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What is inner child therapy called?
Inner child work, also referred to as inner child healing, is a way to address our needs that haven’t been met as children and heal the attachment wounds we’ve developed.
How do I heal my traumatized inner child?
Here are some ways that you can start the healing process:
- Listen to yourself.
- Meditate.
- Build a new set of caregivers.
- Try inner child therapy.
- Reimagine your childhood.
- Talk to your loved ones.
- Remember how to play.
How do I tap into my inner child?
Here are 10 ways to help you tap into your inner child and regain that sense of wonder:
- Keep an open mind.
- Spend time with children.
- Look at old photos to bring back memories of your childhood.
- Spend time doing what you truly enjoy.
- Be playful.
- Engage in laughter.
- Write a letter to your inner child.
How do I apologize to my inner child?
Other times, it might need to be addressed through deeper psychological work. Acknowledging the inner child means treating him or her with respect and love. You can do so by saying, “I love you,” “I hear you,” “I’m sorry you feel this way,” and “Thank you for being you.”
Can you ever heal from childhood trauma?
The effects of childhood trauma may seem like they can’t be cured. But with the right approach, you can overcome childhood trauma and learn to cope.
What is Inner Child Therapy?
Inner Child Therapy looks to help those who have been hurt as a child by both adults and the circumstances around them. Those looking for Inner Child Therapy could have been hurt in many different ways including; physical or sexual abuse, death or abandonment by a parent, neglect, rejection, criticism, humiliation, bullying, denial or confusion.
What are the causes of Inner Child Trauma?
They may have been hurt, not just by major, easily recognised traumas such as physical or sexual abuse or death of, or abandonment by, a parent, but also by the daily drip-drip traumas such as neglect, rejection, criticism, humiliation, bullying, denial or confusion. Inner child theory says that all of us have an ‘inner child’.
Is your ‘inner child’ broken through with Tantrums?
Maybe your ‘inner child’ has not yet broken through with ‘tantrum’ behaviour. Carefully developed defence mechanisms, built in childhood, to protect the tender hurt ‘inner child’ sometimes only begin to break down spontaneously in mid-life – hence the “mid-life crisis” that we’ve all heard about.
What is your unconscious inner child at work?
That’s your unconscious inner child at work. In Inner Child Therapy, we work on the premise that the ‘inner child’, the part of our unconscious mind where the memories and beliefs of childhood are held, can be communicated with and those mistaken and limiting beliefs can be changed.