Reparenting Our Inner Wounded Inner Child

Healing our wounded inner child is also known as reparenting.

It enables us to provide the emotional support we missed out on as we were developing, which created our current day maladaptive coping mechanisms.

Reparenting our inner child involves becoming mindful of, and then soothing the pain that was formed in childhood, when our emotional needs were not met.

There are many benefits to minding our own inner child work. They include boosting our feelings of safety, helping us regulate our emotions and nervous system, enhancing our self-esteem and uncovering unknown talents, passions and dreams.

Reparenting Our Inner Child in 3 Steps

1. Acknowledge there is a part of us that is unhealed.
2. Communicate with this version of ourselves. Make time and space to listen to what our inner child has to tell us. What is painful?
3. Nurture the version of ourselves that is wounded, by having our adult self you give our childhood self what it feels it missed out on.

By doing this work kindly and consistently, we can give the past version of us what she needed, in order to reprogram the unhelpful operating system and behaviors that we carried into adulthood.