Hello, and welcome back to the Self-Hailer Soundboard.

On our previous episode, we introduced the concept of the inner child directly from our

new workbook How to Meet Yourself.

And today's episode, we're going to continue on with the inner child, but more about the

personal experience of interacting with our own inner children and embodying the inner

child itself.

I'm thinking for my own personal experience and imagining that many of you listening

might resonate.

I know for me, when I first started to read about what I was thinking was a really important

concept, this idea of the inner child.

When I thought about kind of embodying the healing journey of acknowledging that I had

this little being inside of me, I felt really weird.

If I'm going to be perfectly honest, it felt really unfamiliar and really uncomfortable

in a lot of ways.

And for those of you who tuned into the last episode, we talked a lot about what the inner

child is and how it's the subconscious part of our mind that for a lot of us contains

our suppressed emotions, our unmet needs, our attachment habits and patterns and addition

of course to our playfulness, our curiosity or intuition.

And ultimately for me, what I've come to realize is that discomfort where that was coming

from was all of the unmet emotional needs that I had accumulated for a lifetime.

I was so disconnected from myself and from my emotions that when I was introduced to

this concept of reconnecting with this being, of course, I would feel nothing but uncomfortable

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