Episode #157: Healing Inner Child and Reparenting Yourself

Healing your inner child is about accessing the wounds or suppressed emotions that need to be expressed and healed.

It’s about identifying different versions of your little self and healing them individually, one by one. You may have a version of your inner child that’s angry, one that feels unworthy, untrusting, or insecure.

Attuning to each of them, giving them attention, validating their feelings, and loving them through it all is where deep healing happens.

As children, we adapt different coping mechanisms. Since our brain is still developing when we form these behavioral patterns, they aren’t often the most beneficial.

This is when, as adults, we begin observing patterns that we have but want to change.

Healing your inner child is about reparenting and reconnecting with disowned parts of yourself.

It is also about learning and applying ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that support your well-being.

In this episode, I will teach you how to identify different parts of your inner child that need healing.

I will give you 4 questions that represent 4 steps to take when using inner child work as a way to heal.

At the end of the episode, we will take a few minutes to do a simple guided meditation practice to heal your inner child. Once you listen to the episode, you can get the full version of this meditation here.

Here is a glance at this episode…

[02:04] Why is inner child work so empowering, and how does it help you to heal your past

[04:57] How to recognize different versions of your inner child and understand the experiences that shaped her

[07:54] The importance of healing the inner child through self-compassion and recognizing coping mechanisms you develop due to past experiences

[09:04] 4 questions to ask your inner child

[13:18] A simple, short guided meditation practice for reconnecting and healing the inner child