
Childhood
In the Realm of Relationships & Lineage
1: Reimagine your childhood through guided meditations and visualizations, exploring memories and forgotten moments.
Books ๐
- Homecoming: Reclaiming & Healing Your Inner Child – by John Bradshaw: step-by-step process of exploring the un๏ฌnished business of each developmental stage helps us break away from destructive family rules and roles, freeing ourselves to live responsibly in the present
- The Child in You – by Stephanie Stahl: guides you, step-by-step, through her therapeutic method to peel away layers and reconnect with your inner child – both the shadow child, representing our deepest insecurities and the part of our self-esteem that is injured and unstable, and the sun child, representing our greatest joys and parts of our self-esteem that remain positive and intact.
- Inner Child Healing & Recovery Workbook – by Oliver Belmont: This workbook offers a loving and compassionate space to explore your childhood and heal past wounds. Powerful techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to dissolve limiting beliefs and behavior patterns.
Podcasts or AUDIO ๐ง
- The Inner Child Podcast: Gloria Zhang shares weekly tips & tools to go from toxic to healthy relationships, heal childhood trauma, and manifest an abundant life.
- REBIRTH Audio Meditation: A Guided Meditation to Be Reborn, Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs and Childhood Trauma. Enhance Inner Child Work, Shadow Work, Therapy and Reparenting.
2: In a guided meditation, gently connect with your child self. Notice their appearance, their surroundings, and what they may need from you.
Podcasts or AUDIO ๐ง
- REBIRTH Audio Meditation: A Guided Meditation to Be Reborn, Free Yourself from Limiting Beliefs and Childhood Trauma. Enhance Inner Child Work, Shadow Work, Therapy and Reparenting.
- Reparenting Guided Meditation – Deactivating Triggers: 20-min meditation on Insight Timer. This meditation includes affirmations, gentle breathwork, and guided visualization.
- Guided Reparenting Check-in: 14-min meditation on Insight Timer. Gentle and helpful.
Video Guided Meditations ๐ฆ
- Inner Child Healing Meditation on YouTube: 20-min with calming music, soothing voice and visualization.
- Guided Meditation – DEEPLY EMOTIONAL Inner Child Healing: 40-min calming meditation, emotional and visualizing session.
- Ho’oponopono – Inner Child Guided Meditation by Dr. Ihaleakela Hew Len: 20-min powerful meditation using the Hawaiian Ho’oponopono practice.
3: Learn about reparenting yourself.
Books & AudioBooks ๐
- Reparenting Your Inner Child – by Nicole Johnson: Gentle guide presents an integrative approach that merges inner child work with self-compassion techniques to help you โreparentโ the wounded aspects of yourself that were lost, frozen in time, or traumatizedโso you can start moving toward the life you were meant to live.
- Reparenting Your Inner Child – AUDIOBOOK
- Healing Your Wounded Inner Child – by Amelia Fellows: A comprehensive guide to understanding, reconnecting with, and nurturing the part of you that has been longing for love, validation, and care. Can help you break free from the patterns of the past and create a future where you feel safe, whole, and empowered.
- Healing Your Inner Child Workbook AUDIOBOOK – by Natalie Brooks: exact steps that took the author from drowning in the aftermath of childhood trauma and anxious attachment to reclaiming the inner child, setting boundaries, and achieving emotional healing.
Podcasts ๐ง
- Reparenting Podcast with Melissa Maouris: invites you into the inner work that transforms everything, because we canโt change the world without first changing ourselves. Hosted by an experienced reparenting counselor. Helps you build emotional intelligence, self-leadership, and radical self-trust.
- Reparenting Daily – Meditation Podcast: short daily meditations that train your mind to reparent yourself.
4: Consider finding & working with a therapist or counselor who specializes in attachment work or in healing developmental trauma.
Therapy Directories & Resources ๐
Remember – everyone needs help sometimes. If you feel professional therapy or counseling might help to support you moving through and beyond traumatic experiences, then please take some time to seek and reach out to local practitioners near you. Search online using the language “trauma-informed counseling near me” or “trauma-informed support group near me”
- For the United States: use the Psychology Today search engine and filter for trauma & developmental trauma specialties.
- Trauma Therapist Network: find trauma-informed therapists and resources for therapists in the US and Europe.
- Somatic Experiencing Practicioner Directory: International search engine for this type of body-based therapy.
- SEARCH ONLINE: “Developmental trauma therapy near me” or “childhood trauma counseling near me” to look at options in your region. Take your time to find the pathway that is appropriate and right for you.
