Chapter 2: An open letter to your Inner-Child - Connecting with the Inner Core of YOU!

Today I want you to make yourself vulnerable, I want you to write a letter to your Inner Child, to Love, Care, Forgive, Trust & Believe in who YOU are. I am opening my wounds, so that maybe YOU can too have HOPE for a better future.

Your inner child is that innermost part of you, the "original" you, that still sees and responds to the world as an innocent (sometimes, wounded) child does.

It doesn't really matter if you're familiar with the term or not, though. This open letter to my inner child might be everything you didn't even know you needed to hear.

Inner child work involves addressing emotions and experiences from your childhood — in a sense, speaking with your younger self — so you can find and heal the roots of chronic pain and reoccurring issues in adulthood.

Writing a letter to your inner child is one way to heal your relationship with the past.

It's about bringing the pieces of your past into the light of today so you can see what still needs some kind of closure. Where you've still yet to be seen and heard.

It's walking up to your limitations and extending a peace offering to the parts of you you've never forgiven. The versions of you still trapped by old fear, treading water, barred from ever moving forward.

It's a way to bring tenderness to your tension, to breathe into the forgotten chambers of your heart.

It's bringing together your fragmented self like you would piece together a puzzle, so you can accept yourself in light of your wholeness.

Essentially, it's being a parent to the parts of you that were left behind as the rest of you grew. It's you, giving yourself the affection, attention, and validation you never received.

It's not easy work, sorting through the baggage, the chambers of your heart that have been closed off for too long, and opening those wound are never easy.

Your body remembers even what you've trained your mind to forget. Fear gets stored in your muscles, shame in your cells, grief in your bones. Your heart remembers everything, too. You just need to get quiet enough to hear the truths you've been keeping from yourself... it's enlightening when you do. Whatever you've been through, this letter could be just what your younger self still needs to hear.

As you write a letter to your inner child, your innermost self, you're addressing the part of you that's been broken, malnourished, mistreated, discarded, embarrassed, left out, left behind, you're listening, you're hearing, you're being here for every aspect and season of yourself. Choose an age, you feel you want to connect with and say the things you wanted to hear, which you never did.

I will post my letter to my Inner Child shortly, and hope to read some of yours here as well. Loving ourselves is sometimes the scariest part of healing. God never denies us, and when we continue to hate ourselves, the inner part of who we are, we reject His perfect plan for us. Time to let Go, and let God heal the parts we battle with. Give Him the puzzle pieces you struggling with, and He will piece your life together as if it has never been broken.