Inner Child Meditation
Inner Child Healing Mediation
This free inner child meditation includes elements of trauma informed therapy, somatic therapy, visualization, mindfulness, and reparenting practices in order to activate an accessible and deep self healing.
Why work with the Inner Child?
We all have an inner child. The inner child is defined as a "semi independent sub personality subordinate to the waking conscious mind."
Working therapeutically to heal the child within allows us to safely navigate old wounds (that are still subconsciously running our patterns) and to open our hearts to a greater sense of self love, compassion, and trust in our world and in our relationships.
Who is the Inner Child?
Our inner child craves to be fully seen and understood in order to receive healing. When we don't tend to our hurting younger parts, they become "stuck" as unintegrated parts of Self that drive us to interact with our world in ways that are not actually True to who we are (and especially not true to who we want to be). When we slow down and listen to the conscious and unconscious needs of our inner child, we open the channel to take care of ourselves properly and show up to life with greater wellness and maturity.
As they develop between ages 0-7, children internally create lasting imprints of what it means to exist in the world (based on their outer experience). If they receive any messages from their environment of shame, blame, or a lack of emotional and physical security, they will begin to project these experiences onto the world around them. It is important to note that even children who grow up in extremely loving environments almost always endure difficult moments or situations that wound the inner child. Unaddressed, these patterns create suffering into adulthood.
When working with the inner child parts, they may show up at any age depending on what part of you is ready to be seen. Therefore on any given day, you may make contact with your inner infant, inner toddler, inner 6 year old, inner tween, or inner teen. In this work, you are invited to embrace whoever knocks on your door!
How does the Inner Child heal?
It is the empowered adult's choice to heal the child within - and create a stronger current concept of self as a result of addressing stuck patterning with origins in earlier developmental stages. As you shift the wounded child archetype into a loved and empowered adult, you will find greater access to consciously ensuring your needs and desires are met by you and your loved ones - as well as a more play with your Whole child like spirit! With your inner child out of the driver seat of your life (but still grooving along with you to great music in the back seat), your integrated and powerful Adult self will have more space to steer you in the direction of greatest alignment.
Try this Inner Child healing meditation as a way to make contact with younger parts of you that are ready for healing. Please reach out to support from a therapist or other professional to help understand any overwhelming content that may arise.
Bonus Inner Child healing practice
Take your inner child on a date. As a reparenting practice, ask them lovingly what they want to do, how they want to be listened to, and what/how they want to eat. See how it feels to pay attention to your needs and desires in this way. Be curious about how valid the basic needs that we often ignore, especially for ourselves, really are (such as security, comfort, connection, alone time, play, appropriate boundaries, desired nourishment, safety, attunement, proper intellectual stimulation, permission + space to fully express, and many more).
If you are parent interested in inner child work (on wounds that are impacting how you parent your actual child)…you may want to check out my TUNED IN parenting course that also includes parent self healing (with tools like this), as part of the process.
For individual support or questions, please reach out to me (Sophie Wolfe, LCSW) directly through my website and learn more about my clinical work here or my course here.