How To Get In Touch With Your Inner Child
- Become aware. Accept that you have an inner child and get to know it.
- Get to know what your inner child needs. What we did not receive from our caregivers as children is often exactly what we need.
- Take responsibility. You have to recognize that it wasn’t fair and it hurt. Now you are the adult saddled with the responsibility of re-parenting yourself.
- Become a parent and friend to your inner child. Take inventory of what you did not receive as a child and what needs still need to be met.
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