Let Your Inner Child Come out to Play (or be Angry -- we don’t mind)

2023-05-05

The very idea of the Inner Child can be a valuable but also potentially triggering energy to work with. That energy might show up as curious and playful. Or bratty, angry and even deeply wounded. In this episode, we cover: Resistance to delving into any past versions of ourselves, child, teen, adult Pop culture notions regarding “inner child” work and what’s helpful versus what can seem shallow or dismissive of the nitty gritty Anxious children, and anxious adults

The very idea of the Inner Child can be a valuable but also potentially triggering energy to work with. That energy might show up as curious and playful. Or bratty, angry and even deeply wounded.

In this episode, we cover:

Resistance to delving into any past versions of ourselves, child, teen, adult
Pop culture notions regarding “inner child” work and what’s helpful versus what can seem shallow or dismissive of the nitty gritty
Anxious children, and anxious adults with frozen parts of ourselves

While this work can be daunting, it doesn’t take long! We offer tools and imaginative techniques to help integrate parts of ourselves. (Sometimes, that only takes awareness.)

Pro Tip: while using your imagination to work with different parts of yourself . . . you can break ALL the rules!

Other tools include:

Questions to help you determine what ages of yourself might be arrested or needing attention
What parts of your body the inner child inhabits
Benefits of this work
Tips to invite in disparate aspects of yourself
And, of course, a meditation and our personal stories.

Resources:

Your own therapist or counselor specializing in this work
Integrated family therapy (IFT)
The movie The World According to Sesame Street! (which teaches children & adults to play -- and we got the name slightly wrong in the episode)
The movie Inside Out
Sacred Contracts by Carolyn Myss (This highly complex book works with archetypes, but does look into different parts of ourselves)
Our expert in the next episode!

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