It is very difficult to tell a logical, cognitive story about your inner child. The child within is so deeply feeling and illogical. She felt everything viscerally in the body first — visual impressions, colours, sounds, emotional fragments, and sensations — and then, only after the age of seven, did she start creating a narrative from her logical mind.

Facilitating Your Self-Discovery ​Depth psychotherapy, as I offer it, emphasizes facilitating your self-discovery. Through a dedication...

We are trained early to avoid emotional suffering. Emotional suffering comes from the dishonouring, denying, or alienating of our authentic self. Emotional pain is part of our human condition, and it feels like, "Something is really wrong. I feel like I am going to die with pain. There is no way out. Nothing works." 

The foundation of deep inner child/emotional healing is being able to reset your nervous system to a calm state at will. This takes determination and practice, but the more you interrupt fight, flight, freeze and fawn patterns, the more you will know that you have the power to regulate your nervous system. You might be spending too much time in a state of nervous system activation. You might even feel locked into a state of fear, characterized by fight-or-flight, freeze, or f