Your Inner Child Is Not the “Younger Version” of You
WITH LOVE, DANIELLE
Danielle LaPorte
4.9 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today is Part 2 of the 3 part What In the Woo? Series—offering a fresh perspective on how to work with the term “Inner Child.”
The Inner Child is not your younger self—it’s the wounded, emotional, shadowy part within, asking for healing.
Your Inner Child isn’t you when you were 8 years old. Inner Child is a really effectual term for the part of us that hasn’t healed yet—the wounded self, the fragmented self. Interchangeable with the ego or shadow self.
The part of you that gets triggered, goes into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn? That’s your Inner Child asking for attention and love.
The gift of the Inner Child is that they’re always pointing to what’s unresolved within us. Anxiety attacks before big events, losing your phone while hustling, getting sick when you’re pushing too hard? Those aren’t accidents—they’re calls for compassion, not "tough love."
True spiritual growth happens when we hold space for our Inner Child reactions—gently, lovingly, without judgment. Reparenting our unmet needs into creative power... and that’s Inner Child work.
In this episode:
- How the Inner Child represents your unconscious self
- Why Inner Child healing transforms emotional triggers
- How self-sabotage moments are really spiritual SOS signals
- The power of gentleness vs. tough love
- How to spiritually grow up through reparenting
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- What in the Woo? 3-part podcast series → Subscribe to WITH LOVE, DANIELLE.
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- Join the Inner Child class inside the Heart Centered Collective
- Catch up on Part 1 of the What In The Woo? Series: Are you ego’ing? What IS the ego? Do you DO it, or does it do you?
- Next week: A look at “following the money” for Mother’s Day. Subscribe so you don’t miss it.
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| 0:00.0 | My loves, this is part two in a little three-part series I'm doing called What in the Woo? |
| 0:08.5 | I would like to offer possibly a fresh perspective on how to work with the term inner child. |
| 0:15.1 | I will probably be talking about inner child work for the next 15 to 20 years. Not everyone agrees on |
| 0:24.0 | inner child terminology, but this is the approach that I've been taught and that I resonate |
| 0:30.3 | with the most, and I've seen its efficacy, its resonance with thousands of my readers and in our heart-centered collective. |
| 0:42.0 | So it goes a little something like this. The inner child is a symbol of your unconscious self. |
| 0:51.0 | So your inner child isn't you when you were eight years old. |
| 0:55.5 | That's just you when you were eight years old. |
| 0:57.6 | Your inner child is just a really effectual term for the part of us that hasn't healed yet. |
| 1:05.4 | You could also call it the wounded self, the fragmented self. |
| 1:10.3 | It is interchangeable with the ego self or the shadow |
| 1:14.4 | self, the stuff in the basement of your psyche, also known as the seemingly excessively needy |
| 1:22.3 | part of ourselves. Sometimes we judge ourselves to be needy and we're not. |
| 1:29.1 | We're legit and we're healthy. |
| 1:31.1 | It's the hyper-emotional part of ourselves. |
| 1:33.7 | Metaphysically speaking, the inner child is part of our lunar nature, our moon energy. |
| 1:42.1 | So think watery, emotional, shadowy terrain, right? Feelings, the place of feelings |
| 1:51.1 | and emotions. The part of you that gets triggered, the part of you that goes into fight, flight, |
| 1:57.2 | freeze, or fawn, that would be your inner child. And they are asking for |
| 2:02.4 | attention and love. Of course, there's a gift, just like there's a gift in all the shadow. |
| 2:08.6 | The light is to be found in the darkness. The gift of the inner child is that it's always pointing |
| 2:15.1 | to what's unresolved inside of us. It's very handy. How does the inner |
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