Ever feel like you're stuck in the same cycles—whether in relationships, your career, or emotions—without fully understanding why?
You might be doing all the right things on the outside, but something inside keeps pulling you back.
The answer could lie in the shadow self—the unconscious part of your psyche that holds the emotions, traits, and memories you’ve hidden away.
Your shadow self includes the thoughts, beliefs, desires, and traits you’ve rejected or suppressed throughout your life. Some parts were hidden for survival. Others were simply never acknowledged.
Often, these shadows are formed in childhood—right alongside the development of your inner child. When you were told certain feelings or traits were "bad," you pushed them away to feel loved or accepted. But those hidden parts didn’t disappear. They simply went underground, shaping your behaviour from behind the scenes.
Read: 5 Signs Your Inner Child Is Wounded
We often assume the shadow self only contains the "dark" or negative. But it’s more nuanced than that. There are two sides to the shadow:
This includes traits you admire in yourself—like kindness, empathy, or strength—but which may become imbalanced or overextended.
Example:
You see yourself as a compassionate person, and that’s beautiful. But sometimes, you give too much. You constantly prioritize others’ needs over your own, struggle to say no, and feel guilty for expressing anger.
Your light shadow here is your compassion—positive on the surface, but masking hidden patterns like people-pleasing, lack of boundaries, and emotional suppression.
These traits, while “good,” can become toxic when unbalanced.
This includes emotions and traits you consider unacceptable—like anger, fear, jealousy, or neediness.
Example:
Maybe you were taught as a child that crying is weakness, or that being afraid makes you a failure. So, you learned to bury fear and vulnerability.
As an adult, this dark shadow might show up as emotional disconnection, avoidance of intimacy, or chronic anxiety—because you’ve never made peace with those “unwanted” parts.
Ignoring your dark shadow doesn’t erase it. It just drives it deeper, where it subtly influences your decisions and relationships.
Your inner child is the emotional, sensitive part of you formed in early years. The shadow self is often built to protect that child—from pain, judgment, or abandonment.
When your inner child is wounded (not seen, heard, or accepted), the shadow self forms layers of armor around it. This can look like perfectionism, detachment, or even aggressive self-protection.
Healing the two goes hand in hand.
Read: Inner Child Therapy: A Deeper Look into Healing from the Root
To live fully, you must recognize and integrate your shadow self—both the light and the dark.
Here’s what happens when you do:
Healing isn’t about becoming “better.” It’s about becoming whole.
Healing the shadow self often starts with awareness. Ask yourself:
Once awareness sets in, healing tools like Inner Child Work, Shadow Work therapy, Family Constellation, or energy healing can help you gently integrate these hidden parts.
Your shadow self is not your enemy. It’s your unacknowledged truth.
And your inner child is not broken—they’re just waiting to be seen.
When you begin to heal both, you reclaim your power, your peace, and your full potential.
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Have you ever been told things like:
“Don’t cry, boys don’t do that.”
“Sit properly, you’re not a kid anymore.”
“Stop laughing so loudly it’s not ladylike.”
Sound familiar?
From a young age, most of us are conditioned to hide our emotions, follow social norms, and grow up too quickly. But while our bodies mature, our emotions often get stuck in childhood. This emotional stagnation leads to insecurity, anxiety, stress, and dysfunctional patterns in adulthood.
That’s where Inner Child Therapy comes in.
At every age, we carry the need to feel unconditionally loved, heard, and accepted. When these needs are unmet during childhood or even in the womb they create subconscious fears and beliefs that can shape our relationships, career choices, health, and self-worth.
Inner Child Healing works at the subconscious level, where most of these imprints are stored. Since our inner child is innocent and impressionable, this therapy helps in reframing old experiences and healing them from the root.
Read: 5 signs your inner child is wounded
Developed as a formal practice by Dr. Lucia Capacchione in 1976, this therapy uses techniques like reparenting, guided visualization, inner dialogue, and regression to connect with and heal the wounded child within.
In the Indian spiritual context, we find similar wisdom. Consider the story of Abhimanyu, who absorbed knowledge from the womb, a powerful reminder that our emotional and energetic environment begins shaping us before we are even born.
Inner Child Therapy is helpful for a wide range of emotional and behavioral challenges, including:
What your conscious mind believes today is often rooted in what your subconscious mind learned decades ago. Unless the issue is healed from the source, it keeps repeating in patterns, behaviors, and choices.
Inner Child Healing helps you recognize these patterns, reframe limiting beliefs, and make peace with your emotional past.
Inner Child Healing sessions usually last between 30 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the individual’s issue and emotional readiness. It is essential to undergo these sessions with a trained and intuitive healer who can safely guide you through the process.
At HealClinic, our certified experts offer online Inner Child Healing sessions that are safe, compassionate, and deeply transformative.
If you feel blocked in your life whether in love, work, or self-worth there’s a chance your inner child is still waiting to be heard and healed.
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Read: Why you should not ignore your inner child even if you think you are fine.
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Inner child healing is a journey many adults undertake to repair emotional wounds left unacknowledged in childhood. And if you’re a parent, you’ve probably asked yourself: “How can I raise my child differently so they don’t grow up carrying the same wounds I did?”
The truth is you can’t fully prevent inner child wounds. The inner child is a natural psychological formation even in the most loving households, it gets shaped through how the child learns to adapt, protect, and make sense of their world. But what you can do is ensure the inner child that forms is secure, emotionally safe, and whole not burdened by shame, fear, or abandonment.
So how do you do that? Through conscious parenting.
Read: Inner Child & Self-Sabotage: How Childhood Trauma Triggers Fear of Success, Rejection, and Failure
Conscious parenting is the practice of raising a child with awareness, presence, and intentional emotional response not just repeating the patterns you inherited. It's about recognizing that your child isn’t a project to fix, but a person to understand, support, and guide while also healing yourself along the way.
Inner child wounds often form when a child feels unsafe, unheard, unseen, or misunderstood. But even the most attentive parent cannot shield their child from every difficult experience. Life will still happen. Disappointments will come. What you can do is be the cushion they fall on, the emotional anchor they return to.
In short: You can’t prevent wounds, but you can prevent lasting damage.
Here are key ways to support your child’s inner world so they grow with tools to thrive, not just survive:
Children absorb energy more than words. Your unhealed wounds your anger, fears, anxieties don’t stay hidden. The more you heal, the more emotionally available you become.
You don’t need to be a perfect parent. You just need to be present one.
Keep working on your own inner child healing. The safer you feel inside, the safer your child will feel around you.
Your presence is your child’s emotional home. When you respond with empathy, listen without distractions, and offer comfort in distress, you teach your child:
“My emotions are safe here. I matter.”
This presence becomes a soft space where their developing inner child feels secure.
Children ask questions not just to gain knowledge, but to feel connected. Don’t brush off their curiosity or confusion.
Answer their “why”s with patience, and validate their feelings even when you can’t fix the situation.
Example: Instead of saying, “Don’t cry, it’s just a scratch,” say, “I know it hurts. I’m here. Let’s clean it up together.”
This creates emotional literacy, not shame.
Mistakes are how children learn. If they grow up fearing mistakes, they will grow up fearing themselves.
Demonstrate forgiveness, encourage effort, and celebrate learning moments.
“It’s okay to get it wrong. What matters is that you tried.”
Children don’t automatically know how to set or respect boundaries. You can teach them through your own behavior:
Respect their "no" when it’s appropriate.
Apologize when you cross a line.
Let them see you saying “no” to others kindly.
This builds their sense of agency and self-worth.
Let your home be a space where no feeling is wrong whether it’s sadness, anger, jealousy, or joy. Teach them to name what they feel, and that feelings come and go.
Avoid phrases like:
“Don’t cry.”
“Big boys/girls don’t get scared.” Replace them with:
“It’s okay to feel scared. I’m here with you.”
“Want to talk about it?”
Be consistent. Follow through on promises. Be a safe base they can return to even when they mess up.
This teaches them:
“Love doesn’t disappear when I make a mistake.”
You can’t raise a child without ever triggering their inner child. But you can raise a child who knows how to feel, express, and heal instead of repressing and denying themselves.
By healing yourself and being present emotionally, mentally, and physically you give your child something most of us never got: A safe start. A solid emotional foundation. A home within themselves.
Read: The Link Between Inner Child Healing and Physical Health
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Do you find yourself getting triggered over small things?
Do you procrastinate even when you know what needs to be done?
Do you feel like you're constantly in a silent battle with yourself, others, or the world?
You're not alone. And you're not broken.
What many of us see as “personality flaws” in adulthood chronic anger, defensiveness, procrastination, low self-worth are often not flaws at all. They’re survival responses. They’re echoes of the inner child wounds we’ve carried silently for years. They protect us from perceived threats.
Understanding these patterns can be the first step to healing them.
At the core of these patterns lie four of the most common emotional wounds experienced in childhood: Rejection, Abandonment, Shame, and Control. Each creates a survival response in the child, and if unhealed, these survival strategies evolve into behaviors that can feel confusing or overwhelming in our adult lives.
Read: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Inner Child (Even If You Think You're Fine)
Let’s take a closer look at each of these four childhood wounds and the emotional imprints they leave behind:
What they experienced:
This child may have felt invisible, ignored, emotionally dismissed, or constantly criticized. They grew up feeling that they were never "good enough" to be fully loved or accepted.
What lingers:
Even years later, the pain of rejection simmers under the surface. Adults with this wound often carry unresolved anger from feeling unseen or unvalued. They may quickly feel slighted, misunderstood, or left out even when that’s not the case. A constant need to protect themselves emotionally can lead to trust issues and chronic resentment.
Core belief:
"No one truly cares about me. I have to look out for myself."
What they experienced:
This wound forms when a child experiences physical or emotional abandonment whether through the absence of a caregiver, emotional unavailability, or feeling emotionally unsupported.
What lingers:
As adults, this wound often manifests in a deep fear of being left behind or not being “enough” to keep someone’s love. Procrastination may become a defense mechanism if I don’t try, I can’t fail. Underconfidence, clinginess, or the tendency to sabotage relationships can also stem from this emotional void.
Core belief:
"If I don't do everything right, I’ll be left alone."
What they experienced:
Children who were frequently mocked, criticized, or embarrassed by caregivers or peers may carry deep emotional scars of shame. They were made to feel small for expressing emotions, making mistakes, or simply being themselves.
What lingers:
This inner child becomes an adult who constantly doubts their worth. They might overcompensate by trying to prove themselves or avoid trying altogether out of fear of failing. Defensiveness, harsh self-talk, and anxiety around others’ opinions often stem from this early shaming.
Core belief:
"I’m not good enough; people are judging me."
What they experienced:
This child grew up in a strict, hyper-disciplined environment where emotions, choices, or individuality weren’t tolerated. Love often felt conditional based on obedience and performance.
What lingers:
Adulthood becomes a battleground for freedom. These individuals may constantly rebel, resist authority, or struggle to trust leadership. They carry simmering anger not just toward others, but toward any situation that threatens their sense of autonomy.
Core belief:
"I must fight to stay free."
Read:The Link Between Inner Child Healing and Physical Health
You may not remember every moment from childhood but your body and behaviors often do. These four emotional wounds can quietly dictate how you react to stress, love, failure, and even joy. But the good news? Once you recognize the wound, healing becomes possible. Inner Child Healing helps you gently revisit those early emotional landscapes not to relive the pain, but to rewrite the beliefs that no longer serve you.
Click here to explore more of our blogs on Inner Child Healing from understanding how unhealed childhood wounds affect your relationships, career, confidence, and even your ability to manifest the life you desire.
Each blog dives deeper into patterns you might be living with every day without even realizing they began in childhood.
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We often separate emotional pain from physical illness assuming the body breaks down only due to diet, genetics, or lifestyle. But what if your frequent headaches, unexplained fatigue, or even chronic stress weren’t just physical issues but emotional ones rooted deep in your childhood? This is where inner child healing comes in.
An inner child wound is the emotional residue of unmet needs, rejections, or traumas you experienced as a child. Whether it was constant criticism, feeling unsafe, not being heard, or having to “grow up too soon,” these early wounds shape how you cope, connect, and carry stress as an adult. And while these wounds often go unnoticed, your body remembers them and responds.
When these unresolved emotions are pushed down for years, they start appearing in your physical body as illnesses. Illnesses is your souls way of asking for help, since it was not addressed at the emotional or mental level.
Let’s take a closer look at how suppressed childhood emotions impact your body:
Your inner child, the part of you that once needed love, safety, and validation is still within you. And until you tend to those unmet needs, your body will continue to respond as though it’s still under threat.
Read: The 4 Most Common Childhood Wounds and How They Still Impact You Today
When you begin inner child healing, you're not just addressing emotional pain, you are regulating your entire system. Healing helps shift you out of chronic fight-or-flight mode and into safety and balance.
This process helps:
Over time, many people report feeling lighter in their bodies, more rested, and more in tune with themselves. When your inner child feels safe, your nervous system begins to relax and your body finally gets a chance to heal.
Read: Inner Child Therapy: A Deeper Look into Healing from the Root
Often, people go from doctor to doctor trying to fix physical symptoms but never feel truly well. That’s because many symptoms have emotional roots. You can change diets and routines, but if the inner child is still living in fear, no external change will fully heal you.
Inner child healing works from the root it helps you feel safe enough to release what your body has been holding on to for years. As you release the stored emotions, your body starts healing.
Your body has always been trying to tell you a story — a story rooted in your earliest experiences. Inner child healing allows you to finally listen, understand, and respond with care.
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Physical symptoms often have emotional roots and healing your inner child can be the most powerful medicine you’ve never tried.
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You’ve heard it all vision boards, affirmations, positive thinking, goal-setting. Yet despite doing everything right, your manifestation attempts keep falling flat. You visualize abundance, dream big, take aligned action, and stay consistent but still feel stuck. Sound familiar?
That’s because manifestation isn’t just about mindset. It’s also about the emotional patterns hidden deep in your subconscious patterns shaped by the wounds of your inner child.
Your inner child holds the emotional imprints of your early years, moments of rejection, fear, neglect, or pressure to be perfect. These wounds don’t just stay in the past. They silently run the show in your adult life influencing your self-worth, confidence, beliefs, and ability to receive.
You may be aligned in thought and action but not in emotion. You dream big, visualize success, plan and act yet there’s no shift. Because deep within, there are subconscious fears and limiting beliefs keeping you from receiving.
You might think you want success but your inner child still fears abandonment, criticism, or failure. That part of you remembers being told you weren’t enough or that love had to be earned. As long as those wounds go unacknowledged, they keep sending out mixed signals to the universe.
Read: How Inner Child Healing Can Help You Find Career Clarity and Purpose
This is where inner child healing becomes your superpower.
Through gentle, guided sessions, you bring those buried patterns to the surface. You meet the parts of you that are afraid, unworthy, or ashamed and offer them what they always needed: love, safety, and acceptance.
your subconscious creates 95% of your reality. It runs on emotional memory not logic. If the emotional memory says “success is dangerous” or “love is unsafe,” your body and mind will resist it even if your conscious self craves it.
Inner child work helps you rewire that memory and shift your entire vibrational frequency making you a match to what you desire.
Read: Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Your Inner Child (Even If You Think You're Fine)
When your inner child feels seen and safe, you naturally start showing up as the version of yourself who can receive. You stop chasing. You start allowing.
So if you’ve been doing all the “right things” but still not seeing results It’s not your fault. It’s your unhealed past calling for attention.
And inner child therapy is the key to finally unlocking your manifestation potential.
If this resonated, know that this is just one layer. Inner child healing affects every area of your life — relationships, purpose, health, and more.
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Don’t let unseen wounds limit your future. Our expert Inner Child Healers at HealClinic are here to walk with you — gently, safely — through the parts of you that still carry fear and pain.
Book a session today and begin healing from the root. Because when your inner child feels safe, you stop blocking and start receiving.
Your inner child is the emotional memory of your early experiences, the part of you that still holds your first wounds, unmet needs, and also your purest joy and curiosity.
Ignoring this part of you doesn’t make the pain go away. It buries it.
And what’s buried doesn’t disappear, it silently shapes your adult behavior, relationships, decisions, and even your physical health.
An inner child wound is the emotional pain or unmet need from childhood that was never acknowledged or resolved. It can stem from experiences like feeling unloved, ignored, shamed, controlled, or even from emotional neglect. These wounds stay stored in the subconscious and continue to influence how you think, feel, and relate often without you realizing it.
These are not just adult personality traits. Many times, they are echoes of unhealed emotional wounds. This is where inner child healing becomes essential not to relive the past, but to stop it from unconsciously driving your present.
Inner child healing is not about blaming what happened in childhood. It’s about understanding how those early experiences shaped your beliefs and behaviors so that you can respond with awareness instead of reacting from old wounds.
In fact, many people don't even realize they’re carrying these burdens until they begin to explore them. If you resonate with this, you might want to check out the 5 Hidden Signs of Unhealed Inner Child Wounds you may be surprised by what’s showing up in your life.
Read: What Happens in an Inner Child Therapy Session? Step-by-Step Breakdown
In an inner child healing session, you:
When done with the right guidance, inner child healing can help you finally feel safe in your body, clear in your mind, and connected to your true self.
Read: How Many Sessions Do You Need for Inner Child Healing?
And if you’ve ever wondered why you keep attracting the same kind of toxic relationships or emotional triggers, Inner Child Healing for Relationships explains how deep-rooted wounds could be the hidden cause.
You don’t have to wait until you're in crisis to begin.
Inner child healing is for anyone who wants to live with more peace, clarity, and emotional strength.
Start where you are. Your inner child has been waiting for you.
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At Healclinic, we don’t just hand you information — we walk with you through the process.
Our blog series on Inner Child Healing is a complete journey in itself — covering everything from how childhood wounds affect relationships, to career blocks, self-sabotage, emotional triggers, and even physical health.
Read them to understand your inner child more deeply and connect with us when you are ready.
No matter how long ago the pain began, it’s never too late to heal.
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One of the most common questions people ask before starting Inner Child healing Therapy is:
“How many sessions will I need?”
The truth is there’s no fixed number. That’s because Inner Child Healing is not a one-size-fits-all process. Each person’s emotional history is unique, and so is their healing journey.
Think of emotional healing like peeling an onion, each session uncovers a deeper layer.
Sometimes, a single childhood incident is at the root of many present-day issues like anxiety, fear of abandonment, or low self-worth. In such cases, one session might help address the root cause more quickly.
But often, one issue (say, trust issues in relationships) may lead to multiple childhood experiences, each carrying its own emotional imprint. In such cases, you may need several sessions to fully process and release all of it.
A single childhood memory can hold a bundle of emotions, anger, sadness, fear, helplessness, guilt.
Let’s say in one session, your Inner Child shows you a moment of being scolded harshly by a parent. That session may help you release the anger.
But the sadness and helplessness from the same incident might still be buried.
That’s why the same incident may come up again in another session not because healing didn’t work, but because another emotional layer is ready to be processed. Inner Child Healing works in stages, gently allowing your nervous system to release one emotion at a time.
Read: What Happens in an Inner Child Therapy Session? Step-by-Step Breakdown
This is a very real concern:
“What if I don’t feel comfortable continuing, or simply don’t have the time?”
Here’s the honest answer:
There are no side effects if you stop after one session.
However, your issue will most likely remain unresolved because only one emotional layer may have been addressed.
Stopping after one session doesn’t cause harm, but it also doesn’t allow for full healing. Just like a physical wound needs cleaning, dressing, and time to close, emotional wounds require layered attention too.
If you're unsure about continuing, speak openly with your therapist. Inner Child work is powerful but it works best when you feel safe and supported throughout the journey.
There’s no competition or timeline in this work. Whether it takes 2 sessions or 10, the focus is always:
What is your Inner Child ready to release today?
Some clients feel significant shifts in just 1–2 sessions. Others discover deeper patterns over time like perfectionism, people-pleasing, or emotional avoidance and continue healing over weeks or months.
It all depends on what comes up during the session, and how many emotional knots are connected to that experience.
Example, Rita came to us with the issue “ I am unable to say No to anyone, that is creating stress and I am unable to do what I want to do”
During the first session, the therapist realised that there was a very strong need in her to be perceived as a “Good Girl”
This need had many sources starting from her grandfather, her parents, nuns of her convent school, society where she lived and other environmental factors. It took her 7 to 8 sessions to peel and release each layer.
But post that she was a new person, Not only did she learn to draw boundaries in her personal and professional life but she developed new hobbies and started going on solo trips which she had always wanted to.
It took 3 to 4 months but she reclaimed her life.
Read: Inner Child & Self-Sabotage: How Childhood Trauma Triggers Fear of Success, Rejection, and Failure
Inner child healing is a deep journey — and there's so much more to discover.
From how childhood wounds affect your adult relationships, to how they shape your purpose, patterns, and even your health, each layer reveals something powerful.
Click here to explore and read our other blogs on Inner Child Healing — whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your understanding, there’s something for you in every post.
Inner Child Healing is a gentle, layered process. Every session helps you understand yourself better, feel more whole, and shift the patterns that have kept you stuck.
You don’t have to do it alone. We’re here to walk this path with you—one session at a time.Book a session with our expert Inner Child Healers at HealClinic.
Curious about what really happens during an Inner Child Therapy Session? You’re not alone. Many people feel drawn to inner child work but aren’t sure what to expect. Is it like regular talk therapy? Does it go deep into emotions? Will I have to revisit painful memories?
In this blog, we’ll walk you through a real-life-inspired step-by-step breakdown of an Inner Child Therapy Session, so you know exactly how it works and how it helps. Whether you're struggling with low self-worth, relationship issues, or repeating emotional patterns, this therapeutic approach gently brings healing where it's needed most.
But first, what is an inner child wound? An inner child wound is an unresolved emotional pain from your early years often caused by neglect, criticism, lack of safety, or unmet emotional needs. While the events may be in the past, the emotional imprint stays with you and quietly influences your self-worth, relationships, and reactions in adult life.
Read: Why You Feel Stuck in Life: The Role of the Inner Child step
Every Inner Child Therapy Session starts with understanding your current struggle. For example: You constantly feel “not good enough” in relationships. You might become clingy or insecure, even when your partner hasn’t done anything wrong. This pattern affects your sense of self and your ability to feel safe in love.This is where the therapist helps you slow down and connect the dots between your present-day emotions and your earliest emotional wounds. She narrows down to 1 core issue which connects most of what you are going through today.
As the session progresses, you might remember being frequently criticized as a child, nothing was ever good enough, and love felt conditional on your achievements.This creates deep-seated beliefs like:“I must be perfect to be loved”“I will be abandoned if I’m not good enough”These unconscious beliefs become the emotional root of the issue you're facing today. The core issue is then connected to the dominant emotion that is running your adult life step
Now comes the heart of the Inner Child Therapy Session working directly with the wounded inner child. A skilled therapist will guide you through techniques such as:Visualisation: Meeting your younger self in a safe, guided inner journeyDialoguing: Speaking with your inner child and letting their voice be heardMemory Reprocessing: Revisiting and reframing painful childhood momentsReparenting: Learning how to give your inner child the love, safety, and validation they never receivedHypno-drama and body-based release (as needed)The therapist will call upon multiple inner child at different ages associated with the same issue to resolve the underlying emotion. These methods are deeply nurturing and intuitive, tailored to what your inner child needs to feel seen, safe, and supported.
As old memories surface, so do old emotions. You may feel sadness, anger, or even unexpected relief. Your therapist will help you gently process and validate these emotions many of which may have been buried for decades.This is one of the most transformative parts of an Inner Child Therapy Session, as it allows your body and mind to finally let go of the emotional weight you’ve been carrying since childhood.
After the emotional release, comes the integration work. You’ll explore how to care for your inner child moving forward creating new habits of self-talk, boundary-setting, and emotional regulation.This step empowers you to not just heal, but to live from a place of wholeness, where your adult self is no longer controlled by the wounds of the past.
Read: How Many Sessions Do You Need for Inner Child Healing?
Unlike traditional approaches that only address the present, an Inner Child Therapy Session brings healing directly to the source of the pain. It doesn’t just help you “cope” it helps you release old patterns completely, and rebuild from a place of emotional safety and inner worth.
At times the core issue may have multiple emotions and stories running in your life, which may need more than 1 session to address.
If any of this feels familiar, the emotional blocks, the people-pleasing, the self-doubt your inner child may be calling for your attention. Click here to read more blogs and explore the full depth of Inner Child Healing including how it affects your career, relationships, physical health, and ability to manifest change.
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Have you ever set goals, made plans, even taken steps toward your dreams only to hit an invisible wall? You procrastinate, aim for perfection but never feel good enough, or somehow sabotage your own success. These are classic signs of inner child and self-sabotage patterns.
Self-sabotage refers to unconscious behaviors or thought patterns that block your own growth, happiness, or success, even when you want those things. It might look like procrastination, avoiding good opportunities, or making choices that push away what you desire. Most people don’t realize they’re doing it, because self-sabotage is rooted in emotional wounds that were formed early in life.
While you may consciously want to grow and thrive, your subconscious may still be protecting emotional wounds from the past. Inner child and self-sabotage are deeply connected because the fears we carry as adults often began in childhood. This blog will break down common self-sabotaging behaviours and how inner child therapy helps release them from the root.
The Inner Child’s Fear of Mistakes you keep delaying that project, avoiding that decision, or postponing action altogether. Underneath this habit lies a deeper fear: “What if I fail?” or “What if it’s not good enough?”As a child, if you were judged harshly, constantly criticised, or punished for mistakes, you may have learned to avoid risk altogether. Procrastination becomes a defense against the fear of failure. Inner child and self-sabotage healing helps revisit these childhood moments and release the emotional charge behind them — so you can take action with confidence instead of fear.
Read: 5 Signs Your Inner Child Is Wounded (And How It Shows Up in Adult Life)
When Your Worth Depends on Doing Everything Right you strive to be the best, yet never feel like it’s enough. You constantly raise the bar for yourself and fear making mistakes. This perfectionism may have its roots in childhood, where love or approval was conditional — only given when you achieved something or behaved “just right.”Inner child and self-sabotage work reveals how the child within tied self-worth to performance. Healing that part allows you to feel valued simply for being — not just for achieving.
“What If I Shine and It’s Not Safe?”You want success, but when it comes close, you freeze or back away. You might avoid taking the next step, turn down opportunities, or feel anxious when things go well.Fear of success is a common form of self-sabotage, and it often stems from conditional love, criticism, or a lack of emotional safety in childhood. You may have learned that shining too bright came with punishment, rejection, or jealousy. In some cases, you may have witnessed a parent become highly successful — and watched how it led to stress, isolation, or negative consequences for your family.The inner child begins to associate success with danger. Inner child and self-sabotage healing gently helps rewire this belief so that success no longer feels threatening — but empowering.
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The Habit That Hides Your True Self you say “yes” to things you don’t want, keep others happy at your own expense, and feel guilty setting boundaries. This is often not a personality trait — it’s a protection mechanism.If, as a child, you only received love or attention when you were “good,” obedient, or useful, people pleasing becomes a way to stay emotionally safe.
Through inner child and self-sabotage healing, you reclaim the right to express your needs without fear of rejection.
Self-sabotage isn’t laziness or lack of willpower — it’s the inner child trying to protect you from perceived danger.
These subconscious patterns form early in life, long before you could understand or change them.Inner child therapy works by revisiting those formative memories and healing the unmet emotional needs at their core. Instead of fighting your behaviour, you begin to understand it — and from that place, lasting transformation begins.
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Some of the energy healing therapies which we offer are reiki, pranic healing, past life regression, theta healing, redikal healing, family constellation, akashic records reading, astrological healing, inner child healing, hypnotherapy, tarot reading, numerology, astrology and many more. The basic tenet of all these therapies is that the human body is self healing and a person needs to be treated and not the disease.
They work on the cause of an ailment rather than the symptom and are more holistic in nature. It uses body’s own power to heal. These theraies are execllent ways to become aware of why you are facing a particular challenge and start healing from the root cause
