The 2021 Cancer Season really brought me the sense of urgency I needed to share my inner child healing journey with y'all — as well as help you along yours. So many of us carry trauma deeply rooted in childhood: all of our programming and conditioning came from our upbringing. Many walk around as adults, not realizing they're still carrying their younger selves inside them.
There aren't a lot of tools out there to help you self-navigate this, so I wanted to shed a new perspective on both shadow work and inner child work. Combining the two gives us a well-rounded approach to healing and transcending — the continued progression of your soul's ascension. Basically, the journey of becoming more conscious, more aware, and more in your power.
✿ unpacking & integrating
It starts with the unpacking and integrating — the beliefs, programmings, and reactions we learned as children, because part of us is still operating as our inner child. Integrating what we learned with what we now know, and setting a new belief. This is a process. You've been on autopilot since you were 6 or 7. Give yourself some grace. Start with awareness and accountability.
You can only be accountable for the things you're aware of. If you don't see (or don't want to see) that an event, a person, or a thing is triggering an emotion, you won't be able to prevent a reaction — re-acting in a "default" way based on what you learned or saw as a child.
✿ empower yourself
Empowering yourself sounds cliché, but it's a key. When we feel good, we do good. We greet the world and it greets us back. Working through our emotions — and transmuting them into gratitude for the ability to feel all of it — is a blessing. You are a piece of the puzzle, and it wouldn't be complete without you.
The full list of tools I use (with journaling prompts below) is unlocked when you join the mailing list. And when you're ready to go deeper, the DIY workbook is at the bottom of the page. ♡