Childhood Trauma, Healing My Inner Child | writing a letter to my younger self 💌
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- Today, I wrote a letter to my younger self in the hopes I would be able to heal my hurting inner child.
I didn’t have the best childhood growing up, so I dedicated this letter to say the things I needed to hear what I was a kid. Being a sensitive kid (and adult), emotional support was something I needed and it was so rewarding to finally give myself that comfort and support.
We forget that inside each of us, we have an inner child and it’s our responsibility to take care of them. To make sure they’re not hurting and to make sure they’re thriving.
My inner child has been hurting for god knows how long because I ended up bawling after filming this video. I did not know how much she needed this until I started to write. 💌
It’s not our fault that we may be holding onto the events of our childhood, but we owe it to ourselves to be kind and gentle with our inner child. My inner child isn’t going to magically get better and forget everything that happened because of this exercise, but I’m going to make it a priority to take away some of the pain for her. ❤️🩹
If you have childhood trauma or you have a hurting inner child, I’m sorry that you’re hurting. It’s not fair, but don’t be mean to yourself because if you ARE, that means you’re being mean to that wide eyed, innocent kid who didn’t deserve to be hurt like that.
Y’all deserve to be unconditionally loved 🥺
Chapters:
0:00-0:43: what is an inner child?
0:43-2:58: my childhood
2:58-3:46 : importance of inner child work
3:46-5:09: setting up (baby picture)
5:10-8:21: letter to my inner child
8:21-10:08: thoughts and outro
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Such a great video. Please make more videos of you doing activities to heal your inner child. We'd love to see you reaching out to your inner child again and the progress you made to heal your inner child.
That letter made me cry which is something I haven’t done in a long time. It almost felt like it was written by me to me. Thank you.
I’m sobbing!😢❤ So beautifully written. I need to write my letter now, good idea on using your childhood picture. Sending hugs❤
When I saw my picture, the floodgates opened and I was crying my eyes out 😭 Good luck and I hope you have fun with your letter! It might get highly emotional when you do so, but your inner child deserves to hear what you have to say 🥰 Sending you lots of love and support ❤️❤️
@@theflyingarioh thanks you so much hun. Have a beautiful day! 🤗
Thankyou for gathering the courage to share this! It takes a lot of strength to address these issues and be vulnerable with yourself and your inner child, in the first place. But you actually took the opportunity to share it on youtube. My therapist wants me to start writing letters to my inner child and this video has been very very relatable and insightful. Hope you heal from your trauma and get the support, love, acknowledgment and compassion you deserve! Sending hugs ❤
Hey love, thank you for posting this. I am 32 and I have a daughter like figure in my life. Seeing her going through it at 14 breaks my heart. I sob thinking about how tough I was on myself because of the abuse I endured. I don’t want to be hard on myself or anyone else for that matter, especially, a child that has gone through so much already. Now more than ever I think it is time to nurture my inner child and show her that she showed up. I want to be the mom I never had, the parent I needed instead of putting everything on to a literal child who is just trying to learn. I offer all of this over sharing just to say thank you. Thank you for posting this and helping me sit down with love to really forgive myself as a child and as an adult. Love is a journey and the path is dimly lit, but I know to follow the light, and that light brought me here, so again thank you 🙏 😊
I'm grateful that your inner child is getting the love, compassion, and guidance she needs! Healing our inner child can be emotionally taxing because it means we have to face the abuse in order what we need to heal from so it can be a bit triggering, but you're doing amazing!
You're becoming the person your inner child would feel safe around and I'm grateful that the daughter like figure in your life has someone like you in their life. It's heartbreaking to think that there are so many kids who are going through the same thing that we did growing up, but you're offering her a safe safe and you deserve to be proud of your progress and who you are as a person.
I'll be rooting for you on your journey! We got this 🥰❤️
@@theflyingarioh Same lady, absolutely same😍✨😊
I first have give you a massive amount of credit for posting this. Reading your letter to someone has to be tough. Reading your letter to people on social media... Even more difficult.
I am in the process of going through therapy. My therapist wants to go through the process of healing the inner child. I need to write a letter and don't know where to start. This video really does help.
Thanks!
I'm glad it helped! I was wary of reading out the entire letter, but I want to show all aspects of my personal healing journey in the hopes that it helps them feel a little bit less alone in this world. It can get messy and it may feel like you're going backwards sometimes, but you're doing great by going to therapy and starting to heal your inner child ❤️🩹
Let me know if there's anything I can do to support your healing journey!
I saw the title and couldn't scroll past. 17 seconds in (yes I looked at the time stamp) and I am already crying.
I have lived 24 years (25 in two weeks) with a narcissistic mother. My life has been hell, with mental and emotional abuse virtually every day, since I was a young child. I have constant stress and frequent suicidal thoughts/urges… no one understands, even the people I try to explain it to, and that just adds to the frustration. I wish so often that the abuse _was_ physical, just to make things easier for people to understand.
You described everything I feel and think so perfectly that, even though it's your own experience, it's like you were reading from a script I'd written myself.
I'm crying so hard. Thank you so much, Ari (is it okay if I call you by name?). I needed this, and will definitely try it.
First of all, I'm SO sorry you had to deal with a narcissistic parent and their abuse over the years. Being raised by a narc parent is such a complicated and horrible experience that's hard to explain to others who haven't dealt with a narcissist because it's a new level of pain (I was raised by a narc parent too).
The part where you said that you wished your abuse was physical is SPOT ON. Emotional and mental abuse is just as bad as physical abuse, but because we don't have the "proof", we tend to get gaslit into thinking that it's all in our heads. I'm so so sorry you've been suffering alone for so long and even though we have different lives and experiences, I just want to say that your emotions, thoughts, and feelings are completely valid.
I'm just a random person on youtube, but I want to say that I'm so proud of you for surviving this. Healing from childhood trauma, especially when you have a narc parent, is a MESSY lifelong journey, but you deserve to feel safe and loved. You are so much more than what your narc parent says about you. I hear you, I see you, and you are completely valid. ❤️🩹
(Sorry for the long message & ofc you can call me by my name! 💞)
Thank you so much for your kind words. They mean so much to me and are such an encouragement... I'm sorry I didn't have time to respond when I first read (and I'm not on YT often), but I think of them multiple times a day. Just knowing there's someone out there who understands and knows that I'm not making all of this up in my head is _such_ a motivation to not give up just yet. Thank you again-I know I'm not the only person you've helped. God bless you. :) 💕
I cried while you were reading your entry - I can relate so so much like your were talking to my inner child thank you for this video means so much thank you 💜
I'm glad you and your inner child stuck around! It's such an emotional and difficult journey to connect with and heal our inner child, but you and your inner child deserve to feel unconditional love and to be at peace ❤️🩹
Any book/podcast/support group suggestions?
I have a couple of book recs!
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- Running on Empty
- The Body Keeps The Score
- From Surviving to Thriving (CPTSD focused)
While these can be incredibly helpful, I found certain parts to be kind of triggering so remember to take breaks if you find yourself getting overwhelmed! 🫶
@@theflyingarioh thank you! I had to stop with the body keeps score. It provides so much clarity, I’ll re start once I can read it without becoming triggered.
Thank you for sharing this
I'm so glad you were able to connect with my letter! It's so difficult to start and continue your healing journey, but your inner child is worth it and deserves the entire world. ❤️🩹
I hope you're doing well and let me know if there's anything I can do to support you on your healing journey! 💞