How To Take Care of Your Inner Child
Many of us who experience trauma or abuse early in our lives have had to grow up sooner than we’d have hoped. We lose our ability to be in tune with our inner child whom we have had to lock up to maintain control over our lives.
These illusions of control may work for some time. But as we continue to ignore our inner child, it will continue to wreak havoc in our subconscious. We become easily influenced by other forces whose wills are stronger than ours. We lose our ability to distinguish who we are from what we were told to be.
Our inability to connect with our inhibited, true self in the form of our inner child will drive us to attach our happiness and self-worth on things that don’t last — our appearances, material things, and other people’s approval.
Here are some of the many ways you can cultivate a relationship with your inner child:
Keep a journal
Keeping a journal is one way to understand how our experiences have shaped us and how we can choose whether or not we let them define us.
We must make peace with our experiences, even the ones that hurt. Each one is a lesson in…
