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What Is Inner Child Work?

What Is Inner Child Work?

May 25, 2023

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 …

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What is the Inner Child? (big title) The inner child is a part of us that feels emotions and is creative, spontaneous and joyful. Maybe the childish, exuberant child we were wasn't safe to be seen, and perhaps they were neglected or shamed. For many reasons, as we grow, we tend to hide the vulnerable parts of ourselves and lose our natural joy and spontaneity.

What Is The Inner Child?

May 25, 2023

If you feel ready to meet your inner child and start the reparenting work, you’ll love my ‘Meet your Inner Child’ short self-paced course

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Consequences of Unmet Childhood Needs Regression into Childhood States When childhood needs are not met as an adult, you may experience a ‘regression into intense emotional states like the ones experienced in childhood’ when that need was not met.

Consequences of Unmet Childhood Needs

November 3, 2022

Our core childhood needs are: Attachment Freedom to be yourself and to have your emotions and needs validated Appropriate limits so you learn self-control Independence, competence and self-identity Play When triggered by one of these needs not being met, you …

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Don’t shame yourself for having needs. Having needs is healthy, it is only when we try to get all our needs met through one person, that there is a problem. You’ll know this is happening because your inner child will throw tantrums when your needs are not being met. In a relationship, there are two people, with two different sets of needs. Make sure you know your partner's needs as well as you know your own. List your needs and assess which needs you can take care of and which needs are interpersonal. Think about all the different relationships that can take care of a need. For example, the need for deep connection. I have noticed that people who have deep connections with a few people tend to feel safer and more grounded than people who only have a deep connection in their intimate relationship. Think about ALL the people you would like to cultivate deeper intimacy with.

Understanding Needs in Relationships

November 3, 2022

Attempting to get all our needs met through one person is often a subconscious pattern. We all have the need to be loved, and accepted, for play, for trust and connection. Some of these needs can only be met interpersonally, …

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GETTING TO KNOW YOUR INNER CHILD Who do they like to spend time with? What do they like to do? What TV shows do they enjoy? Who do they feel safe with? Who are they scared of? What do they need when they are around those scary people? What do they need when you are stressed or sad? What lights them up? If they could do anything with you tomorrow, what would it be?

Getting to Know Your Inner Child

June 19, 2022

When I first met my inner child doing an inner child meditation similar to the one in the ‘Meet your Inner Child’ short course, she was about 16, sitting on a wall, wearing knee-length leather boots, smoking a cigarette with …

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Reconnection to the Inner Child

Reconnection to the Inner Child

June 19, 2022

Children are naturally creative. They have to be creative to survive in the world and learn about the world. They hear a new noise and want to find out what it is, see something new, and explore its taste, feel …

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Why do my parents still trigger me?

Why Do My Parents Still Trigger Me?

February 11, 2021

We all carry wounds from our childhood. It might be that you were teased for being chubby, you were pushed to succeed academically, or there wasn’t enough to eat. When these wounds are left unresolved, we might find ourselves as …

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