{"id":7486,"date":"2021-03-15T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacmh.org\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2023-11-02T14:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T21:26:02","slug":"self-care-with-our-inner-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacmh.org\/self-care-with-our-inner-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Care with our Inner Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I want to increase quality of life; this is something I want for myself and something I want to work with others to do for themselves. But it is hard sometimes. It\u2019s often difficult because we have patterns of existing in the world that sometimes keep us from what we truly want and need. Some of those patterns are deeply ingrained and connected to how we grew up. For a long time, I did not want to accept that I could be affected by how I grew up or what experiences I had as a child. I refused to acknowledge that perhaps some of how I engaged myself and the world around me was tied to my past. For me, the past was the past… until I noticed it was showing up in the present. Then I found that I had a choice: I could choose to try to ignore it and stick to the patterns that were no longer serving me well in the present or I could notice, listen, care for myself, and listen some more. I have chosen the latter. Self-care with our inner child can create healing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our childhood shapes us<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
First, I found that in order to change what wasn\u2019t working I had to be able to notice what the patterns were that I was prone to jump into. Much to my chagrin, I had to come to terms with the fact that our childhood shapes us. We may have wounds and we may have joys connected to our childhoods. Looking back, we may realize the outside world didn\u2019t always match up with what we needed at the time. As children, we often adapted to our experiences and built habits and ways of living in the world that stuck with us. Discovering what some of these patterns are that we have built leads to awareness. The more we notice, the more our awareness grows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n