Two Approaches to Inner Child and Wounds: Which One Actually Works
There are many approaches to inner child work. But beneath the variety of specific modalities, two fundamentally different orientations exist — and they tend…
Emotional Healing & Shadow Work
Integrating the parts we’ve hidden, denied, or disowned.
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Inner Child and Wounds vs Avoidance: How to Tell the Difference
One of the more practically challenging distinctions in inner child work: the difference between genuine healing engagement — including appropriate pacing and titration —…
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When Inner Child and Wounds Is Healthy vs When It’s a Pattern to Release
The word “wound” implies something to be released or healed. But inner child wound patterns occupy a spectrum — from expressions that are genuinely…
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Inner Child Wounds vs Genuine Security: What the Difference Actually Feels Like
The opposite of the inner child wound is not the absence of difficulty or challenge. It’s something more specific: genuine security — the felt…
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Inner Child and Wounds vs Its Most Common Misdiagnosis
The most common misdiagnosis of inner child wound patterns: character traits.
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12 Questions About Your Business That Reveal Inner Child and Wounds
The previous piece offered general questions about your inner child relationship. This companion piece goes specifically through the business lens — using the entrepreneur’s…
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5 Evening Practices for Shifting Your Inner Child and Wounds
The morning practices piece covered approaches for beginning the day with wound-awareness. This companion piece focuses on the evening — the time when integration…
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7 Somatic Ways to Work With Inner Child and Wounds Without Forcing It
The previous piece on working with inner child wounds without forcing it focused on approaches that work across cognitive, relational, and somatic layers. This…
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10 Relationship Signs Your Inner Child and Wounds Pattern Is Running Things
The previous list of signs focused primarily on the business expressions of inner child wound patterns. This companion piece looks specifically at the relational…
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7 Red Flags Around Inner Child and Wounds You’re Probably Normalizing
The inner child wound’s most insidious quality is that its patterns become the water you swim in — so habitual, so long-standing, that they…