Inner Child | Personal Growth | Healing

In Rejecting the Inner Child, You Reject Yourself

Do you struggle with accepting and embracing your inner child? You’re not alone

Me at about 7. Self-hatred was just beginning to settle like the beginning of winter- cold, edgy and harsh. It’s taken some work to get there, but I love that girl. Through love, all pain will turn to medicine -Rumi Author archive photo

I often see clients who struggle with accepting and embracing their inner child. Some vehemently reject this concept for years.

(I was one of them)

There’s a perfectly logical explanation for this: Being a child just wasn’t safe for many of us at times (or all the time). So, if you were harmed as a child or seen as a burden, why would you want to go back to that part of you? Why live in more pain than you already have?

It’s a common experience to reject the parts of ourselves that feel vulnerable or wounded, but in doing so, we reject a vital part of ourselves.

So, what is the inner child?

Simply put:

It’s the part of ourselves that holds our past experiences, emotions, and memories

We can have multiple which doesn’t mean we’re pathological.