EP15 Inner Child Work and Sobriety

This week on Empowered Sobriety, Lindsay Fano and Abby Gerber talk about Inner Child work as a tool that we both use in our personal development work, in our sobriety and in our coaching businesses.

Abby & Lindsay break down inner child work and explains what the concept of inner child is. Abby shares her own experience working with her inner child through her work. Abby speaks about her awareness of this in her family lineage. Emphasizing that this is not about BLAME, this is about the healing that is happening and how this is an opportunity to repair. Abby & Lindsay provide numerous amounts of examples of how this has showed up for each of them in their life and how the healing process has helped them in their lives. There is so much wisdom in this episode! Reference to Preston Smiles, "you cannot intervene in a world you cannot see."

Take aways:

• Find a photo of you as a child and place it somewhere in your space that you can see everyday. Acknowledge her/him each day. Let your inner child know you are with them. If you do not have a photo of you as a child, draw a picture, feel free to use colored pencils, crayons or a pencil. Get creative and just let it flow, this may take time to drop into but over time this can really help you connect. You can also write to your inner child on a piece of paper with your dominant hand. Then you can answer the questions writing with your left hand. This is a huge opportunity for connection.
• Validation and Acknowledgment. Validate your own experiences and how you felt as a child. Sometimes you will be able to visualize your inner child through meditation or you can feel them in your somatic body. The memory is just energy moving through you. This is not about fixing anything that they are experiencing or feeling. This is about validation and permission to feel the depths of what is present.

• This is all about connection!

Resource: Home Coming - Reclaiming and Healing your Inner Child by John Bradshaw Follow us on Instagram @empoweredsobrietypodcast and email us at empoweredsobrietypodcast@gmail.com for comments or questions. We would love it if you could take the time to leave us a rating and review!! If you’d like to be coached by us or to be a guest, please email us!