Category: Inner Child Healing

People-Pleasing as a Trauma Response

4/22/2022

A young man looking into the camera, not smiling. This illustates that people-pleasing and codependency effect both men and women.

What is People-Pleasing?

People-pleasing is an orientation to others, instead of an orientation to the Self. People-Pleasing is built on a deep, globalized belief that we cannot trust ourselves so we must look to other people in order to know what is acceptable, lovable, and OK.

Befriending Our Emotions: The Road to Self-Trust

3/4/2022

White woman with tattoo smiling at the camera. This represents that Sacred Circle Holistic Healing offers online counseling in Kansas for young adults who have low self-esteem and anxiety.

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Fear of Emotions

Most of us didn’t grow up learning how to relate to our emotions. In fact, most of us didn’t grow up talking much about our emotions at all. But that doesn’t mean we didn’t learn lessons about them. We learned plenty of lessons. Most of them just weren’t consciously or intentionally imparted upon us, and like most things that aren’t consciously and intentionally chosen, the messages we received were shaped by unexamined baggage.

What is Inner Child Healing?

2/18/2022

Young white man in backward hat with tattoos looking into the camera not smiling. This represents that Sacred Circle Holistic Healing offers online counseling throughout Kansas for young adults struggling with low self-esteem.

Photo by Brock Wegner on Unsplash

What exactly does it mean to “heal our inner child?” Is there literally a child living within us that we need to somehow find? And then what do we do when we find them? How do we heal them? It can all seem very mysterious and abstract, but inner child healing at its most basic level is simply the act of consciously working to repair our relationship with ourselves through the intentional practice of radical self-acceptance and self-compassion.

Healing Inner Child Wounds

9/9/2019

An infographic explaininng four different kinds of inner child wounds. This illustrates that Sacred Circle Holistic Healing offers therapy in Kansas to help young adults heal early trauma.

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The Role of Self-Awareness in Healing the Inner Child

The very first step to healing anything is awareness. So believe it or not, just reading about inner child healing and other self-help concepts online, and having light bulb moments about what you resonate with, is an important and impactful step toward healing inner child wounds.