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🌸 How to Reconnect with your Inner Child 🌸

1. If you like singing, choose a song that makes you think of your inner child and sing it to them.

For me, I chose BONVOYAGE by Dreamcatcher. The lyrics make me think of my relationship with my inner child and the fact that I'll eventually have to grow older, leaving her as a past version of myself.

Favourite lyrics from BONVOYAGE (translated from Korean to English):

Even if we're a little apart, we're together

Yeah, maybe you don't, but I love you

Even so, I love you

Bon voyage (x2) Say hi and hug the tomorrow that will unfold for you

2. If you like drawing, take a piece of paper and draw your inner child.

What would they look like?

3. If you like dancing, improvise a choreography with moves deemed "childish" by other people.

Hope that helps!

#inner child #inner child healing

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Please forgive yourself for all the versions you couldn't become. Forgive yourself for the wrong things you said. Forgive yourself for not knowing what you wish you knew by now. Forgive yourself for the darker and shadowed parts of you, that are still just as beautiful. We have to learn to be able integrate all of the parts of ourselves because they are each in their own ways magnetic and beautiful.

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"Oh so we should just eat anything we want??"

Well actually YES but also:

Restricting food Does Stuff To Your Brain. "Restricting" doesn't mean stopping when you're full. I feel like this is what gets misunderstood a lot. It means placing rules and limits on food that supercede what your body is signalling that it wants. Let's use cookies as an example. Restricting would be:

- I can only have cookies when I deserve them.

- I can only have cookies when I'm alone.

- I can only have two cookies.

- I can only have low-calorie cookies.

- I can only have cookies on set days, or so-called cheat days.

- I can't have cookies.

- I can't have cookies in the house.

- I'm bad when I eat cookies.

- Cookies are a bad food and I must compensate for having eaten them.

Whether or not you stick to the restrictions you set, your brain is learning to be an anxious mess around cookies. It might want to avoid anywhere that has cookies. It might feel shame for wanting or eating cookies. It might get exhausted from suppressing the craving and decide to binge. It might go into binge mode every time you eat cookies because you've taught your body that This Will Not Be Available Whenever. It might feel ridiculously important to eat all the cookies while you can.

I know we're all so used to constantly talking about food, diets, weight and bodies, and it's completely normalised to look at absolutely everything you eat and assign it the level of guilt you're gonna feel for eating it, and to brag about not eating this and that, and to announce that you know it's a Naughty Indulgence when you eat anything sweet.

But oh my god, it's such a huge weight off your shoulders to just let yourself eat cookies because you wanted cookies and stop when you feel satiated and know that the cookies will be available next time you want cookies because you don't need to earn them in any way. Because a brain that knows it can have cookies whenever it wants cookies, doesn't crave cookies all the time. Nor does it feel any self-loathing when it does crave cookies.

And I just wish everyone a very chill brain and some cookies

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I think at its most basic, self-compassion is seeing what your needs are and then making sure they get filled. A reminder I need very often!

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Daily Reminder:

What they did to you is not your fault. You did not deserve any of it.

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Reminder There is nothing you could have ever done to deserve the abuse.