of parents in history. And their kids are more anxious than ever. That's not a coincidence. It's a consequence.

This video reveals how parenting became a redemption project — a way to heal your childhood through your child, why the unspoken contract "I'll give you what I never had and you'll prove I'm not my parents" doesn't work and your child feels its weight, how gentle parenting became a performance of calm while your nervous system screams and kids register the dissonance between your words and your body, and why hypervigilance disguised as attunement is actually a trauma response that transfers anxiety to your children.

✨ Free Quiz: What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?
Discover your unique creative blueprint in 90 seconds.
👉 https://the-vessel.involve.me/what-is-your-inner-childs-artist-type

Chapters:
00:00 — Intro: The Contradiction
00:33 — Section 1: The Redemption Project
01:50 — Section 2: The Performance of Calm
03:42 — Section 3: The Anxiety Transfer
05:27 — Section 4: Trauma as Identity
07:38 — Section 5: The Void Beneath
09:23 — Section 6: The Comparison Machine
10:51 — Section 7: Dropping the Project
12:18 — Section 8: The Permission to Be Human
13:30 — Closing: Letting Them Be Kids

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Millennial Parents Were Set Up to Fail

1 weeks ago

This video reveals why modern parents became emotionally dependent on their children's approval, how we confused respect with fear and eliminated all authority in the process, why children without consistent boundaries experience "structural anxiety" and rates of childhood anxiety increased 20% in the last decade, and how permissive parenting produces the worst long-term outcomes — behavioral problems, struggles with authority, and higher rates of depression.

You'll learn five strategies: stop explaining decisions to young children, let them be mad at you without chasing their approval, use the "broken record" technique when they negotiate, separate connection time from discipline time, and stop apologizing for being a parent. Your child will not thank you in the moment. But one day, when they're 25, they will call and say "I get it now."

✨ Free Quiz: What is Your Inner Child's Artist Type?
Discover your unique creative blueprint in 90 seconds.
👉 https://the-vessel.involve.me/what-is-your-inner-childs-artist-type

Chapters:
00:00 — The Apology Loop
01:37 — Chapter 1: The Friendship Trap
04:24 — Chapter 2: The Respect vs. Love Confusion
06:07 — Chapter 3: The Cost of Being Liked
07:51 — Chapter 4: The Lighthouse (The Solution)
11:10 — Chapter 5: The Long Game
12:07 — Conclusion: The Parent They Need

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