Healing Your Inner Child

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

We all have an "inner child:” the part of ourselves that carries the emotions, beliefs and experiences from our early years. While this aspect of ourselves can be a source of creativity, playfulness and wonder, it might also harbor unresolved wounds that affect our adult relationships and behaviors. In this episode, Dr. Hanson and Forrest explore what the inner child really is, how it manifests in our lives, and practical ways to work with this important part of ourselves. They discuss how to identify inner child wounds, demonstrate techniques like voice dialogue, and share strategies for bringing more awareness and healing to our younger selves. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:20: What is the inner child? 7:30: How the inner child shows up in our adult lives 10:40: A CBT-ish way of thinking about the inner child 16:40: Unmet needs, and examples of inner child wounds 21:45: Promoting the positive aspects of the inner child 28:50: How to begin engaging with the inner child 35:30: Shame, and turning toward yourself 39:00: Reparenting 46:30: Voice Dialogue demonstration 1:00:15: Reflections on the demonstration 1:06:00: Other approaches, and reasons you might be having a hard time 1:09:25: Rage and release, looking at pictures, and creating an autobiography 1:14:00: Balancing the inner child's desires with the realities of life 1:20:10: Recap I am now writing on Substack, check out my work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/beingwell. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Trust your gut with Seed’s DS-01 Daily Synbiotic. Go to Seed.com/BEINGWELL and use code 25BEINGWELL to get 25% off your first month. Get 15% off OneSkin with the code BEINGWELL at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpod Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen. If you're new to the show,
0:11.7	thanks for joining us today.
0:13.0	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:15.0	Today we're exploring a topic that's gotten a lot of attention recently,
0:18.0	but also has its roots stretching back to the early days of psychology,
0:23.0	inner child work.
0:24.4	If you're listening to a podcast like ours,
0:26.2	there's a good chance that you've heard the phrase,
0:28.6	inner child before.
0:30.3	It refers to the part of ourselves
0:31.9	that still carries the emotions, beliefs, and experiences from our childhood.
0:37.0	It's a playful, interested, creative part of who we are, a creative part of our personality. But it also might be carrying around some wounds that could be leading to thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that are causing some problems for you these days. Working with their inner child can be very fruitful
0:55.4	for people. It can also be pretty challenging. So today we're going to be exploring
1:00.0	what the inner child really is, how it shows up in our lives, and some practical ways to work with
1:06.0	this part of ourselves.
1:07.4	Whether you're already familiar with this or are just skeptical about the whole idea, I think
1:12.1	there will be something here that you can get some value out of.
1:14.4	So to help us out, I'm joined today as usual by clinical psychologist Rick Hansen. So dad, how are you doing?
1:20.5	I'm great. I wanted to ask you, dad, have you done this kind of work with people in the
1:25.2	past through your clinical practice? I actually don't know. Oh yeah a lot.
1:29.2	Okay. Often it's implicit in that when we reflect on the mind it has both breadth and depth.
1:37.3	So we explore the breadth of what actually is happening in a person's experience right now. and then we can investigate as well down into the deeper
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