The Body-First Technique for Inner Child and Wounds
You may have spent years working on the story of the wound. Understanding it. Reframing it. Finding compassion for it. And still finding it…
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You may have spent years working on the story of the wound. Understanding it. Reframing it. Finding compassion for it. And still finding it…
There is a clarifying idea at the heart of wound work that shifts how you understand what you’re doing: your subconscious wounds are already…
Most inner child approaches work through memory, language, and narrative. They ask you to recall what happened, make sense of it, and revise the…
If you’ve been doing inner child work for a while, you may have noticed something: the work sometimes reaches a plateau.
There’s a concept in shadow work that tends to stop people mid-sentence: “What you don’t own, owns you.”
Here is something worth sitting with: what you call “your personality” may be, in significant part, a collection of adapted responses — things you…
You’ve probably had the experience of knowing, intellectually, that a belief isn’t true — and having it run anyway.
You’ve probably identified the wound. Named it, traced it, maybe even processed it in various ways. And there are moments when you feel like…
You’ve done the work. The books, the practices, the inner inquiry. And you probably have some kind of morning routine already — something that…
You’ve done the deep inner work. And somewhere in that work, you’ve probably discovered this: there’s a difference between the pain of a wound…
You’ve done the work. The practices, the inquiry, the healing. You might even have a fairly clear sense of where your inner child wounds…
You’ve done the belief work. The inquiry practices, the journaling, the questioning of your own assumptions. You know how to examine a thought.