Mothering my Inner Child
Coming off the heels of the last episode where we talked about “the work” and the timing of that last post being right after Mother’s Day, I thought that it would a good time to talk about the ways that I have been healing my inner child. I’ve had some conversations with folks who have also been connecting with their inner child lately. Part of “the work” is getting to the root of the anxieties and patterns of pain and trauma to better understand how to address and heal them. A great deal of our safety strategies, behaviors and patterns were created when we were young, mostly between birth and ten. But of course we also develop certain behaviors that we picked up from our caregivers. All of this is a part of how we work on ourselves and it starts with…
the inner child