inner child work
Therapeutic childhood revisiting
Inner child work is a therapeutic approach that addresses unresolved emotional wounds from childhood by connecting with the vulnerable, younger part of oneself that still carries those experiences.
The practice typically involves visualization, journaling, or guided exercises to comfort, validate, or "reparent" this internal child self: Through inner child work, she learned to give herself the reassurance she never received as a kid.
The concept draws from psychotherapy but has spread into self-help and popular psychology.
- healingRestoration of health
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- reparentingProviding oneself missed care
- nurturingSupportive care-giving
playful · vulnerable · abandonment · therapy · safe space · holding space · integration · emotions · felt sense · safety · embrace · tenderness · memories · grief · soothing · comfort · trust · attachment
inner child workcognitive behavioral therapy
Treatment restructuring harmful thought patterns
CBT · behavioral modification · behavior modification · talk therapy · psychoeducation
inner child workself-criticism
Judging one's own failings
emotional repression · self-denial · pushing through · toughening up · sucking it up
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