Let me say this upfront: This isn’t about coddling. This isn’t about pretending. This is about finally listening to the one inside you who’s been silenced the longest. This also is not about healing the inner child so she/he can be quieter.

This is about hearing the scream beneath the silence., the ache behind the smile. This is about confronting the parts of you that never got to speak. Silence was necessary for survival. No more!

Your inner child is not some soft, whisper-y concept for pretty journals and pastel Instagram quotes. She (or he) is the root.

The wild.

The raw, holy, gutted truth.

The inner child deserves to be heard. YOU deserve to be heard.

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Giving the Inner Child a Voice

You want to heal? Let her speak.

Let her sob. Let her scream. Let her admit the things adult-you has been too “wise” to say out loud.

Let her tell you how it felt when no one came. When she begged for attention in the smallest ways. When she was told to shrink. To behave. To be quiet. To get over it.

She’s still in there. Still waiting. Still wondering if you’ll ever come back for her.

She deserves to have a voice. You have no idea, until you finally sit with her, how much she has to share with you. How much she has held onto and how much she truly wants to let it all go. She longs for freedom from fear and a union with YOU.

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How does the Inner Child Show Up

Sitting With Her Isn’t Easy. But It’s Everything.

She might not show up gently. She might come up in panic attacks, in breakdowns, in jealousies that make no sense. She shows up in the longing, in the ache, in the moments you feel invisible or small or too much.

She shows up in those moments when you are triggered. We all know those moments. Where something happens, and the swirl of emotions roll in and take over the mind. Later, you find yourself wondering why you acted that way, said that, or felt that. This is the inner child, well, being a child… and feeling it ALL.

Listen.

Don’t gaslight her. Don’t dismiss her. Don’t spiritualize her silence.

Sit with her. In the dark. In the ache. In the heat of all she’s never said.

Let her be messy. Let her be unreasonable. Let her be exactly who she needed to be before she learned how to survive by splitting herself in two.

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What does the Inner Child Need

Give Her a Voice

You want to know what changes everything? Asking her questions.

“What do you need me to hear today?”

“What is it that you are feeling?”

“How can I help you, what do you need?”

Then hush and listen. Don’t judge. Let whatever needs to come to the surface, come. Write it down. Speak it out loud. Cry it into a pillow if you have to. Just don’t keep her muted.

She has a right to take up space. A right to name the harm. A right to be held.

More than anything? A right to be loved by you.

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The Inner Child is the Doorway to Joy

Let This Be Your Devotion

This isn’t some one-time ritual. It’s a return. Again, and again.

You want to move ahead? Go back and get her. She is not in the way. She is the way.

You want power? Wholeness? Depth? Joy?

Then sit with the one who was silenced. Let her be loud. Let her be wild. Let her be heard.

Let her speak, and watch the healing begin. Watch as your life is filled with more joy. Feel the power within, as you return to not just living but to Life itself.