For many years, I’ve been on the path of healing my inner child. What does this mean, and how does this apply to you? According to the psychology theory called Transaction Analysis, we tend to take a role of either being as a parent, being as an adult, or being as a child, when we communicate and relate to others. This is true across the board, both professionally and personally. Thus, this is also how we can get stuck in relationship patterns, creating the same type of dramas and dynamic, over and over. I wanted to break free from mine, which often was assuming a parental role towards others, and decided to do so, after my mother had passed away, in 2004. It’s also said in the Bible, that we should be like little children, to be able to enter heaven. Alas, this path has become also about finding faith and living by it.

Healing our inner child, simply means to reclaim and reconnect with our childlike essence and spirit within, and let him or her shine through us. We do this, by tending to our needs, by making our bodies and our homes, a safe and nurturing place to live in, and by setting appropriate boundaries for ourselves, that we enforce. A healthy inner child exuberates joy, curiosity, enthusiasm with a strong will to explore the world. It also thrives on living our passion and meeting with others that feed our inspiration and support us to do so, with a sense of being playful. Most of all, healing our inner child is about becoming our own best parent to ourselves. After doing so, I believe, we also will have healthier relationships to others that will ripple into society, also becoming more empowered and healthy.

More about my journey can be found in my books, with the third one on its way!