Protecting Your Inner Child

We betray our inner child by:
- not listening to the things she tells us (our instincts)
- prioritizing everyone else over her
- telling her that her feelings don’t matter
- not providing the things she needs
- wearing her out through overachieving and under-resting
- telling her she doesn’t matter
- making her feel invisible
So much of my work in therapy has been about choosing to protect my inner child over anyone else except my own living children. It’s been a long road, and I have more work to do. But I’ve achieved some pretty major milestones lately on that front, and I am proud of myself.
Most of all, I can tell she’s proud of me, too.
Don’t lose your inner child’s trust. Treat her right. Parent her well. She deserves the best of you.
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