Inner Child Healing

Inner child healing is an approach that works on healing unresolved emotional hurts, experiences, and traumas from childhood.

Sometimes negative events from childhood can remain with you and your inner child, events involving embarrassment, shame, fear, or abuse. You may think you have gotten over these events, however the emotions around them can creep up on you without warning. For example, you may notice you are overly triggered by events, a person, a sound, or a smell, this may cause intense emotions or reactions, leaving you feeling confused or wondering what happened.

Many people also develop negative beliefs about themselves from childhood, beliefs that cause feelings of stress, anxiety, or shame, or that negatively impact your present moment, your relationships, your career, and your overall life experience. Taking time to identify these beliefs, feelings, and triggers, where they came from and working to resolve them can help you to get a lot more out of life.

Benefits of inner child healing include:

– Allowing your emotions to impact your decision making, interactions with your child and discipline attempts, being over-reactive, overly stressed, anxious, or angry

– Helps you to better manage your emotions

– Helps you to let go of negative beliefs and conditioning that you learned in childhood

– Increases your ability to experience feelings of self-compassion and self-love

– Improves current relationships

– Increases self-esteem and confidence

– Helps you to react to events as an adult, not as a child

– Enables you to experience more happiness, fulfilment, and joy in life

– Helps you to come to terms with things that have happened in the past and move forward into new beginnings

– Helps you to develop new more adaptive coping skills

Inner child healing may be helpful for you if:

– You know you have unresolved hurts or traumas from the past

– You experience intense emotions such as anger, anxiety, sadness, guilt or shame, but you’re not sure why

– You worry about being abandoned

– You have a fear of intimacy or relationships in general

– Your reactions to events can be much larger than what is appropriate for the situation

– Events from your childhood still have a negative impact on your life

– Events from your childhood affect your current relationships

– You feel like a burden

– You experience lack of confidence, low self-esteem or negative thoughts or emotions about yourself because of experiences from your childhood

– You would like to improve your relationship with one, or both, of your parents

– You want to forgive something or someone from your childhood