Understanding the Inner Child. It happens to all of us- we get triggered. Some seemingly random event happens, and we go into this crazy emotional meltdown, or blow up, or whatever you want to call it. And part of us thinks, “Whoa! Where did that come from?” like we didn’t even know that we had such strong feelings about- what? What is it that brought on this out-of-the-blue upset? Whenever circumstances trigger a strong emotional reaction, stronger than those circumstances warrant, we can recognize our inner child is involved.  If we do this without self judgement we can actually take charge and lead the child out of difficulty.  We have to use the reaction itself as a wakeup call.  And we have to accept that are not our idealized image with humility and grace rather than self judgement and self-criticism.

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