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Nurturing your inner child is about acknowledging and caring for the emotional needs that may have been unmet during your childhood. It involves fostering self-love, self-understanding, and self-compassion. This can be done through practices like mindfulness, meditation, journaling, and affirmations. Connecting with your inner child can help you heal past wounds and create a more loving and supportive relationship with yourself. It's important to take the time to feel your emotions fully and provide the comfort and support to yourself that you may have needed as a child. Remember, it's okay to reach out for support from others when needed, and as a therapist, it's important to prioritize self-care and self-compassion.

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 .