Louise Hay’s Nurturing & Healing Your Inner Child

Your “inner child” is a part of your subconscious that has been picking up messages way before it was able to fully process what was going on - mentally, emotionally and also physically. Our inner child holds onto our earliest experiences, both positive and negative By connecting or reconnecting with our inner child, we get to understand how these experiences shaped us and to heal any unresolved pain. It can also help us rediscover the joy, creativity, and sense of wonder that we may have lost touch with over time.

It’s crucial to get in touch with the inner child that feels unloved and not good enough and do some emotional healing. That inner child might be waiting to be ‘found out’, sometimes feeling lost or lonely, rejected or ignored. As you become a true friend to your young self, you’ll recognise how they act out when they're scared or lonely.

Did you grow up feeling ignored, not wanted, or not heard? Is there still a part of you that feels ignored, not wanted or not heard? This is your inner child. Do they feel alone and frightened? Those feelings are absorbed by our nervous system and the emotional body very early on in our childhood. Today is about loving that inner child and reminding them they are safe and they always will be.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, there is a little child within you who needs your love. As children, when something went wrong, we tended to believe that there was something wrong with us. In time, the child believes, “There is something wrong with me. I’m not good enough.” As we grow older, we carry these false beliefs with us. There is a parent inside each of us, as well as a child. We can hear the parent tell the child what they're doing wrong or how they're not good enough. We need to allow our parent to become more loving to our inner child.

The parent wound refers to the emotional pain we carry from unmet needs or negative experiences in our childhood relationships with our parents or parent figures. This can manifest in various ways, from struggles with self-esteem and trust to difficulty with intimacy and setting boundaries. The power of healing is always there for you. The parent wound can be healed.

One of the easiest ways to reconnect with our inner child is just to have some fun with them. Play is so underrated! It’s a great way to reconnect with our inner child's sense of wonder. Can you remember the things that gave you joy when you were small? Why not incorporate them into your life now? Find a way to have fun with everything you do.

The inner teenager is very much alive, even if they feel buried beneath adult responsibilities. Our teenage years are a time of immense growth, rebellion, and self-discovery. But sometimes, those experiences can leave us feeling stuck or misunderstood. During today's lesson, we are going to explore the role of the inner teenager in our adult lives.

We all grow up yearning for that sense of security, that guiding hand that our parents or other care givers provided or were supposed to. But what happens when we're all grown up, and the world still feels overwhelming? And maybe you didn't have the most nurturing childhood, or perhaps you just feel lost and adrift in life. That's where the universe steps in.