Life can transform when you heal your inner child and have gratitude - find your path of oneness.

  When we recognize our inner child and the experiences we've had on our life's journey as having been done for us, we can heal, find a path of oneness, and transform our lives. The past and the experiences we've had on our life journey lead us right to where we are meant to be today. If you have been feeling less than or stuck, or that you are on the wrong track, remember, God has a plan for you, and everything you have and will experience, good and bad, are part of his grand plan for you.

The unrecognized deep-rooted seeds of childhood

In her 20's, Ellen felt like she'd transcended her past. But what she didn't appreciate were the seeds planted and deeply rooted within her that told her she was unlovable. Although her adult brain told a different story, deep inside her she felt unlovable and this fact informed everything about her journey.

Discovering what your inner child is telling you

When Ellen works with her clients she listens to them and overserves patterns in their choices and experiences. The patterns that emerge in our lives are the gold of therapy. They are actually our greatest gift. Themes of abandonment, perfectionism, low self-esteem, she hones in and the next question is to discover where this feeling of abandonment began. The patterns always have roots in our childhood.

It is important to address the challenges we experience in life. Ellen focuses her work on addressing the challenges and not seeing them as problems. What we have are opportunities to learn. to learn to love ourselves more and experience greater self-acceptance.

So what exactly is inner child work?

There is no standardization of what inner child work is. But for Ellen, it means bypassing the cognitive thinking frontal lobe of our brain and tapping into our subconscious. She calls it our heart, but you could call it the hindbrain or primitive brain. This is where the pain of childhood rests.

The point of inner child work is not to make you believe that your childhood was bad. Even if you had a joy-filled, loving childhood, we all emerge from childhood with pain, things we need to work on.

It is important to look at experiences with gratitude instead of a victim mentality. We can take our experiences and use them to serve others. Our experiences can be seen as opportunities.

It is important to recognize the victim mentality versus the opportunity mentality. Pain and suffering versus gratitude and opportunity.

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