Healing the inner child - it is more than just nurturing

In fact Inner Child therapy, encompasses more than that. There is not a lot of organizations in-country that child abuse victims can reach out to. When I do a search, in US, Penny Parks offer resolution through inner child therapy http://www.ppfoundation.org/.

This includes whole lot of practitioners approach to help the victims walked through the suppressed emotions and pain and hurt of the wounded inner child and getting through healing process. Alot of people usually advise to forgive and forget and even in christianity, to use the scripture as to not dwell on the past.Which is on the contrary not helpful to the victims. Therapy include walking through and reliving painful memories and facing it and letting the hidden emotions that has been hidden unconsciously to emerge. And often require a practitioner or therapist to work with the victim if the victim is unable or not mentally able to do so. Shame and toxic guilt , feeling of engulfment and low grade depression, extreme to nothing at all thoughts and feeling being overwhelmed, losing her true identity are part of the symptons affecting the victim in adult years. Neglect from parents to help the children. etc. even when children ask for help. The victims grow up to be an adult child.

This is an interesting finding and not a lot of books are dedicated to addressing this subject of inner child therapy and I hope to shade some light on the process.

We also need to allow the victim the channel to express the anguish, and hurt and know that the blame should be on  the aggressor , and not the victim herself. Often than not, the victim carried a sense of toxic shame and guilt in his/life that he/she is the person who allow the situation to happen which in actual fact, the child is defenceless, vulnerable and helpless.

This is a good extract from a website:

Inner Child Healing = a path to freedom, serenity, and empowerment - an index of web pages


"It is through healing our inner child, our inner children, by grieving the wounds that we suffered, that we can change our behavior patterns and clear our emotional process. We can release the grief with its pent-up rage, shame, terror, and pain from those feeling places which exist within us."

"Because of our broken hearts, our emotional wounds, and our scrambled minds, our subconscious programming, what the disease of Codependence causes us to do is abandon ourselves. It causes the abandonment of self, the abandonment of our own inner child - and that inner child is the gateway to our channel to the Higher Self.

"We need to rescue and nurture and Love our inner children
"It is necessary to own and honor the child who we were in order to Love the person we are. And the only way to do that is to own that child's experiences, honor that child's feelings, and release the emotional grief energy that we are still carrying around."