Reparenting Your Inner Child: The Cycle Stops with You: How to Choose a New Story

I’ve heard it said that an emotionally neglected child doesn’t stop loving their parents. They stop loving themselves.

That’s why this section on reparenting is so essential. Because each of us has ways we’ve felt neglected or under-nurtured. Our parents are humans, after all. But when those wounds occur in childhood, we assume we’re the problem.

And we stop loving ourselves.

Until we gain the wisdom to reparent ourselves and break the cycle of generational trauma.

Reparenting Your Inner Child: Finding What You’re Looking for… Inside Yourself: Healing Father Wounds

“Daddy issues.”

We’ve all heard the term. When a woman finds herself in another relationship with a “deadbeat” guy, or a man keeps running into problems with the law, we tend to say they have “daddy issues.”

And while that might be an unfair stereotype, there is a reality to the impact of father wounds.

Reparenting Your Inner Child: Break Harmful Cycles by Honoring Your Inner Child

How can we learn to hear, see, and heal the inner child in ourselves? The first step is to recognize what unmet needs look like when they’re ignored or unanswered for years, if not decades.

Because sometimes our most familiar patterns aren’t choices we’re making but habits we’re falling back into, and we must learn to differentiate between our intuition guiding us and our traumas– both big and small– misleading us.