Episode 25: Healing Your Inner Child

This is a summary of a workshop I recently did at PlayThink 2024 (thanks Paige Zen, it was an awesome festival).

The three steps to healing are:

1. Spend time learning how to ground yourself through B - Breathing, T- tapping, S - stretching, S - Shaking. BTSS used 2 minutes 3 or 4 times a day will help you establish a calm safe center which will serve as a foundation for a safe space to connect with your inner child.
2. As you being to reach to your inner child, you may have blocks that prevent you from connecting. Those blocks may have protected you from the scary memories or feelings but now keep you from accessing that part of yourself. Those blocks could be a self-critic, an over-thinker, a disassociative part, an tired part (tends to knod off any time he or she feels stressed), an angry part or any of other parts. In this section, I discuss serveral blocks and how to approach them with compassion and curiousity to work with them to safely allow access to your inner child.
3. Actually creating an internal safe place, perhaps a room or a meadow, to being to reach out and connect with your inner child in whatever way feels safe to them.

As always, thank you for joining me on the journey of healing. Feel free to share comments or questions at alan@thecuriouscounselor.com

May you always be compassionate in your thoughts, compassionate in your words and compassioante in your actions. In all things be curious!