The Inner Child's Champion

Within most of us, there is a wounded Inner Child. We stared ignoring our Inner Child as we aged and had too many responsibilities to spend much time on fun. 

Other people never grew up and continue to allow their Inner Child to control their life and dictate their activities. Both groups of people miss out on the positive qualities of our Inner Child.

What our Inner Child needs most is a champion who loves and cares about him/her. 

This champion will insist on considering the Inner Child’s needs, feelings and opinions in the choices we make throughout the day; and will validate our honest feelings and lament wounds caused by abandonment, deprivation, abuse and shaming behavior by the significant others in our life.

Our own Inner Parent and Inner Adult are the best candidate as our Champion. Our Inner Parent is the conglomeration of every parenting style we learned from adults as we grew up.

The most common styles are Authoritarian, Permissive and Nurturing. Our goal is to learn to be a nurturing parent to our Inner Child.

The Inner Adult is the adult we are now, and is often the referee, and the voice of reason in the disputes going on in our mind between the Inner Parent and Child. These champions can dialogue with our Inner Child at any time day or night.

We come to the aid of our Inner Child when activities, situations and interactions with other people cause insecurity and fear to threaten us physically, mentally or spiritually. We stop them from further crippling our Inner Child.

Prayer:

Father God, You made us as complex individuals (fearfully and wonderfully made) and I am so grateful that You allowed us to understand why we have such contradictory feelings and thoughts and how to integrate our ego states in order to be complete in You. 

You bring Your joy and peace to our life by uncovering the lies Satan planted in the trauma of our past and speaking Your truth, which never fails to set us free. We give You all of the praise and glory now and forever.

Thought for the Day:

I vow to nurture my Inner Child through my Inner Parent and Adult, so that I can become an integrated person and not fight with or abandon myself for the rest of my life.