I was at a film night with friend. We watched ‘The Wisdom of Trauma’. My friend asked about the concept of inner children, so I described them like a series of Russian dolls…with every moment of our life represented by the dolls in a linear way…until the present moment. The doll’s shape may change or the expression may alter at a point when a trauma or unprocessed emotion occurred.

With somatic therapy & counselling we can often discover at which point an inner child or inner Russian doll accumulated a ‘wound’ or trauma. This can integrate the ‘change’ so the wound is no longer causing the effect on our present self as it once did.

How do our inner child wounds present in the present moment? Maybe thinking how an actor would portray that wounded adult, may give an insight into how our body and biochemistry may change? It is with our perceptions that we view the wound from these inner children and that can be different for each of us.

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