Hello,
And welcome to Joanna for Tato Therapy,
Holding Your Inner Child.
My belief is that we carry all of our life experience in our embodied awareness,
In the cells that make up our being.
And as we move through life,
Sometimes a situation or a relationship will mirror an old wound in a way that brings it right up to the surface as though we're right back there in that original time.
Sometimes we can be hard on ourselves and think,
I thought I worked through this.
Why is this resurfacing again?
My belief is that those wounds come up because aspects have been unresolved.
Perhaps they were not met in the way that we needed them to be met at the time.
My belief is that when they do rise forward in the here and now,
That they are there and they are close to the surface.
And in that way,
They can be more receptive to the healing that we could meet them with.
So I invite you to notice where you may be feeling this pain or this old wound.
Is it an ache in your heart?
Is it a lump in your throat?
As you scan through your body,
Notice which part is activated,
Which part is calling to you,
To hear it.
And see if you can take a hand or both hands and just gently lay them on that place.
Allow that part of your body to receive the warmth of that hand.
That hand represents our inner parent,
Our inner healer,
And a loving,
Unconditional,
And compassionate voice.
If we can meet that part without expecting it to go away or resolve right away,
If we can meet it and actually let it know that we're here,
That we see you,
That we hear you,
And that we love you,
Can that part take in that unconditional,
Accepting,
Loving energy that says,
I'm just holding you.
I want to support you.
I want to support you the way that you needed to be supported back then.
I want to show up for you the way that you needed someone to show up for you back then.
Those answers are all within you.
They are only within you.
I'll often ask myself if there was something that this part needed to hear back then or right now.
Often there are mistruths and old conditioned narratives that may be outdated.
They may need to be corrected by the wisest inner parent that lives in you now.
So I invite you to notice as you're holding this wound,
What does it need to hear from you?
Perhaps it just needed to know that its feelings were valid and even appropriate that you had the right to those feelings.
The answer may be quite simple.
Whatever that is,
See if you can offer that to this space now and allowing those words to really sink into the cells that live there.
Simply breathe those words in and allow them to land there.
Find that wound to receive what it needs in the amount that it needs for your greatest good.
This may be an exercise that you need to come back to many times.
Know that you can show up for this part and even though we are closing this exercise today,
We can tuck that part into our heart and let it know that if it calls for us,
We will do our best to hear its call and to come forward with loving compassion.
I thank you for this journey.
This has been a recording by Joanna for Tatto Therapy,
Holding Your Inner Child.
Be well and go knowing your inner wisdom.
