Your Inner Child is Yearning to be heard. Are you listening?

So often in our most reactive moments in parenting its not our adult selves leading the show. It’s those young tender parts that feel wounded, attacked, that don’t feel inherently safe. In my work as a Conscious Parenting Coach and Somatic Therapist the inner child comes up a lot. It comes up often spontaneously when we ask the body what it is holding onto in relation to an issue and it comes up when we consider our feelings and needs.

Often it’s the feelings and unmet needs of our inner 5 year old. We yearn to be understood, to feel safe, to be listened to and if we didn’t get these in childhood then it makes an awful lot of sense that they might be cropping up in our triggered moments as parents. 

Hi, Im Emily

I am a Conscious Parenting Coach. I help big hearted parents who are struck in high reactivity, anger and disconnection to find more ease and flow in family life. Check out my 1:1 Couples and Group Coaching Programmes.

It often comes down to this: were you emotionally held as a child?

By this I mean, were your feelings and needs validated? Were emotions safe? Did your parents view outbursts, tantrums, meltdowns and anger as natural and normal? If they didn’t, that might have cost you a lot. Your child’s big emotions might feel like an emergency to your wounded inner child. You might get stuck in over thinking, constantly trying to analyse yourself to seek that sense of being understood you missed as a child. In this episode I talk to Katie Nash who is a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner. It was fascinating to explore the similarities and differences of how the inner child comes up in our work with clients.

If you have never met your inner child before an interesting question might be- why not? It’s a vital and important part of ourselves and whether we are aware of it or not it’s ever present and often leading the show in our reactivity.

Katie works with clients empower them to make changes in their life when they are struggling to make them alone. Together clients work with Katie to explore what's holding them back and use one, or more, of many tools, to address this. Katie specialises in the treatment of anxiety, phobias and confidence issues.

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