Is your inner child running the show?

So much of our healing work begins, and often circles back to, healing the wounded aspects of our inner child.

Feelings of anxiety, depression, chronic stress, overthinking, high reactivity, emotional overwhelm, or a tendency to repeat the same patterns no matter how hard you try to change, these are not just personality traits, they’re often signs that your inner child is wounded and silently calling the shots.

The inner child is a living part of our conscious mind; it's the part of us that experienced early life, stored those memories, and made sense of them through the emotional lens we had at the time. The problem? A child’s brain doesn’t have the emotional maturity to interpret complex situations — so the conclusions it drew were often based on survival, not truth.

When we have not done the work, when we experience something in adulthood that even slightly resembles an old wound, our nervous system reacts — not to the present moment, but to the pain of the past. We get triggered, we lose emotional control, and we’re no longer responding as the grounded adult; we’re reacting as the hurt child.

For some, the idea of having a “wounded inner child” feels offensive, especially if they believe they had a happy childhood, but inner child wounds aren’t always about what was done to us, sometimes, they’re about what wasn’t done, the needs that were not met at the time, the comfort that didn’t come, or the words we didn’t hear. And our parents? They were often doing the best they could, from their own limited consciousness. This is not a blame game, it is life being a human being. But, things are changing, the world is evolving and we are learning that we can heal.

If you are tired of being emotionally reactive when you intend to stay calm and are wanting to break free from repeating patterns in your life, I encourage you to give a mindset coaching session with me a try. Contact me on WA 0726594055

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