Talking with your inner child
It's essential to know the pain, but it's also important to focus on the growth and the potential and the healing that is provided by the difficulties that we have at all points in our life, including our childhood. Oftentimes parents don't realize the hardship they put on a child for the rest of his life. They don't mean to in most cases, but they do. And it's up to us then, when we grow up, to deal with those issues
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:23
Wow. How many of us really talk to our inner child? That's my question. And you inviting us to do that is really powerful. There's pain, there's rejection. There's a sense of mourning for that innocence and to hold that little person and say, it's okay, and she's still alive in us
It was like the whole idea of caring for that part of me, that inner child, really came to a clear understanding for me. And from there, I think it's only evolved because I think it's so important that I know people sometimes will emphasize being an adult and what that looks like, and childishness, quote unquote, and these kinds of things. But I think the entirety of being human is very much the adult and the child
Dewuan .
@FryedOreo · 4:48
And when you were speaking about this subject, it made me think, is it a part of our human experience that we need a nurturing parent? Sometimes it could take in the form of a mother, but it also could take in the form of a male as well, or a plethora of orientations, but just a nurturing parent. And could the lack of that stem from complicated needs of synthetically seeking nurturing parent? And in turn, how does that impact the role of one's inner child?
In fact, I don't think we can be a whole person unless we allow ourselves to have fun and enjoy ourselves in whatever legitimate way is our chosen method to do so. And I think we all, as adults, sometimes tend to think we have to be stoic and be the big guy. But when you've got kids like you do, and I think that's wonderful that you play with your kids like that. But when you have kids, they do make you feel younger
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Like, who else's fault is it? It's got to be mine type of thing. And so she was really cautious with us. We were ball headed and in the yard for a long time, and then we were finally able to be cut loose. But same clothes, same purple pro kids. I was so big that they had to get my khakis from the Army Navy store. And they were like, $6 or something
As to the way you spoke about being able to do it or reassuring one's child, I hadn't thought about that and I think it's possibly helpful. Normally, I think I will make it, I will take the measures, I will do what it takes to solve problems. But telling my inner child take your time, don't worry, you have the resources, you will do it one step at a time and you can get organized
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 4:42
It. So I'm working on this subject in therapy right now. I'll try not to get too personal, too much info out there, but I really appreciate you putting this out there too, because a lot of people don't really understand stand inner child work from what I when I talk to different people. And I thought it was a ridiculous idea at first because I'm like, how the heck do you talk to yourself?