Your Inner Child: A Complete Guide to Joy & Healing: Inner Child Series, #6

By William G. DeFoore Ph.D.

This inner child compilation is your complete guide to emotional healing, joy, and creative expression. Here you will find Dr. DeFoore's books, Nurturing Your Inner Child, Your New Inner Child For Women and Your New Inner Child For Men.

 

You'll start with the healing and nurturing necessary to launch into the final phases of expanding joy, love, and creativity. Heal your sexuality, embrace your own inner beauty, and master the art of self-love.

 

This book is based on Dr. DeFoore's 50 years of professional counseling experience, guiding you further and deeper into self-awareness and balanced self-esteem. Throughout his career of helping people, Dr. DeFoore has discovered many powerful and subtle approaches to healing and expanding self worth in his clients. You will get the benefit of his insights and knowledge here.

 

This guidebook will be a resource you return to again and again over the years. It is filled with tools to be revisited and renewed on an ongoing basis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Halcyon Life Enterprises, LLP
• Release date: Apr 7, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215266137

William G. DeFoore Ph.D.

William G. DeFoore, Ph.D. has been a counselor for over 50 years, and is author of multiple books. His emphasis on the deep inherent value of each individual has pervaded all of his work, bringing his orientation into alignment with a positive psychology approach to well-being.

Book preview

BOOK ONE

NURTURING YOUR INNER CHILD

Heal Your Emotional Wounds and Create Lasting Self Love

Part One - Introduction

Introduction

Relaxation Process

Part Two - Visualization Processes

Visualization with Your Wounded Child

Visualization with Your Original Innocent Child

Visualization with Your Own Birth

Part Three - Re-parenting Your Inner Child

Introduction to Re-parenting

Sexual Guidance You Needed & Never Got

Guidance for Your Intelligence & Mental Ability

Guidance for Your Health & Natural Healing Ability

Guidance for Accomplishment & Performance

Encouragement for Your Inherent Creativity

Part Four – Affirmations

Affirmations Introduction

Connecting with Your Inner Child

Your Mind and Your Joy

Your Healthy Sexuality

Loving Other People

Loving Your Body

Your Quiet Time & Journaling

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Introduction

Your inner child is a metaphor, an idea and an image of your emotional, vulnerable self as you were when you were much younger. This child represents a doorway to deep healing, emotional release and joy.

Your journey of connection with this precious aspect of yourself is your key to lasting self-love, which will make it easier and more natural to love and be loved in all of your relationships.

To begin this process, remember how you looked at the age of three or four years and try to get a clear mental image of yourself at that age. A photograph may be helpful, if you have one.

Your inner child lives in your heart, the emotional center of your body. It is helpful however, to picture your child self outside your body in order to communicate more effectively with him/her. There are several phases to the inner child relationship. The first is the healing of your wounded child of the past. The second stage, which lasts the rest of your life, is nurturing your inner child of the present. This article will address both of these skill levels.

This child is not all that you are. You are an adult who has survived a lifetime of risks and hardships, growing and learning along the way. You have a brilliant mind, which you have used only partially because of the limitations of your parenting and the world you live in. There is much more to you than you know. If you are fortunate enough to have already recognized your greatness, you probably know that you are still not through. The closer you come to knowing who you really are, the more you realize how much you have to learn.

Deep inside you, there is a precious and beautiful child. This is the child you were when you were born, and it is still there, alive, inside you, right now.

There are different aspects to your inner child. There is the pure, innocent, open child that was there in the very beginning, and it remains untouched by what has happened to you in your life. When you connect with this child, you are in contact with the healing, love, and spirituality of your true, original nature.

Images of your inner child can also represent ways in which you have been hurt and wounded. These images will appear sad, lonely, afraid or deeply traumatized, according to which memory they are connected with. 

In this book, you will be finding, helping and nurturing the wounded children from your past, in order to reconnect with the innocence, healing and goodness of your original child who you were at your birth.

You will also learn to reconnect with the pure, innocent child that was and remains untouched by painful and harmful experiences, to awaken this joy and beauty within your own heart.

We will start with a relaxation process, then some visualization exercises, followed by affirmations.

Relaxation Process

Find a comfortable position, sit back and close your eyes.

Take a deep, relaxing breath, and feel the tension leave your body, as you settle into a place of self-reflection and healing. Take another deep breath, and be aware that with each breath you take, you become more deeply relaxed and at ease.

Feel yourself drifting, peaceful and relaxed, deeper and deeper into a comfortable, safe place within yourself.

You are even more relaxed now, with each new breath. You find it very natural to drift easily into the quiet, serene realms of your inner self.

Your mind and heart are free from worry, and a warm, peaceful sensation is growing within your chest. You can feel your entire body breathing a sigh of comfort and relief, as you drift further into a deep, soothing peace.

Imagine a circle of warm, soft light at the top of your head. Slowly feel that circle expand to spread across your head and face, soothing and caressing your skin as it gently relaxes all of the muscles in your face and forehead. Now feel the warm waves of relaxation continuing to drift easily and naturally down into your neck, then quietly spreading across your shoulders.

Feel the tension leave your body, as you take another deep, cleansing breath. The mild, comforting waves of relaxation are spreading down your arms and across your chest now, washing away any tension that was there. Your entire torso is feeling more comfortable and relaxed now, as the waves of comfort and ease spread further down your body.

Now your hips and stomach are feeling the relaxation spread and wash through them, bringing soothing comfort naturally and easily into your upper legs, across your knees, lower legs and calves. As the warm waves of relaxation reach your feet, it is as if all of the tension that was in your upper body is leaving through your toes, giving you a general sense of quiet and calm.

Part Two: Visualization Processes

Visualization with Your Wounded Child

Now imagine that you are traveling back in time. Your past experiences that you are entering now, are here with you, in your present memory. You are totally safe and in charge as you travel back to bring comfort, healing and reassurance to your younger self.

Remember a time from your childhood, when you needed help, comfort and love. It may be a time when you were deeply hurt, traumatized and afraid, or a time when you were alone, and felt that you had no one to turn to. As the adult you are today, travel back to that time, that town, and that situation, and calmly, confidently, look for that child that was you, back then.

Approach slowly, paying attention to details as you go. Notice the house, building or room, if you’re indoors, or the surroundings if you’re outdoors. Remember, you’re the present day adult in this exercise, you’re not becoming the child, you’re observing the child. Take your time, and allow the child to reveal itself to you, when it’s ready.

If there is an adult in the memory who is abusive, critical or hurting the child in any way, turn your attention to that adult. With no aggression, just the pure power of right and good, approach that adult, hold up your open hand