Coaching practices for How Do I Heal My Inner Child and the Trauma They Absorbed

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• I can feel there’s a young, hurt place in me that everything else is built to keep buried, and part of me wants to finally turn toward it
• Something scared my child
• There’s one specific scene from when I was small that I can still feel in my body, and part of me wishes I could step back into that moment and do for that kid what nobody did
• When the scared, ashamed part of me shows up, my first move is to snap at it to grow up
• I want my child to carry a solid sense of who they are even when I’m not there to remind them

Practices that may help

1. Meeting exiles (with care)
   Gently turn toward the wounded, exiled parts that protectors work to keep hidden.
   Internal Family Systems (IFS), Made Practical
2. Name it to tame it: tell the story of the big feeling
   Help the child narrate what happened and how it felt — storytelling is brain integration.
   The Whole-Brain Child (Siegel & Bryson)
3. Imagery rescripting for schema memories
   Revisit a difficult childhood memory in imagination and rewrite it so the child’s needs are met.
   Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs
4. Self-applied limited reparenting
   Treat the vulnerable child mode in yourself with the care and limits that childhood should have provided.
   Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs
5. Build the child’s inner wealth narrative over time
   Consistently reflect back who the child is becoming, not just what they’re doing.
   The Nurtured Heart Approach (Howard Glasser)
6. Witness the exile fully before any release
   Let the wounded part show you everything it has been carrying — without rushing to fix, resolve, or move on.
   IFS Unburdening, Made Practical
7. Interoceptive noticing in movement
   Attend to what a movement actually feels like from the inside, rather than how it looks from the outside.
   Trauma-Informed Yoga: Movement as a Path to Safety
8. Identify and meet the underlying unmet need
   Behind every schema is an unmet childhood need; learn to provide what you needed, in a healthy way, today.
   Schema Therapy: Healing Early Maladaptive Beliefs
9. Compassionate reframing of the core belief’s origin
   Understand how the core belief made sense when it formed, as a first step to loosening its grip.
   The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress
10. Listen empathically and validate the feeling
    Reflect the emotion you see accurately before you do anything else.
    Emotion Coaching (John Gottman)

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