Inner Child Work

The concept of the "inner child" revolves around the idea that within each of us is an unconscious part that still reflects the child we once were, manifesting as certain behaviors, personality characteristics, even actions we make in our day to day lives.

Trauma stunts your emotional growth. If a traumatic event occurs to us at a young age, or at multiple varying times in our childhood, we end up carrying the unexpressed pain and emotion felt and then repressed by ourselves at that age, as children do not know how to express and examine trauma. So the event is suppressed in the mind and body, needing to be released when we are adults and capable of examining complex emotions.

To put it simply, connecting with your inner child and his/her emotions and memories allows you to find the roots of your issues as an adult. The inner child can repress many things, emotions, memories, physical pain, beliefs about the self or other people, all of which continue to exist within you as an adult, influencing you without your knowing, recreating stories of trauma in your life, sabotaging your ability to find peace and healing until it feels validated and heard. Inner child work is vital to revealing these long-held beliefs and emotions in order to gain clarity over how you act out of them daily and to release them as they no longer have a place in your life.

Survivors of childhood abuse (emotional, physical, or sexual) or anyone struggling with:

Depression and anxiety, anger management issues, poor self-esteem, overly self-critical behavior, self-sabotaging behavior, emotional numbness, abandonment issues, personality disorders, relationship/marital issues.

Benefits include:

Reconnecting with emotions you have been numbed to, accessing repressed memories that might be causing self-sabotage, gaining back your sense of personal power and personal boundaries, learning self- love, self-care, and self-compassion, gaining self-confidence, releasing toxic repressed emotions, recognizing unmet needs with you and how to take care of them, recognizing unhealthy patterns and behaviors in your life, reconnecting with your most playful, loving, open-minded, eager self.