What’s your inner child trying to tell you?

Enjoying “Ice Cream for Breakfast” by Laura Jane Williams about rediscovering your inner child and this post really helps to show how we can nurture, nourish and where necessary heal our inner child so that we can thrive fully as adults.

Sometimes we learned lessons or developed beliefs as children which can get in the way of open learning and adapting. By tapping into the child parts of ourselves that are vulnerable and impressionable we can be both “the grown up” and the child providing unconditional self love, self-compassion and self-support.

As adults we can help our inner child untangle the feelings and coping mechanisms that they developed, see younger situations and feelings from the perspective of an adult and provide the adult support, love and care to explore the world and unlock our passions and creativity through being open to experience and play.

We can be curious about how past traumas may affect our present behaviour, develop healthier coping mechanisms, reconnect to passions, dreams and talents that may have been side-lined and feel more empowered and present for ourselves and in turn others through greater self awareness.

When we stop playing we start letting experiences dictate who we are and what we want. Imagine what could be if we all harnessed our curious inner children…