Unlocking the Inner Child
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What if the most courageous thing you do today is listen to the smallest voice inside you? We shine a light on the inner child—curious, bright, unashamed—and explore why that part of us became obedient to survival and how we can welcome it back. Through raw personal stories, including a childhood moment of feeling lost in a crowd, we map the invisible thread between early wounds and adult triggers like social anxiety, constant urgency, and the belief that we’re “always late” or “not enough.”
From there, we get practical. We share simple tools that actually work: acknowledging your inner child by name, keeping a photo nearby to rebuild connection, using warm self-talk under stress, and praising yourself for small wins to retrain safety. We lean into play—swings, ping pong, finger painting, laughter—as serious medicine for a tense nervous system. You’ll hear how memory work balances painful flashes with chosen moments of joy, how journaling helps pull roots from old stories, and how gentle meditations can call back the light and energy you lost to shame, fear, or silence.
This is a guided path from programming to presence, from armored performance to authentic living. If you’re ready to trade survival scripts for wonder, these steps will help you feel more seen, more brave, and more you. Subscribe for more on the authenticity series, share this with someone who needs a kinder voice today, and leave a review to tell us which practice you’ll try first.
Chapters
1. Awakening the Inner Child (00:00:00)
2. Mission: From Trauma to Authenticity (00:00:38)
3. Series Context: A Is for Appreciation (00:02:23)
4. Why the Inner Child Still Matters (00:02:39)
5. Abandonment Memory at the Parade (00:05:23)
6. Adult Triggers and Survival Patterns (00:10:45)
7. First Steps: Acknowledge the Child (00:12:14)
8. Practices: Self-Talk and Praise (00:16:24)
9. Play as Medicine: Swings and Ping Pong (00:19:18)
10. Evoking Memories and Reframing (00:22:05)
11. Journaling, Laughter, and Daily Joy (00:24:07)
12. Guided Meditations and Energy Recall (00:26:05)
13. The “U” in Authenticity: Unlock and Live (00:28:49)
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