ISSUE 46 | MAY 2, 2025
Your Inner Child is not the “younger version” of you.
Hello Love, I’m in Egypt for another week. So today is Part 2 in my 3-part What In the Woo? Series. I want to offer a fresh perspective on how to work with the term “Inner Child.”
Not everyone agrees on Inner Child terminology. But this is the approach that I’ve been taught and resonate with the most. And I’ve seen its efficacy with 1000’s of my readers and in our Heart Centered Collective.
The Inner Child is a symbol of our unconscious self.
So, your Inner Child isn’t you when you were 8 years old. That’s… you when you were actually a kid in this lifetime.
Inner Child is a really effectual term for the part of us that hasn’t healed… yet!
Aka: the wounded self, the fragmented self. Interchangeable with Ego or shadow self. The stuff in the basement of your psyche.
Aka: the seemingly excessively needy part of ourselves. Hyper emotional.
Metaphysically speaking, the Inner Child is our lunar nature. Watery, emotional, shadowy realm.
The part of you that gets triggered? Goes into fight, flight, freeze or fawn? That would be 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. Handy.
How does the Inner Child bring our attention to what needs to be resolved? Well anxiety attacks tend to get our attention. Getting sick before a big event is a good one. Losing your new phone or banging up your car while rushing to your next hustle, instead of breathing and doing what brings you joy on a daily basis… those “self sabotage” moments are very effective Inner Child moves.
Because all of those challenges and resulting pain… anxiety, fear, loss… require a loving response. Not “tough” love parenting—tough love is an ego trip. But gentleness. Leaning in and listening to what your seemingly illogical and demanding shadow self is saying. Just like a great parent holds their crying little one. No argument, no demands, just unconditional understanding.
Holding space for our Inner Child reactions is how we grow up spiritually.
Reparenting our tantrums and unmet needs into creative power.
And that’s Inner Child work.
The next class in the HEART CENTERED COLLECTIVE is Inner Child Work That Will Grow Your Life: Liberating Perspectives. PLUS 5 easy ways to care for your Inner Child.
I love this teaching topic and I have so much to give you for this.
Love from the Dendera, Temple of Hathor,
P.S. Next week… is Mother’s Day and I’m talking about “following the money”—it’ll make sense when we get there!
P.P.S. There’s something new opening up next week. A deeper layer of this space… more personal stories, more behind-the-scenes, more wisdom we don’t share anywhere else. You’ll still get the weekly posts for free, but if you’ve ever wanted to go deeper—it’s coming. May 9.
More from the What in The Woo? Series:
PART 1: Are you ego’ing? What IS the ego? Do you DO it, or does it do you? (Issue 45)
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