Inner Child Healing

“Inner child work is the process of contacting, understanding, embracing and healing your inner child. Your inner child represents your first original self that entered into this world; it contains your capacity to experience wonder, joy, innocence, sensitivity, and playfulness.”

No matter how big or small, almost all of us experienced some kind of trauma as children. Childhood trauma leaves a child with shame, which means he or she will feel they have to hide their experience and/or emotions in order to survive.
These traumas could vary from having your favorite stuffed toy thrown in the trash, to being abandoned by your best childhood friend, to being physically or emotionally abused by your parents/siblings/others.

These repressed emotions then lead to cycles of self-sabotage in adulthood. We either seek the parenting we missed out in other people and always feel disappointed, rejected, and let down when they can’t fulfill our demands, or we refuse to let anyone close to hurt us that much again.

Inner child work is a form of self-discovery that helps you access the child you once were, along with the experiences and emotions that the child was taught to repress. The general idea of inner child work is that that if you make an effort to contact, listen to and communicate with, and nurture your inner child, you can find and heal the roots of your issues as an adult.

With our inner child healing techniques, you can expect to see the following benefits:

• accessing repressed memories that are holding you back
• being able to feel again after years of being numb
• gaining personal power and the ability to set boundaries
• learning how to take better care of yourself
• feeling self-compassion and liking yourself more
• being able to enjoy life and have fun again
gaining self-confidence.

Inner child healing is a vital component of inner work because it reconnects us with a wounded element of ourselves: the child within. When we reconnect with this fragmented part of ourselves, we can begin to discover the root of many of our fears, phobias, insecurities and sabotaging life patterns. This is where the true healing happens!