Hey, Hey guys welcome back to preview alliance. This is Sarah and Whitney. We are so excited about today and we're going to talk about our inner child.

I feel like this is something that prepares you for motherhood to even know about this topic because

motherhood, our journey to it, pregnancy, postpartum, it will bring out our fears, our past traumas, basically our attachments

to things we didn't even know about.

So you may be like, okay, what is inner child? Yeah. So inner child is what we call it is a modality that we can utilize in therapy and if you look it up on YouTube you can look up inner child or internal family systems by Dr. Richard Schwartz he is kind of the

founder creator of this

your therapist does a guided meditation with you and during this time your eyes are closed so you're kind of having mental imagery

if you want to think about it like that And during this your inner child can be anywhere

between like preschool kindergarten age could be like an older elementary school

age so maybe like eight or nine years old could could be preteen, it could be your high school

version of you, could even be college version of you, but it is some younger

version of you, a past version of you. And what you're doing is you're actually

wanting to connect with that part of yourself. Okay. Because some of the things

that we do, some of the things that we have a fear about as adults are rooted into our childhood

and we honestly don't understand that connection till we go through this.

So it's like, I can relate to like there was,

so say if your dad left you

or there was a super traumatic to you or event right in your life that happened say when you're like eight or nine and maybe you have a you feel like people are always going to abandon you or leave you.

And you're like now as an adult or a mom pregnant

and you have this fear.

Yes.

And you're like, where is coming from?

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