Chp. 2 - am i the asshole?

In Chapter 2, I share my experience of meeting my Inner Child for the first time. This is a crucial step in Shadow Work and necessary to practice unconditional love and emotional healing.

We need to be able to conceive of a part of us that is not all powerful (unlike our Ego that wants to believe it’s all powerful). We need to be able to interface with the part of us that knows it’s been hurt and feels those things vulnerably.

We can’t alchemize energy solely by thinking about it. We have to feel all energy in its entirety to heal what feels broken and hurt. The Inner Child aspect within us allows us to do this.

Thus far up until this point, I didn’t even know my Inner Child existed. My Ego self was derogatory and hurtful. Self criticism and self blame was the narrative of my Inner World. Until I met her. Once I saw her, this precious, vulnerable, innocent part of me, I just couldn’t go back to treating her (myself) in such a cruel way.

This was the beginning of my healing journey and the first aspect of my Shadow (the part of me that I had suppressed into the subconscious and was not aware of) that I got in touch with.

You can watch me walk through the meditation I did to meet my Inner Child in the video below!