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Nurturing your inner child involves becoming aware of and acknowledging your own emotional needs, as well as taking care of yourself in a loving and compassionate way. This process can include practices such as deep breathing, inner child healing, prayer, meditation, journaling, and affirmations. Engaging in mindfulness, self-care activities, and connecting with your inner child through practices like talking to a childhood photo in the mirror can also be helpful. The goal is to become your own wise and loving parent, meeting your basic needs for love, understanding, and compassion. It's important to allow yourself to feel your emotions fully and not just put a band-aid over them, as every experience is a learning opportunity, and by acknowledging your own pain, you can have greater empathy and connection with others. As a therapist, it's important to remember that taking care of yourself emotionally is just as important as taking care of others. So, nurturing your inner child is an essential part of your own self-care journey.

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 .