Inner Child Work

Getting in touch with your inner child allows you to reparent yourself and heal from traumatic childhood experiences. When your inner child is blocked or idealistic, you tend behave like a child. Your emotional regulation is shot and you tend to carry all of your repressed needs, emotional experiences and internalized beliefs that most of us are not aware of.

When we are disconnected from our inner child, we tend to resort to childhood coping mechanisms: age regression. We throw tantrums, throw things, give the silent treatment, yell or withdraw. We also use adaptive coping mechanisms like fantasizing, day dreaming or using romantic partners as escapism from reality.

To address this, first acknowledge your inner child. Witness your behavior, choices & habitual responses.

Then, observe these parts of self and practice acceptance.

Do this through inner child validation: “I

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Many philosophers and everyday people propse we each have a self. There are two types of self which regulate your personality and behaviors every day.

If our childhoods are healthy enough, we automatically develop a personality subself that acts like a naturally-talented orchestra leader. The subself has clear, realistic wide-angle, long-range vision.

Otherwise, we develop a different kind of self. The true self gets overwhelmed or blocked from developing and directing their actions by other well-meaning but limited personalities who want to run the show. When personalities distrust and disable the resident true Self, they form a “false self.”

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