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Inner child healing for releasing trauma

Carlotta L
6 min readOct 11, 2021

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Hello beautiful soul!

Each of us has an inner child who wants and needs to be seen, heard, supported and loved.

Although we may not always be able or willing to hear their voice, we must learn to care for our inner child in order to heal and release emotional pain from the past.

Your inner child can be happy and carefree or sad and gloomy.

A happy inner child leads to an adult life full of positivity, dreams that can be believed to be achievable, high self-esteem, as well as self-care and self-love.

A sad and gloomy inner child, on the other hand, makes you believe that you will never be good enough, makes you think that others will never accept you as you are, and leads you to want to achieve a perfection that does not really exist

How does one know if their problems as an adult are related to the wounds they have carried with them since childhood?

The ‘wounded child’ is usually impersonated by someone who, as an adult, repeats their childhood patterns of negative experiences or dysfunctional behaviour learned from adults (parents/caregivers/family members) throughout their lives. For instance, a child who was repeatedly told that they were stupid, might grow up with low self-esteem. A child who was repeatedly told to not…

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Carlotta L
Carlotta L

Written by Carlotta L

Searching for meaning in our emotions and feelings. Doctoral researcher in counselling psychology and psychotherapy. www.selfhealingclinic.com/ig

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