11/05/2025
“An inner child wound is what forms when, as children, we absorbed the message, often indirectly that our needs, feelings, or expressions of self weren’t safe or welcome. Not because anyone meant harm, but because of the cues we picked up from the world around us.
To cope, we learned to shut down parts of ourselves and focus instead on what others thought of us.
Those survival strategies may have protected us then, but in intimacy they become barriers.
So now, we may struggle to voice our needs, feel rejected too easily, withdraw when conflict arises, or lose ourselves in trying to please.
Beneath it all is the same wound: the fear that being our authentic self will cost us love or safety.
This is why inner work matters.
Growth means turning toward those hidden parts with compassion, reminding them they are welcome now.
When we do, we stop performing for connection and start showing up authentically. Read that again “performing for connection”
And in that authenticity, intimacy transforms, from a place of fear into a space of freedom, safety, and deeper love”
lalitaa
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