Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 4, Issue - 8, 1 February 2020 | Page 5

Inner Child Work: Four Healing
Techniques to Rediscover Your Original
Innocence
No matter how big or small,
almost all of us experienced
some kind of trauma as
children. These traumas could
vary from having your
favourite stuffed toy thrown in
the trash, to being abandoned
by your best childhood friend,
to being physically or
emotionally abused by your
parents.
Inner child work is a vital component of soul work because it reconnects us
with a wounded element of ourselves: the child within. When we reconnect
with this fragmented part of ourselves, we can begin to discover the root of
many of our fears, phobias, insecurities and sabotaging life patterns. This is
where the true healing happens!
Likely, you’ll be surprised by what you discover through inner child work.
Instead of simply looking at a symptom of your pain, you’ll go right to the
core and reveal when a fear, phobia or certain life pattern first began.
We’ve previously written about  reconnecting with your inner child  in the
past, and how childhood trauma impacts you on a physical, emotional,
mental and even sexual level. In this article I want to expand on some
powerful healing techniques that I’ve used before to soothe this delicate
place within us.

Types of Childhood Trauma
Firstly it’s important to understand that there are different types of childhood
trauma. These include the  physical (including sexual), emotional and
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