Inner Child Work

Inner child work is a very effective approach to recognizing and facing your childhood trauma and eventually healing from it. Inner child work recognizes that our behaviors as an adult usually stem from childhood experiences. Inner child work focuses on addressing our unmet needs by reinventing ourselves.
When I was three years old, I lost my hearing in one ear when my birth father slapped me across the head for knocking over the ironing board. I don’t remember that night, and my mother never talked about it. In second grade, a boy ran up to me on the playground and pushed me down, then he and his friends laughed at me.

I didn’t remember the details of that day. Who the boys were or exactly what they said, but I did remember how it made me feel. With the feeling of shame and my eyes filled with tears, I said, “I will never let anyone make me feel like this again.”
My knees may have healed, but the event carried scars into my adulthood. Thirty years later, my inner child was stuck in my head. I was allowing the memory of that day to penetrate deep into my soul. Getting in touch with your inner child can sometimes be painful, but when you come out on the other side, you are now in charge of your life living free from those demons that convinced your inner child that you were not good enough.