Learning how to give yourself what you needed as a child can be a powerful healing practice that can transform your life. 

Discussions in this episode:

Let’s explore the concept of caring for your inner child

Getting to know and connecting with your inner child. We share our stories too.

What did you need that you didn’t get?

Learning to listen to your inner child’s needs: validation, nurturing, honoring, healing

Is your self-talk truly yours or is it the voice of your parents, society, or culture?

Does your self-talk soothe you or stress you?

Practicing intentional reprogramming & changing the pattern

Growing more self-love: We can be loved at the level we love ourselves

We share some powerful practices that can support you

Here are what some of you said you needed as a child...

acceptance as myself as I was and encouragement, not being pushed to be like others

reassurance that everything was ok or would be.

Asking me: how are you? What is your opinion? How do you feel?

I needed encouragement, special attention, apart from the attention my siblings were getting.

I needed soothing.  I was put on the porch in windy Nebraska as a child and told I was going to be blown away, and I believed that.  My imagination was Huge.  My parents thought it was funny, they had no idea...

that is was ok to have big feelings

It's ok to be different than others

I needed to be allowed to cry when I felt sad and hurt.  I needed nurturing.  I think my mother was a narcissist. But I was punished for crying, and told that I didn’t have anything to cry about, and that I better stop crying or I’d be given something to cry about  That was mainly my mother.  Fear of punishment to this day.

I needed compassion and understanding about my sensitivity to noise. Instead I was either ignored or told I was wrong and bad.

What did you need as a child?  What does your inner child need?

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