New: guided meditation to connect with your inner child

What would you say, if you were able to go back in time and sit with your young self as your adult self?

If you’ve spent a lifetime having to people please, constantly adapt or prioritise others’ needs, it’s likely that your inner child is crying out for some love and positive attention.

In therapy, we might explore the idea of emotional attunement: how much the caregivers in your childhood were able to meet you at your emotional level, to try to understand your inner world.

Often, it’s that sense of never quite fitting in, or belonging.

Perhaps your child self didn’t have a voice to be able to speak up and express your feelings, or ask to go home, or to be with the other parent, or to say your sibling was hurting you.

It can be a powerless experience to be a child, trapped in the limitations of their family environment.

Even if you’ve had a relatively “nice” childhood, there could be aspects of your young self that are still playing out in the present day: feeling invisible, that you’re ’too much’ or stuck in behavioural patterns which keep repeating.

It can be scary or even feel impossible to connect with this part, especially if you’ve experienced childhood trauma, so this is work to undertake with a great deal of care and self compassion.

Inner child work can be profoundly healing as a tool to help you to connect with those hurting part.

I’ve written a guided meditation to help my therapy clients safely connect with their younger self, and find the words of love, care and encouragement that perhaps you’ve always yearned to hear.

If this is something that you’d like to consider for yourself, or to start some therapy sessions, please reach out.

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