5 soothing tips to heal your inner child!

 

Everyone has an inner child, but we often forget to recognize their presence. But even if we discount their presence, they sometimes mark their presence by reaching out to us. Sometimes when our inner child is hurt or wounded by the trauma of our pasts, it tries to reach out to us. So ask yourself is your inner child wounded and trying to reach out to you? Many of us have repressed memories from our past that resurface every now and then. And it is a strong indicator that our inner child is wounded and hurt. So how to heal your inner child?

 

Healing your inner child is very much important. And it is not important for anyone else but for your mental well-being and personal growth. When you acknowledge your inner child, try to communicate with them, and reassure them of your presence, they reach out to you more often. And when you reparent your former self, you discover a lot of aspects of your personality and past unfold. 

 

Before you attempt to reparent your inner child and perform what is called as inner child work it is important to find out about your inner child and if it is wounded or not. There are a few signs that you are carrying a wounded inner child such as you have low self-esteem, have trust issues, tend to overdo people-pleasing, hold onto resentment and grudge, fear of taking a stand for your self etc. 

 

Once you determine about your wounded inner child, you should start to work towards fixing them. And why not when you fix a wounded inner child, you are fixing your former self and liberating yourself from all the pain of yesterday. 

 

But healing your inner child is not so easy. You need to take conscious efforts to heal and reparent it via a technique called as inner child work. So how to go about it. 

 

First of all, you should accept your past, and accept that you have witnessed trauma and that your inner child got hurt and is stuck there. Once you accept the very fact about your past and former self, you create a space where your inner child may come out and try to communicate with you. 

 

So when your inner child comes out, acknowledge its presence and embrace it. This is the first step toward accepting your inner child and healing it. 

 

When your inner child reaches out to you, tell them you love them and are sorry that they have to go through all the hurt. You have to empathize with your former self and communicate to your inner child that you were small and could not protect them but now since you are an adult, you will make sure you will do everything to protect them and be their shield. 

 

Your reassurance is very much important as when you reassure your inner child of your presence and protection, it starts to develop trust and starts to heal. You may also consider writing them letters to communicate your feelings to them. Some people have reported saying that when they write letters to their former self or inner child, they respond back or write them back. And when you ask them how they feel, they tell you their true feelings. It is a transformational journey, and it will make you more self-aware. 

 

Another way to reconnect with your former self is to formulate a dialogue by gazing at yourself in the mirror and talking it out. You can also try journaling to reach out to your inner child. Another way is to look at your former pictures or albums and then think of those times. Some pictures will evoke good memories and some not-so-pleasant ones. But you should process them all. When you start to accept your past, you start to heal. 

 

You can also try to engage in meditation and try to meet your inner child in your meditative state, as it is a safe place to meet your inner child. Another technique is visualization, where you actually visualize your inner child and meet them in a safe cosy place where you feel empowered and in charge. 

 

So, these are the ways you can heal your inner child. If you know of some other ways to heal and reparent your inner child, please tell us about the same.