When your inner child is wounded and traumatized you feel less positive emotions and tend to be dry and your social interactions become not authentic.
You need to do something you loved doing as a child to connect with your inner child and make him feel safe, for me genuinely dancing was it. im now communicating with others more on a deeper level, and people started to like me more and people mentioned how my personality completely changed for the better.
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sadly, i don’t remember what that “thing” i loved as a child was……………or i would do it by now.
It works and that’s amazing, but you don’t need to talk about a inner child to explain it, it can be even counterproductive for someone because there are things that maybe liked us when we we’re children, but nowadays no
What about when you are numb to emotions as a whole, people see anger where there is focus, people also see confusion where there is annoyance. To illustrate I am constantly in a state of hyperfocus for one thing or another courtesy of my ADHD and am consequently seen as angry when I am usually very excited which is the polar opposite of anger. Sometimes I am disorganized in chaotic settings and I get annoyed with the chaos and this is seen as me being confused like no I know what is happening I am just annoyed about how chaotic this is.
This being numb to emotions thing is the root of all my social issues and well your advice would do absolutely nothing in fact it does absolutely nothing since I still do that activity even today!
For me it’s learning to stand up for myself and working out. I remember I felt so weak and powerless back then. **Never again.**
Someone has gone to or read about internal family systems therapy. Agree with your assessment. Your inner child is curious and spontaneous, suppressing that makes us rigid and afraid. Happy relationships require curiosity and a sense of fun that only your inner child has.
How are you working to overcome these issues. That info will maybe help OP.
Can we stop using these bullshit spiritualist terms? Just accept and improve yourself, that’s fucking it. No need to be “philosophical” with “accepting your inner child” and “emenating good vibrations” or whatever buzzwords spiritualists decide to use that week.
No, you don’t need to embrace your inner child, bevause there is no inner child, it’s just your memories of your childhood. You can process and accept them, bit the “inner child” as used by spiritualists doesn’t exist.
How does this healing works?
You need to find things you liked when you were a kid?