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Healing Your Inner Child

A person’s inner child includes sources of strength, lightheartedness, and/or skills that they have learned throughout their stages of growth. But it also encompasses wounds and traumas sustained during the course of growth. Although it could take some time, it is possible to heal these wounds from your inner child.

Healing your inner child can be helpful in addressing:

Transgenerational trauma: Transgenerational trauma occurs across family generations. Youngsters continue to engage in maladaptive behavioral patterns after early exposure to codependency, people-pleasing, and trust difficulties. These wounds can begin to heal and the transgenerational trauma can be stopped with inner child treatment and reparenting.

Attachment issues: When one’s attachment styles are insecure, they are providing evidence that as a child, they felt the need to take care of/protect themselves for one reason or another. These safe childhood coping strategies develop into harmful adult coping strategies that hinder an individual. Working with your inner child teaches you more flexible ways to take care of yourself and your needs.

Perfectionism: Perfectionism in adulthood may stem from a desire to keep a caregiver happy or receive praise from a caregiver in childhood. It's critical to distinguish between what is happening now and what used to function in childhood. The habits we hold from our childhood often don't work in our adult lives.

Low self-esteem: As we grow, we experience the world through our caregivers. If they speak to us in a harsh or abusive manner, we will take on that critical voice as our own internal dialogue. You can have a deeper understanding of who you are right now by learning about the needs, feelings, and experiences of your inner child.

How to Heal Your Inner Child

Prior to starting the healing process with your inner child, it's critical to realize that it will require time. The suffering associated with childhood trauma or distress cannot be eased with a magic bullet or fast remedy. As it turns out, inner child work is really a conscious, continuous conversation between the inner child and the adult self.

Here are eight ways to heal your inner child:

1. Recognize & Accept Your Inner Child

Even if you’re unable to recall many memories from your childhood, you know that at one point, you were a child and that time in your life has had an impact on you. Recognizing your inner child can begin with looking at photographs from your childhood. Even if it could be tough at first, it's crucial to give yourself permission to acknowledge that your upbringing included difficult periods and to look back on past memories.

2. Listen to Your Inner Child

Pay attention to your inner child and accept that it is wounded. This is an ideal moment to observe your own mature responses and attempt to discern what they are attempting to convey to you. By showing love and care, consider what your inner child needs from you as an adult.

Some other questions that you can ask your inner child are:

• What are you judging or blaming yourself for?

• How are you feeling?

• How can I best support you?

Listening to your inner child and experiencing the feelings and emotions that may arise is a valuable way to grow and work through the past.

3. Write a Letter

Composing a letter from your adult self to your inner child can be a profoundly healing and loving practice. It releases some of the responsibility your inner child may have always felt, while simultaneously giving it the wisdom of your mature self. You could start this letter with "Dear Younger Me."

Writing a letter from the viewpoint of your inner child is another useful practice. The inner child is free to write anything that comes to mind in this letter using crayons or markers. "Dear Big Me" would be the opening line.

4. Try Meditation

When we meditate, we become still and are able to control our thoughts and attention. Working through inner child wounds frequently causes us to lose concentration and make it difficult to pay attention to the past. A guided, straightforward method to help you access emotions from the past is to practice inner child meditation.

5. Try Journaling

Using writing, audio, art, video, apps, or other mediums to express your ideas and feelings can help you make sense of them. Journaling is an active therapeutic approach. Setting new goals for your life and changing unhealthy coping mechanisms can be facilitated by being able to identify and let go of these thoughts, feelings, and behavioral patterns as an adult.

Another approach is journaling from the point of view of the inner child. This will allow the inner child to express him/herself, rather than keep the emotions bottled up inside.

Below are signs that your inner child is healing:

• You’ve learned healthy coping mechanisms

• You’ve broken patterns of avoidance

• You show yourself empathy and are able to recognize your needs.

• You’re able to set boundaries

• You’re better able to regulate your emotions

• You can create everyday routines and rituals.

• You are able to clearly express your own needs

• You are able to take care of yourself and tune into what you need

• You let yourself have fun and be impulsive.

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