S5, Ep 6 Best Friend Therapy: Inner Child - What is inner child work in therapy? How can we access our intuition? Can we meet our needs now?
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Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
We come to the conclusion that inner child work might actually be about learning to trust our intuition and accept our wants and needs exactly as they are, with no judgment, and to give ourselves permission to play in whichever way we find comfortable - even if that looks like a Hippo bag for Emma and a dose of reality TV (rather than a skip along the sand) for Elizabeth.
Inner child work helps us to identify how we feel and what we need, so that we can 'reparent' ourselves as grown-ups, and releases us from the idea that there is a right and wrong way to feel freedom and joy.
What is your idea of fun? How do you like to play? Are you paying attention to the wisdom of your inner child?
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Emma references Lucia Capacchione's book "Recovery of Your Inner Child: The Highly Acclaimed Method for Liberating Your Inner Self" https://amzn.eu/d/5S6v9Er
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Best Friend Therapy is hosted by Elizabeth Day and Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Chris Sharp.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Best Friend Therapy. I'm Elizabeth Day, author and |
| 0:05.8 | podcaster and for over 20 years I've been best friends with a therapist. |
| 0:10.5 | That's me. Hello, I'm Emma Reed-Tarell and I'm a psychotherapist. In my private |
| 0:15.2 | practice I talked to clients about the challenges they face in daily life and |
| 0:18.5 | we work together in a non-judgmental supportive space to increase their |
| 0:22.0 | sense of well-being. And as her BFF I get all the benefit of her expertise and |
| 0:27.0 | wisdom for free. Emma makes me feel better about life but also helps me to |
| 0:31.8 | understand why I act the way I do. Ah, thanks Liz. She's also one of the only |
| 0:37.2 | people allowed to call me Liz. We wanted to open the doors to our friendship and |
| 0:41.8 | throw a light on the therapy we all need in our everyday lives. Each week we |
| 0:46.5 | chat about what's on our minds to get deeper in our minds. Two best friends, one |
| 0:51.7 | therapist, no filter. That's Best Friend Therapy. Welcome back to Best Friend |
| 0:59.1 | Therapy and this week we're talking about something that I work with in the |
| 1:03.6 | therapy room all the time and that I think is just a really helpful part of us to |
| 1:08.5 | get to know and better understand and that is our inner child. Or should I say |
| 1:13.5 | our inner children? Well it's quite tricky when we were doing the gaslighting |
| 1:17.0 | episode because I was like what's the past tense of gaslighting being |
| 1:21.4 | gaslit? Or is it having been... No, is that past participle? No, isn't it past |
| 1:27.4 | participle something? Oh yeah, that's anyway. If you haven't listened to that |
| 1:32.1 | episode yet, do go, have a listen. So we're talking about inner child work. Yeah and I |
| 1:39.5 | think it should be inner child because inner children implies that they're |
| 1:43.6 | just a lot of personality. We've just got like such a quintuplets down there but |
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