How to Reparent Yourself: A Starter Guide for Inner Child Healing
What is Reparenting? How Reparenting Helps to Resolve Unmet Childhood Needs and Repair Relationships…
Reparenting is simply learning to love and to meet the unmet needs of our inner child in the present. As such, it is particularly supportive for the process of inner child healing. Our inner child is the psychological part of ourselves, that is holding on to negative emotions as a result of what took place when we were young (especially below the age of 7 years old). Because love, guidance and support could be missing in our younger years, we endeavour to fulfil any unresolved needs now through reparenting.
For this article, I am describing how we can personally reparent the younger part of ourselves. In the past, reparenting is often referred to as a form of healing where the psychotherapist assumes the role of a surrogate parent in order to address any trauma arising from abusive or defective parenting. However, there is more than one way to self-parenting as practised by therapists today. I’d like to adopt the perspective that the ultimate responsibility for healing our inner child lies with us, even though we could be having a therapist or mental health practitioner for guidance.
