Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast.

I'm your host, Josephine Hartman.

I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher,

driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within.

To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com.

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I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while.

Now, on to the episode.

Before we begin, I wanted to clarify that this episode will address issues of childhood loss,

as the title implies, potentially including childhood,

emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. I won't go into these topics in detail. I'm going to

tread lightly and gently to avoid triggering anyone unnecessarily and also to steer our conversation towards what we can do

to heal on a spiritual level because that's where my area of expertise lies. But I just wanted you to

know in advance before we dive in that we're going to be exploring some of this tender territory.

So you can make the decision for yourself if you want to stick with me for this episode

or skip it, which is absolutely okay either way.

So with that said, I'd like to speak to you today, not just to you, but also to your inner child,

to the part of you that is perhaps carrying some feelings of grief or sadness about

childhood losses. And these losses could be anything that was lost during your childhood or even anything that

you feel you didn't get during childhood, but really needed. So some examples of these losses.

These can range from the seemingly small or minor or what might look small to someone looking in from the outside,

like losing your first hamster or goldfish to much more life-altering things like losing a parent or a sibling or a home or moving to another country or losing

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