Inner Child Resources

These tools are about meditation, journaling, and animism.

Connecting with your Inner child can be a really vital part of your relationship with yourself. Our childhood is always with us and as Sigmund Freud believed, our past can influence our present in many ways. 

Connecting with your inner child can be very rewarding 

• Heal past wounds: process wounds and unresolved feelings

• Rediscover joy, creativity, playfulness, wonder for life and whimsy, and spontaneity

• Can give you more emotional expression and freedom as you bring more awareness to a parts of yourself 

• Improve your relationships as you learn more about your needs, triggers

• Children are super resilient, imaginative,  and adaptable - maybe as you tap back into your inner child, you can bring more of that into your life now 

Meditation:

So everyone can close their eyes drop into your body

And take a slow deep breath 

Inhale through nose 

exhaling out through your mouth. 

Inhale, your belly softens - tailbone extends

Exhale your navel collapses in towards your spine

(Space)

with each inhale, you gather up all the stressors from the day 

and pushing them down  out into the Earth as you exhale

Giving it to the earth 

• As energy as fertilizer 

 And you can do this a couple times 

(Space)

Inhale soft belly

Exhale belly collapses to spine 

With your eyes closed, you are going to imagine a place in nature

A place where you can lean your body against

Imagine a big oak tree 

A big rock 

A mountain 

A body of water

Someplace that feels really good to you

And I want you to ask this Big Tree or these mountains whatever it is 

To support you 

(Space)

And as you are leaning against this place 

Notice in your body having this supportive energy 

You can feel your jaw soften 

Your shoulders drop and neck relax

 the back of your body

Against this place in nature 

And as you are leaning against this tree or rock ,  as your body gets heavy and easy

you imagine your inner child 

They may be leaning against the tree or rock with you 

They can be playing 

They can be peaking their head out of a bush, 

Unsure of this new environment 

With your spine still leaning against this rock mountain or tree

Feel yourself here 

Feel your inner child here

the reason we start with mountains or big rocks 

is because

These bodies of nature 

Are benign

this great capacity to hold you 

to support you without any agenda or conditions

And they have this bigness to them

In this place 

your inner child is always met

There is always a yes 

Your inner child can be as loud as they are, as angry, as wild, as rampunctous, as timid, as shy 

whatever you and your inner child need to express 

These elements are big enough to hold it and receive it 

If it feels right, 

You can imagine a favorite animal coming into the place

A beloved dog, cat, 

Maybe there is a sweet bear, some deer

A butterfly 

They are all here to support you

And you are allowing your little one to have this feeling of support 

Space

My teacher Teeni always says: If you have a problem, make the resources bigger than the problem 

And so I offer This place as a resource to your inner child 

And as you lean against this place 

Feel a lessening on your forehead

A softening  between your eyebrows

Feel the inner corners of your eyes sink into your face

And the outer corners of your eyes slip down your face 

Now maybe today, it was difficult to connect or feel that support. 

Maybe your inner child didn’t trust you 

Maybe it felt awkward 

That’s okay 

That is understandable

These things take time 

You can come back here anytime you like 

Now we’re going to slowly come back 

You can wriggle your nose 

Touch your skin 

I am here