You're going to be here. This is a healing inner child meditation for codependency, negative programming, and lack of self-love.

Let us begin by closing our eyes and taking a nice slow deep breath.

Invite your body to relax and settle in.

Take another deep breath nice and slow.

Feel everything begin to slow down. Every muscle begin to unwind and relax.

All your shoulders to fall and relax. Let your whole body go.

fully relaxing into this surface,

wherever you're sitting or laying down. Some of us grew up with unheeled parents or caregivers. They raised us in environments with their own wounding

got in the way of loving who we were while we were growing up. They did their best but still unknowingly damaged us along the way.

This manifested into us as adults when we began to question if we were lovable. Some of us became enablers, letting

our partners, friends, and family treat us badly or in kind.

Because we never witnessed healthy boundaries,

we didn't know how to take care of ourselves,

how to make it stop. So we felt stuck,

lost, or alone without hope. We might have grown up longing for approval or lived with the longing of feeling

approval by our caregivers. But they didn't know how to do that.

So we grew into unhealthy adults,

stuck in the trap of still longing for that approval we never got. As children we wanted our parents love, affection,

admiration and acceptance.

But many of us didn't get those things. So as adults we feel like

something might be wrong with us, like we're broken, unlovable, unworthy, unacceptable.

We may hide behind masks so the world won't find out how we really feel.

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