INNER CHILD

🧐Have you heard of the inner child?

🌸This is an unconscious part of ourselves that represents childhood experiences, some of which are the product of unresolved relational trauma.

💫By working our parts we can help heal the wounds that we carry. The younger version of the self is the "inner child" part that, is usually protected by some other parts that we have developed over time.

🌻Human beings are not as simple as we would like to think. We are complex systems of interacting "parts" with a variety of emotions & motivations.

↪️Each inner part gets activated at certain times. Some of our parts are in pain, and others want to protect us from feeling that pain. Some try to manage how we interact with people, some are locked in battles with each other. And all this is going on largely outside our conscious awareness. All we know is that sometimes we feel anxious, content, scared, frustrated, happy, etc.

🌸Unpicking these different parts of the Self can help us integrate and learn how to make these parts work together with each other as a harmonious "inner family" that supports your interaction with the world.

​🌸Inner parts are natural divisions in the psyche. Sometimes they can be in conflict & sometimes in synchronicity.

This is why you may hear different voices in your mind telling you "apparent" conflicting information.

💫However, part of the therapeutic work is to be able to feel safe enough to listen to the different parts, in order to welcome them, and integrate them with compassion & understanding.

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