Every version of you that learned to go quiet, to need less, to feel less, to get yourself where you needed to go without asking anyone for help, was not broken, she was adapting, and the adaptation kept you safe then AND it is keeping you small now, inner child healing is not about going back to fix something, it is about returning to reclaim everything that went quiet so the rest of you could survive

When looking to learn how to live differently, I continued to see that despite my efforts of just stopping behaviors and redirecting my...