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Who Can Benefit from Inner Child Work?
Personal Growth, Self-Compassion, Self-Reflection Hope+Wellness Personal Growth, Self-Compassion, Self-Reflection Hope+Wellness

Who Can Benefit from Inner Child Work?

Inner child work isn’t about blaming or hating your family. It’s about identifying needs you had that weren’t met and wounds you suffered that have yet to heal. It’s about you finding the spots where you need extra care and giving it to yourself, not about condemning the relationships you have in your life.

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3 Things Your Inner Child Needs to Hear from You
Personal Growth, Resources, Self-Compassion, Self-Reflection, Coping Skills Hope+Wellness Personal Growth, Resources, Self-Compassion, Self-Reflection, Coping Skills Hope+Wellness

3 Things Your Inner Child Needs to Hear from You

Have you heard the phrase inner child before? Do you know what it is? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like! It’s the childhood versions of yourself that you carry with you now. Think about it: as you age you don’t lose those past selves. When you turn eleven, your ten year old self doesn’t stop existing. She’s just now tucked away in the heart of your eleven year old self!

But what does that really mean?

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6 Journaling Prompts to Help You Examine Your Relationships
Relationships, Self-Reflection Hope+Wellness Relationships, Self-Reflection Hope+Wellness

6 Journaling Prompts to Help You Examine Your Relationships

It is a strange and scary time right now.

With the spread of COVID-19 many of us are worried for our own health, worried for the health of loved ones, and we’re all facing a huge shift in our daily lives. Whether it’s due to increased professional stress (both increased work for essential workers, and loss of work for non-essential folks), health stress, or personal stress from self-quarantining–we’re all facing big life changes now.

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Hope+Wellness is a mental health practice specializing in the treatment of depression, mood, stress, and anxiety in kids, teens, and adults. This is a blog about living well and finding meaning and purpose in the face of difficult challenges. This is a blog about finding hope.