Out of the Storm

Treatment & Self-Help => Self-Help & Recovery => Inner Child Work => Topic started by: sigiriuk on September 11, 2017, 07:42:36 AM

Title: Spiritual healing
Post by: sigiriuk on September 11, 2017, 07:42:36 AM
Hi All
After this session, I now have an inner child that is calming me down rather than vice versa.
Although welcome, I am puzzled by this. My IC seems more like an adult!
Slim
Title: Re: Spiritual healing
Post by: sweetsixty on September 11, 2017, 09:22:56 AM
Hi Slim,

I don't find it unusual at all, the work I did with my therapist saw me end up with many versions of myself at different ages.  Some of them caused me concern and I've had to work hard to calm them and help me to understand that they are the parts of my feelings that remain locked in the harsh feelings from the past. But the youngest of these, who is probably only about three, calms me all the time. She is too young to understand anything other than to play, be happy and crave love.

I call on her regularly when I'm down or struggling as she never fails to make me smile. She was innocent and I rescued her from the past  :)

Don't be puzzled, don't try to analyse just enjoy it.

:hug:
Title: Re: Spiritual healing
Post by: Blueberry on September 11, 2017, 01:17:14 PM
Quote from: Sweetsixty on September 11, 2017, 09:22:56 AM
Don't be puzzled, don't try to analyse just enjoy it.

Yeah, for a good while my 4 and 6 year olds were getting me out of bed in the morning! I accepted that. Inner Children arent' completely like normal external children.
Title: Re: Spiritual healing
Post by: sweetsixty on September 11, 2017, 06:04:41 PM
Maybe your inner child represents a time when you were happy and innocent?  Blueberry is right our IC's are nothing like our own children as they usually represent unresolved feelings of fear, shame, guilt, vulnerability, etc.

So I say if it feels right go with it x