10/19/2025
The inner child is the part of you that had to grow up before it was ready. It holds the moments your body & mind couldn’t fully process…the places where tenderness, understanding, or presence were missing. Long before you had language, your nervous system was learning how to manage what you went through. It studied tone, expression, & silence, shaping patterns that helped you survive. Those same patterns still influence how you move through the world, how you relate, & how you protect yourself.
Inner child work starts with the nervous system. It’s the process of returning to our early imprints, allowing them to continue developing, rather than keeping them sealed in the conditions where they began. It’s where the body is finally able to move through what was interrupted. Each time we stay present with emotion instead of bracing against it, we are creating new patterns of regulation. We begin to ‘give ourselves what we needed when we were younger’, becoming the presence that was missing. The nervous system begins to recognise what once felt too much can now move all the way through.
Repair happens when those younger imprints are no longer separate from who we are now. The brain begins to reorganise its pathways & the body begins to respond in ways that reflect the present instead of the past. The younger parts of us start to participate in the present moment instead of repeating the past. The inner child is the living physiological archive of every adaptation that helped us to survive, still holding the memory of how deeply we were trying to love & be loved❤️🔥I hope this lands!
(If you cant tell, thats me & mini me in the photo!)
