How to Heal Your Inner Child

Week 1: Understanding your inner children

• What is an Inner Child?
• Attachment wounding and the effects on the Inner Child.
• How to identify your inner children.

Week 2: The roles of family of origin

• The different roles played in families.
• Identifying the functional adult and the core self.
• Understanding core and unmet needs.
• How masking works and the different faces we wear.

Week 3: Healing carried emotions and toxic shame

• Dealing with exiled/forbidden inner children.
• Transforming toxic shame.
• Working with the criticising “inner parent”.

Week 4: Developing the nurturing parent within

• Strengthening the identity of the functional adult.  
• Learning to recognise the adapted adult-child.
• Nurturing compassion and self-love.

Week 5: Building healthy esteem from within

• What reparenting your inner children looks like.
• Using creative practices to build healthy esteem.
• Building better relationships with the inner child and others – as within, so with-out.

Week 6: Walking the path of the “functional adult”  

• Daily practices for connecting with your inner children.
• What to do when your stuff gets triggered, AKA “when the s**t hits the fan”.
• Becoming one with the “whole” self.
• The road to functional adulting and what to expect next.