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Inner Child Therapy

Getting in touch with the child within our adult beings can be extremely comforting and healing. Have you played with your child today?
Create Your Own Inner Child Doll
Sewing instructions for making an adorable inner child doll.
Being A Caring Parent To Your Inner Child
Process for parenting our inner children by listening to their fears and insecurities.
Playing With Your Hands
Using your hands in some form of play activity is one of the best ways of communicating with that child who resides within.
Recess for the Soul - Product Review
Bernie DeKoven -the DeepFun Guy- has gifted us with an audio CD filled with a works of "healing" and "pretend."
Square Pegs - Learning How To Fit Into A Round World
We weren't all labeled as the cooties, nerds, or geeks, but some of our actions or personalities were looked upon as different.
Reaching and Releasing the Child Within
The following is an excerpt from a healing guide developed by Reiki Master/Teacher ElfinMajik during her own personal inner journey to reach, release, and heal the wounded child within herself.
An Evolving Life Without Regrets
Self-reflection essay - The insecure child inside me does care what others think about her. "What's not to like?" my inner child says to herself.
Characteristics of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Psychotherapist, Jef Gazley, defines PTSD, lists its common symptoms, and explains its effects on an the individual who endured an abusive childhood.
Childhood Imprinting - Hurdle to Wellness
Parental teachings and/or our childhood environments have a way of imprinting certain values and ideas in our minds that often times no longer serve us as the adults we've grown into.
Come And Play With Me
All work and no play makes for a very dull day. Take some time out and return to your childhood playground. Discover how freeing it is to scamper down a slide while sitting on wax paper.
Inner Child Cards : A Journey into Fairy Tales, Myth and Nature
Not the typical "tarot deck" by , Isha Lerner, Mark Lerner, Christopher Guilfoil (Illustrator).
Making Peace With The Little Child Within Yourself
Gail R. Mitchell gives information on how to open up a dialogue with your inner child with pen and paper.
Healing of Pre- and Perinatal Trauma
Article by David B. Chamberlain, Ph.D. - Birth Trauma is Real - "an increasing number of therapists are being privately trained to recognize and work to resolve prenatal/perinatal trauma"
Inner Child Healing Techniques
" The inner child we need to heal is actually our "inner children" who have been running our lives because we have been unconsciously reacting to life out of the emotional wounds and attitudes, the old tapes, of our childhoods."
Loving the Wounded Child Within
Inner Child article along with excepts of Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney. 
Alchemical Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy training with an emphasis on spiritual healing through the use of inner guides and healing the inner child.
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