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How Do I Comfort My Inner Child When She Still Wants That Love From My Parents?

ByJennifer Nurick
How do I comfort my inner child when she still wants that love from my parents?

Now you are an adult, you can take care of and love your inner child. Think of all the things your child wants from your parents and give those things to her yourself. It is usually things like being accepted, loved, understood, seen, and wanted. That’s your healing work. The healing journey with your parents is to grieve what they are unable to give you.

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Jennifer Nurick is a Master's-qualified Clinical Psychotherapist, attachment and trauma therapist and couples therapist with over 20 years in private practice. She helps adults and couples heal anxious and avoidant attachment, childhood trauma and recurring relationship patterns, drawing on IFS, EMDR and Emotionally Focused Therapy. Jennifer is the author of Heal Your Anxious Attachment (New Harbinger), host of the Psychotherapy Central Podcast and founder of Psychotherapy Central.

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