6 Ways to Make Your Inner Child Feel Loved | CBT Counseling Tools
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The content segments discuss ways to make your inner child feel loved and provide insights on how to support and heal your inner child. Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes emphasizes the importance of acknowledging and reconnecting with your inner child, as neglecting or wounding this part of yourself can lead to feelings of depression and unsafety.
To help your inner child feel loved, Dr. Snipes suggests various strategies. Firstly, she advises connecting with your inner child by engaging in activities that you enjoyed as a child, such as swinging on swings or painting. Additionally, she recommends identifying and focusing on five positive childhood memories to foster a sense of joy and nostalgia.
Dr. Snipes also encourages having play dates with your inner child, engaging in activities like hiking or playing games. She suggests having fun dinners once a week where your inner child gets to choose the meal, allowing yourself to indulge in childhood favorites. Furthermore, she advises helping your inner child make friends by suggesting mildly fun activities to your adult friends or engaging in imaginative play with your own children or grandchildren.
In terms of healing and supporting your inner child, Dr. Snipes provides further insights. She suggests pursuing activities that your inner child wanted to do as a child, reframing negative messages, exploring the origins of these messages, and reassuring your inner child that they are safe now. She also emphasizes the importance of reconnecting with childhood memories, even if they are traumatic, in order to heal the wounded inner child.
For more comprehensive information on healing the wounded inner child and processing grief, Dr. Snipes recommends visiting the YouTube channel at allceus.com/IC and allceus.com/wounded-IC respectively.
The content segments discuss ways to make your inner child feel loved and provide insights on how to