Shadow Work & Inner Child Healing

Learn to reclaim all that we once abandoned in ourselves.
And apply the healing salve to our own wounds.

What Is Shadow?

We’ve been taught it’s safer to run from, numb and suppress our feelings and emotional needs because they’ll never be met anyway.

When we suppress ourselves in this way (especially as kids), it fractures off a part of ourselves that get’s put ‘in the closet’, in darkness, as a shadow until retrieved.

Shadows, by nature, can look bigger, darker, scarier than what’s truly within: a sweet young child that needs to be seen, held and reclaimed. In each of us.

This part of us is only focused on reunion, and we will stay stuck in the same cycles that created the wound until we turn and face it.

In the meantime, the wound festers simply because we keep experiencing it, believing the negative experience as truth.

Healing Our Inner Child

Shadow and inner child healing often go together because it’s up to age 11 that most of our original wounds are formed.

‘Calling on the divine within us to ‘re-parent’ our wounds.’

All humans have the kingdom of heaven/spirit/chi inside of us. We are the ones we’ve been calling out to come back for us, no one else.

In taking on this kind of practice, we learn to lean in to acceptance (not ok-with), we can start to feel grounded in ourselves and plant seeds of enduring self love.

Mental Reprogramming

Our thoughts patterns are like water-ways in the brain – the more time we spend in a particular pattern, the more deeply that neuro-pathway is established.

We have a responsibility to address the ‘stinking thinking’ even subtle trauma loops can create. (Check out neuro-plasticity and our innate power to change our divine operating systems.

Also note, if we ignore our shadow and inner child healing and try to skip directly to mental re-calibration it won’t be effective.

When our intention is set, our personal path is revealed step by step. It’s an inner journey no ‘guru’ can do for us.

The practical application of this wisdom is still helping me through the emotional trauma that resulted in chronic inflammation, auto-immune disease, and big physical/emotional pain cycles.

To transmute the old, subconscious load of inner misunderstandings so that I can exist freely, in a non-reactionary state.

So that the world around me is no longer able to hijack my nervous system and push me toward its bidding.

And I am a loving steward of All That Receives My Energy.
(And thus, all that does not.)