Do you know that feeling when part of you wants to stay and part of you wants to leave? Or part of you that loves your parents and feels loyal towards them and another part that is furious about the …
Being An Immigrant
Leave a cooment if you’ve ever experienced immigration. I immigrated to Australia from the UK when I was twenty-five years old. In so many ways, it was an easy transition: the same language, similar food and culture. I had lived …
Working With Your Critical Inner Voice
Leave a comment if you know where your critical inner voice came from. Here are some examples: The guy you are dating hasn’t called you back. The critical voice says, “Well, of course, he is not that interested. You …
9 Signs You Grew Up Chronically Lonely
Chronic loneliness is not a diagnosis. It is a term used to describe loneliness experienced over a long period. This can happen for many different reasons. It might be that you grew up as an only child with a parent …
When You ‘Act Out’ It Might Be Part Of You That Is Trying To Protect You
The last time I ‘acted out’, my inner child was trying to defend me. She felt that the other person had unjustly exaggerated a mistake I had made, and her response was ‘fight’. She was trying to protect me. When …
Acting Out
Pause – When you feel yourself about to ‘act out,’ can you pause? Can you hold the tension and discomfort in your body and be curious about what is happening for you? Can you think? I am feeling so much …
Inner Child Tantrums
When I am triggered, I know the reaction comes from an unhealed, younger part of myself. Let me give you an example. Let’s imagine that your mother left without any forewarning when you were seven years old. She was gone …
14 Signs of a Wounded Inner Child
Inner child work is some of the most profound inner work you can do on yourself. I know many therapists and healers in Sydney, all of whom have done their inner child work. It is a common language we all …
The Wounded Inner Child
Building a healthy relationship with yourself takes time and effort if you have grown up with unhealthy relationships around you. It takes time to change the patterns that were put in place in childhood. Learning HOW to turn within and …
What Is Inner Child Work?
Inner Child work is part of many research-based psychotherapeutic models, including Transactional Analysis, internal family systems, EMDR, Gestalt Therapy, schema therapy and narrative therapy. The reason why it is part of so many therapies is that it WORKS. We all …