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Nurturing your inner child involves becoming aware of your emotions and needs, acknowledging them, and making choices to take care of yourself. This may include practicing mindfulness, meditation, deep breathing, and journaling. It's about becoming your own wise and loving parent, meeting your basic needs to be seen, loved, and understood. You can also use affirmations and connect with your inner child by talking to a picture of yourself as a child in the mirror. Embracing your experiences and feeling your emotions without distraction is also key to this process. As a therapist, it's important to remember that you are human, and it's okay to have days when you need to take care of yourself.

GDL Zahra

And there are tools in this book that could help anybody . So if I'm hearing this right , it's like you want to become aware of the bleeding within yourself because once you have the awareness , then it's now you can take care of it definitely consciousness , awareness , acknowledgement and then making basic choices , like nurturing your inner child that needs help because sometimes we could be just really , really , really tired . We just need to take a nap .

GDL Zahra

But we don't , the inner talk is not even close to that because unfortunately , we are not trained how to do that . We've been I as a therapist did not do any inner child healing with my clients because I wasn't aware of it . So when I learned about it , that how almost every adult clients I have is having bleeding issues from childhood .

GDL Zahra

I mean , but you know , it's , it's just human needs and , and , and we need to handle what's going on and really have a community or people , family , friends , professionals to help us to gain the confidence we need so we could help ourselves when the professionals are not around . And honestly , that's all we've been doing some deep breathing , some repenting , some inner child healing , some prayers , meditation , journaling . It's a combination of , it's like a Disneyland .

GDL Zahra

Now I know when I'm hungry , I know when I feel unloved , I know when I'm tired . So you and I and everybody else , the whole purpose is become your own wise , loving parent , take care of your own basic needs and what is a basic need we all have as a human to be seen to be loved , to be understood , not by others by ourselves . First , it comes from us .

GDL Zahra

I mean , I was um and I'm still not 100% yet , but I'm getting better every day . We talked about affirmations and like looking at yourself , like even putting a picture of like a picture of you as a kid in the mirror and talking to that child and just saying , yeah , like I wasn't ok , but I'm gonna get better every day . And I think , you know , switching up my nutrition , like not drinking coffee , going to like some , some macha maybe , um , because I was having some intense panic attacks , like even driving here , even though it brought me , it brings me so much joy to be here , but it was just , I was by myself and I'm in the car and like all the thoughts start just like flooding me .