Wisdom Rising

How to Heal Your Inner Child with Empowerment & Play

• Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Shantel Ochoa • Season 2 • Episode 6

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What if you could transform your life by simply reconnecting with the joy and creativity of your childhood? Join us for this special episode of Wisdom Rising with Christine Renee and Isabel Wells as we explore how to connect with your Inner Child for healing and empowerment!

The episode explores inner child healing, discussing the difference between the wounded and healed Inner Child, and how our Inner Child related to limiting beliefs, self-worth, and our 'Inner Critic'. Discover how simple acts of self-love and self-care, like revisiting childhood joys, can regulate your nervous system and affirm your inherent worthiness. If you've been feeling called to heal your Inner Child, this episode is for you!

In today's show, we cover:

• Exploring the wounded vs. healed inner child
• Understanding the connection to limiting beliefs and self-worth
• Signs of inner child wounding calling for attention
• Importance of joy and play in healing
• Engaging with creative activities to foster joy
• Guided meditation to connect with your healed inner child
• Overview of Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki course and support offered

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Speaker 1:

It's time to remember your divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine René, isabel Wells and Chantelle Ochoa as we guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week, we'll dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy healing and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners. We are here to help you acknowledge, reconcile and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. Hello, hello and welcome back to another special Friday episode of the Wisdom Rising podcast. I'm your host for today, isabel Wells. In today's podcast, we're going to be diving into inner child healing, exploring the difference between the wounded inner child and how they have a connection to our limiting beliefs and our self-worth and our inner critic, as well as how we can connect to our healed inner child and connect with the energy of joy, fun, play and creativity. Along the way, we bring in the shamanic perspectives of inner child healing and guide you through an amazing healing experience to show that inner child healing doesn't have to be heavy. It can be light and joyful and aligning With that said, I am so excited to share this recording with you. Please note that this is a webinar recording, so any references to links that we put in the chat will be available for you to access at the link in the show notes. Some of those links that we mention are applicable for those of you who are listening to this in January, knowing that our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki course is currently open for early bird enrollment, but only for another two days. Early bird enrollment ends on Saturday, january 25th, at 11 59 pm Eastern time. So if you have been listening to our podcast, following our social media or just tuning into us in the Facebook group and you're interested in the Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki course but haven't taken the leap and are looking for a sign, maybe this is it. Our early bird pricing ends on Saturday. You'll hear more about the course at the end of today's episode, but know that if you're ready to snag early bird pricing and save your seat even if you're not 100% sure you want to commit yet if you book a call with us using the link in the show notes, we're happy to hold early bird pricing for you. So make sure you book a call so that you can get access to early bird pricing if that feels right for you.

Speaker 1:

If you are listening to this in January, know that we have one more workshop coming up in our Wednesday workshop series. On January 29th at 5 pm Mountain Time, 7 pm Eastern Time. We'll be taking you all on a free, guided shamanic journey through the chakras. So if you want to see how all of the things that we've been bringing to the podcast this month connect shamanism, journeying, psychology, chakra healing, energy work, reiki and so much more than this workshop is for you, be sure to click the link in the show notes to register and save your seat so you can get the link to join us live and access to the recording. And, of course, be sure to join us on Mondays over on our Moon Rising Institute Facebook page at 9 am Mountain Time, 11 am Eastern Time, where we go live every Monday to share our thoughts and explore a conversation on different spiritual topics. This coming Monday, january 27th, we'll be diving into the shamanic perspectives of manifesting and abundance.

Speaker 1:

With that said, I hope that we see you at some of our amazing upcoming events. You can also head over to our website, moonrisinginstitutecom to learn more about everything that we have coming up, and be sure to join us in our Moon Rising Shamanic Mystics Facebook group, a community of over 4,000 amazing individuals who are walking this path and doing this work in a supportive, loving way. So if you've been looking for your tribe, come join us over in our Facebook group and until then, I hope you enjoy today's show. Be sure to have out your notebook, because there is so much amazing information included in today's presentation on inner child healing. If you have any questions or want to share your top takeaway, we'd love to hear from you. Feel free to send us an email or connect with us on Facebook, posting in our group or sending us a message.

Speaker 1:

With all of that said, let's go to the show. I am so excited for today's presentation. Christine and I have both been doing our own versions of inner child healing this month, so it feels really pertinent for both of us and this is one of my favorite modules that we teach in our soul rising classes on inner child healing, because there's just there's just such a wealth of information that can go into it, and I've got to tell you I was sitting here an hour before class trying to figure out what I was going to put in today's slideshow presentation, because there's just there's so, there's so much.

Speaker 2:

So what you guys are getting tonight is just a little like tip tip of the iceberg when it comes to inner child healing and I'm so excited and it's still like such a full presentation too, like I went, I just went over it all and I was like there's a lot of content here and we're like, and, as Isabel said, like we're just you're getting just a hint of content here and we're like, and as Isabel said, like we're just you're getting just a hint of the immense work that is possible in this realm of inner child work and I just I love it. I think there's so much possibility and depth here where, if you really allow yourself to sink into the work, it has the fullest potential to do some serious, deep healing work.

Speaker 1:

So welcome welcome to your inner child healing workshop. We are so excited to dive into this topic with you today. I am Isabel Wells, the alchemist here at Moon Rising, and I'm joined with our visionary, our founder, Christine Rene, and we're so excited to dive into this topic with you all today.

Speaker 2:

We are so ready, we're so ready. I think this is one of the most invitation to really witness your inner child and to recognize them and to play with them and so just noticing with your in yourself, why do you can't? Why are you participating? Why are you leaning into this tonight and really feeling your own inner child? Witness you watching this presentation. So we're just already going to start from the very beginning to call in our inner child to be present for this presentation as we work through it and notice them with you, Notice their emotional reactions and notice how they're feeling. How is it to just sit with them and just allow, just allow, just allow that imagination station to come on board a little bit with us right from the get-go?

Speaker 1:

Absolutely. I love that Beautiful. So what we're going to dive into tonight we're going to talk about what is the inner child, the difference between the wounded inner child and the healed inner child, the difference between the wounded inner child and the healed inner child, the connection to our subconscious mind and signs of inner child wounding that are calling for our attention. We'll talk about the different ages that your inner child can show up, as as well as the difference between your inner child and your inner teen, and we're going to be experiencing a healing inner child interaction. So that's, I know, what you guys are here for and really excited for, and we're excited to give you a really empowering, joyful experience that you can bring into your inner child's healing, so that things don't feel heavy. Our inner child healing doesn't have to be heavy and we're really hoping to showcase that tonight.

Speaker 2:

All right, let's dive in who is our inner child? Our inner child is the energetic embodiment of all of our childhood experiences, memories and emotions. So like let that land. It is this accumulation of our history as a child. So when we think of ourselves as a child, what do you notice? Can you remember the range of emotions you experienced and how vibrant life was? What did you like to do? What did you like to play with? How was your life? And when we often do this inner child work, we tend to lean into the wounded inner child. We often think of the wounds that we experience, because our subconscious is built that way to recognize the wounds so that we don't, so that we can can use that experience to stay safe. But there's also a healed inner child. We really want to honor and recognize and support that healed inner child version of us too. So this is going to be a conversation of all of these different aspects of who the inner child is and how can we support our inner child.

Speaker 1:

And I think that last point is so important because when we do inner child work right, when we talk about working with our inner child, a lot of times what comes to mind is that part of ourselves that does feel really small or like they're not enough, or that they're carrying some of those pains or traumas or experiences from the past and they're really crying out for attention. But our inner child is so much more than just that wounded version, and so we really want to bring light to that in today's presentation and conversation that our inner child yes, we have our wounded inner child, but we also have a healed inner child too, and we're going to learn how to interact with them later on in this presentation. So, with that said, who is our wounded inner child? Right, if we have a healed inner child and wounded inner child, our wounded inner child is often what we think of when we think of inner child healing, right? So it's the part of our inner child that felt pain or had an experience that made them feel less than so.

Speaker 1:

Another way that I like to say this is that our wounded inner child is the one that was created. Anytime we had an experience that caused us to deny ourselves. Right, we come into this world like a blank canvas. We come into this world completely open and vibrant and ready for our experiences. And when we have an experience that leaves us feeling like any of these phrases here I'm unlovable, I'm not worthy, I'm inherently flawed, I'll be abandoned if I do this, anything that makes us feel like we are less than whole, less than loved, less than seen, less than nurtured, is going to leave a little bit of a wound in our energy. Right, we can think about as an adult, if we think about all the times that we give away our power.

Speaker 1:

Right, when we're stuck in victim stories. A lot of times those stories have their roots in our inner child, wounding because it's the first time that we hear someone tell us that we're not enough or that we're not lovable or that we're not worthy. It's like scooping away little bits of our energy and those scoops become limiting beliefs, which we'll talk about more in a minute, and little energetic wounds. And so those experiences may lead to beliefs and wounds like I'm not lovable, I'm not worthy, I'll be abandoned if I do X, y, z, or I'll break my family spoken or unspoken right Rules If I do X, y, z that feeling of I'm disloyal or even, on the flip side, I'll outshine other people or I'll make others feel bad. When I excel at so a lot of times for my business owners in the house, if you find yourself feeling if I'm successful, others will fail, that's often a wounded inner child belief.

Speaker 2:

Which lands us at the subconscious mind connection and really understanding that our subconscious mind is forming during that birth to age eight, and so when that time period is happening in our lives, anything that we hear we accept as truth. There is no conscious filter to say, nope, that's not true, I don't accept that, I reject it. The subconscious mind during this developmental phase is just absorbing all of it. It's just a total sponge, and so it gives you the framework for how you see the world. So this is the positive, empowering experience can create empowered belief systems and lead to a strong energy flow. But those difficult experiences challenge our sense of self and cause us to install new limiting beliefs to keep us safe.

Speaker 2:

These are the stories that often become our inner critic in our head and our adulthood and are often at the root of our triggers. So think about what your negative self-talk sounds like and noticing whose voice is it in. Is it a? Was it a parent? Was it a guardian? Was it a teacher, like oftentimes? Their voices are still existing and residing and taking up space. They're there, they're in your head without paying rent. You guys, you know like this is what's going on in our head and it all resides in the healing work for the majority part. From our perspective, when we do this inner child work, we have this ability to to really go in deep and support our inner child, to untangle those limiting beliefs, those inner critics, so that we can step more fully into those empowering experience that lead to our passions and purpose in life.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and this subconscious mind connection is so, so important because, as adults, 95% of our decisions and our actions are subconscious. That's why our subconscious is so important when we're developing as a child, because it's literally forming the framework for how we're going to interact with ourselves, others and the world around us as adults. And so think about it If you've had an experience whether we're talking about like a big T trauma or a little T trauma if you had an experience that made you feel like you're not enough, like you're unworthy, like you're unlovable, that's now become embedded in the structure of how you perceive the world. And so, as an adult, when you're walking around, interacting with your daily life, your brain is now on the lookout for experiences or words or people that are going to prove to you that, yes, you're not worthy, yes, you're not enough. Because that's exactly what our mind was made to do. Right, it's made to keep us safe, it's made to give us a structure, a framework, so that we know what to do and what not to do, which is fantastic.

Speaker 1:

But the problem is that the subconscious mind is faulty. Right, we can take on these faulty beliefs as a child because, like Christine said, everything we hear when we're a child we take on as truth, aka everybody else's opinion of how the world works, of how we fit into the world, becomes our framework for reality. And so, now that we're adults, we have the amazing opportunity and gift to be able to start questioning those stories that we tell ourselves, to be able to start questioning those beliefs that we formed and really look at was that someone else's opinion that I wanted, that I took on as truth, and is that an opinion that I want to continue believing? We get the opportunity to rewire this, knowing that it's a process, knowing that, because this is in our subconscious, it's not like this is going to be. You know, a walk in the park.

Speaker 1:

Sometimes you're going to have those days where you're walking around and something's just off and you don't know what it is.

Speaker 1:

And that's where we can do the work. We can do the meditations, we can do the inner child healing, we can do the shamanic journey If you have that in your practice to open up your subconscious mind and help bring that story forward. Knowing that at the end of all of those triggers is just this little limiting belief, this little faulty story that we're telling ourselves, and we get to do the work, as we're healing our inner child, of saying, hey, there's a different way of seeing this, there's a different way of interacting with the world. Do you want to try it? Right, and this is where we get to bring in that sense of fun and play to healing our inner child. It doesn't have to be hard, it doesn't have to be heavy of like, let's pull up all your stories from the past. It gets to be this easeful, joyful thing of hey, what if we saw the world this way? What if we tried thinking about it this way instead and letting your inner child come along for the ride?

Speaker 2:

Which brings us to the signs of inner child wounding. How do we know that our inner child is suffering? And so here's some of the common signs that your inner child might be activated and calling out for healing, like really asking for support. So if you're constantly disassociating, so that means like you feel like you're floating away, you're leaving some situations that you're in because they're emotionally stressful for you. So you're, you're becoming avoidant, you're dissociating and you're leaving being fully present in your body. If you have blacked out memories, if you have self-sabotaging cycles, if you have intense emotions out of the blue, these often come from your nervous system that has the memories you're, you're storing these memories somatically and so something that you're not even consciously aware of can bring about intense emotions. So the feelings of that you're unsafe, that you're unworthy, that you're inherently flawed, those are inner child wounds. If you have addictive or risk seeking behaviors, that's oftentimes from an inner child wound.

Speaker 2:

If you're feeling lots of anxiety, shame, low self-esteem and trust issues, it probably was cultivated in your childhood and that sense of I need to be perfect, I need, like it has to be perfect. The perfectionism is a childhood wound that's often um where they. It's a way of fawning to like, try to people, please and take care of the situation that hand by making sure everything is perfect so there's no one can come at them with a rejection or judgment or whatever it may be. So the inner child is really trying to speak to us emotionally when these things are happening and it's a choice to go to step back from that trigger, that activation and going. I'm getting curious about why I'm feeling this way. I need to take some time and breathe and recognize what this truly is going on. Where does the healing need occur? It's not just surface level is going on.

Speaker 1:

Where does the healing need occur? It's not just surface level, absolutely so being able to break a little bit of that self-sabotaging or self-shame cycle right when we get into this place, where we're thinking, oh my gosh, why am I doing this again, why am I feeling like this again and beating up on ourselves. We can take a moment to take a deep breath and recognize all of these signs for what they are Just a signpost letting us know. Hey, your inner child is calling out for your attention. Can you take a deep breath and give it the attention that it's looking for, instead of beating yourself up for falling into the cycle again because it's okay, it's part of being human, it's part of doing the work and you can have more than one.

Speaker 2:

You can have more than one inner child is what we mean, right? So oftentimes the inner child who's calling out for help is oftentimes the one that we automatically think of when we close our eyes and try to envision who our inner child is that age. But it's not uncommon to have more than one inner child energy working with us. So, for example, you can have your three-year-old self, your seven-year-old self and your 13-year-old self all going hey, I need love and support.

Speaker 2:

But noticing too that if we engage with the younger age first, oftentimes that heals the later ages as well. So when we do our work within soul rising, we want to activate that youngest self possible first, because oftentimes if we deal with their limiting beliefs, their insecurities, then it will also unfold to the later ages as well. So keep that in mind, even if your 13 year old self is showing up or your 15 year old self is showing up, recognizing that, recognizing who is coming forward for you now asking for support. So when we engage with the inner child, healing allow whatever aspect to show up is going to be just the right one. Know that there's a difference between your inner child's needs and your inner teen's needs. Your inner child wants to be nurtured and seen and taken care of, whereas your inner teen oftentimes wants to rebel or seek justice, or they're frustrated and angry and they just want to be free. Yeah, very different energies.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, and so in that knowing that another way that we can think about this is when we're feeling triggered, when we're feeling activated or we have a limiting belief or story going on in our minds, the inner child that's going to come forward for us to work with is often the one where that limiting belief was first experienced or first taken on.

Speaker 1:

So if you think to yourself of some of the places in your childhood that felt difficult or that felt sticky, oftentimes, you might have an inner child related to each one of those heavy experiences.

Speaker 1:

But what's going to really create the healing is when we have an inner child related to each one of those heavy experiences. But what's going to really create the healing is when we have an open mind and an open heart to get curious about where's the source of that limiting belief, where is this story coming from and, once again, whose voice is telling that to me? Because then we can do the work to start to gently pull through and gently unravel that. But again, knowing that it gets to be gentle, we don't need to go pulling things up just for the sake of healing our inner child. When our inner child is ready for our attention, they're going to come forward, just like when you're an actual child and you need attention. You'll go tell somebody, and so we get to trust ourselves as well. We get to trust our inner child to come forward when they need to come forward so that we can heal in the most gentle and effective way possible.

Speaker 2:

And so we want to remember to be gentle on ourselves. Healing is a process and healing our inner child is a lifelong journey. So noticing that, even within soul rising, we, we step into sacral chakra and and we're focusing on inner child. But it's the month and we have to remind students that it is okay and we give permission and and invitation to take as long as you need so you can revisit this information again and again and again, and there's there's more healing to do so.

Speaker 2:

Our inner child is looking for that love. It's looking for that nurturing energy that they didn't get when they were younger. And so we have this opportunity to reparent them. We get to show up in our adult selves, witnessing our younger selves and offering them opportunities play tea, whatever it is for you and your inner child that they didn't get. And so if that means that they want to go make a mess and that's going to be the most healing possible experience is to throw flour all over the kitchen because in their childhood their mom wouldn't let them make a speck of dirt and lay anywhere Like that's what you do. We get to go in and reparent and witness our inner child having a re-imagined experience so that that piece of themselves that have been hurt, gets to re-experience that, that, that childhood wound.

Speaker 2:

And so the best way to start healing with our inner child is being kind to yourself and in present and practicing that self-love. So even if you're just going and taking your your, your nighttime evening bath or you're doing some other kind of self-love practice, that in in and of itself is nurturing and supportive to our inner child because it's helping our nervous system regulate Right. And I think that's so important of going, noticing and having the awareness of I'm dysregulated right now to I'm regulated and I'm in a good, healthy spot. And so anytime that we're dysregulated doing the self-love work, doing the self-care practices, and we teach so many of these different activating actions in soul rising just for this, like we know that they add up. And when you do more and more self-love and self-care acts, you remember that you are worthy of love, you are completely lovable as you are and that there's no such thing as perfect Right, and so it's an opportunity to continue that healing process. So we let's explore how we can connect with our inner child as another re-empowering healing technique.

Speaker 1:

And before we do that, I want to add that I think that point is this this is the most important thing to understand about inner child healing is that it's not about pulling up the past, it's not about poking at your traumas, it's not about figuring out who to blame and what to do to fix it.

Speaker 1:

It really is just about understanding that when we experience something that we interpret as an inner child wound, it is just a place in ourselves that we have learned to believe is unworthy or unlovable.

Speaker 1:

And so if we can do the work in the present, as our adult self, to prove to ourselves, to show ourselves that we are worthy of love, we are worthy of attention and we are worthy of time, that is as simple as inner child healing gets to be right when we can recognize that we're just looking for that place to feel like we are enough, and, as the adult, we get to prove to ourselves that we can do that, that we can take the time for self-care, even if, as you're doing it, you're sitting there going.

Speaker 1:

Am I actually worth doing this? Is this really okay? And just reminding yourself yes, look, we're doing it. We're taking a bath, we're drinking our tea, we're reading our book. We're going for a walk and the world is not ending. Nobody's yelling, nobody is upset. You're not doing anything wrong, you are taking care of yourself and the universe is rejoicing with you, and that's an incredibly powerful thing to experience and allow yourself to experience as an adult. So if you get nothing else from today's presentation, this is your number one takeaway that inner child healing gets to be as simple as how can you take care of yourself and be gentle with yourself in the present moment and use that as an opportunity to reteach yourself that you are worthy of love, you are worthy of attention and you are worthy of time to take self-care.

Speaker 2:

And so the healed inner child, our inner healed inner child, is the aspect of our inner child that experienced the joy, holds our happiest memories and knows what it's like to be creative and experience life without fear. And I find this really interesting that you know, our subconscious is built to recognize our wounded child first, right. And so sometimes when I, when we're in class and I'm I'm teaching on this and I'm inviting our students to remember a happy memory, this may be difficult, this might not come as easily, and then I'm, I have to offer invitations of what were holidays like? What about birthdays Was it? Did you do anything cool for vacations? Like, just whatever birthdays Was it? Did you do anything cool for vacations? Like, just whatever. Because we're kind of, our subconscious doesn't go to happy memories easily because they're not protective, right, but they do hold so much. They hold such wisdom and so much I um self-awareness of where we get excited Oftentimes, the emotions that we felt during these happiest memories is what leads to our passion and purpose as adults. And so we want to think about your happiest childhood memory and this is where the seeds were planted for our passion and purpose. So recognizing, like for one of my happiest memories as a child is I.

Speaker 2:

I had a neighborhood friend. She lived up the street and she had a kitten and we taught it how to look both ways, crossing the street Right, and there was no other adults around and we are young, we're probably like five years old, and so we've got this cat on a leash and we make it sit down and look both ways. And so we've got this cat on a leash and we make it sit down and look both ways and I just remember emotions of independence and a little bit of rebellion. And you know, like I had these emotions of like I can do anything because I'm teaching a cat out across the street and, to our credit, that cat lived to be 16 years old and it did sit and look both ways and never got hit by a car in a busy city. So you know, check well done.

Speaker 1:

That's amazing. I love that and I love that. This is the aspect of the inner child that we're really going to focus on in this experience of understanding that, yeah, we have our, our wounded inner child and when they're ready for that attention, they're going to call out for it. Right, we talked about some of the signs and symptoms that they're calling for your attention, and it's important to be able to be aware and open to receiving those messages so that you can care for them when they're ready. But we can also engage with our healed inner child whenever we want to, this aspect of joy and play and creativity and experiencing the vibrance of being alive.

Speaker 1:

There's this amazing quote and I'm forgetting the name of the person, but she worked with a lot of different shamanic cultures and she talks about how, in a lot of cultures, if you go see a shaman and you tell them that you are feeling depressed or you're feeling anxious or you're feeling disconnected, they're essentially going to ask you a question that's really similar to when did you stop experiencing the joy of being alive? When did you stop dancing? When did you stop finding joy in the little moments? Right, and this is really the essence of our healed inner child that when we're connected to this aspect of ourselves, they are this unlimited fountain of joy and creativity and passion and all of this that is always accessible to us. And so, whether we step into that by channeling that energy and just going and doing something creative, or we actually invite our healed inner child to come, stand with us and show us the way, show us what they want to do, this is one of the most powerful ways that we can really bring healing, because then we get to show our mind, our brain, our subconscious and ourselves as adults that look, stepping into this healed space, being happy, being joyful. We are safe to have positive experiences, and so every time you do this, you're literally reprogramming your nervous system to accept, to call in, to feel safe when you're having a positive experience.

Speaker 1:

And if we're only focusing on the wounded inner child or if our wounded inner child is really active right, if we had a really difficult childhood chances are our nervous system is not programmed to think that happiness is safe. A lot of times it's programmed to think that happiness comes before something bad. I know this one very strongly in my personal life, and so one of the ways that we can do this, one of the ways that I do this for myself is reconnecting with the healed inner child whenever I can and just reminding myself, taking a moment to have that conscious intention that, look, we're having a positive, joyful experience and it's okay. We're having this amazing moment of creativity and joy and we're safe and that's such a powerful technique to use in your inner child healing.

Speaker 2:

I'm still stuck on my inner cat. I'm not over here having like these aha moments. I'm still stuck on my inner cat. I'm like I'm not over here, having like these aha moments. I'm like maybe that's why I'm a rule breaker and I don't like to do anything by like how you're supposed to and and like I see that in my passion and purpose as an adult. Like here I am with moon rising, shamanic Institute, breaking the barriers, breaking the boxes, like I'm doing all the things and I'm like, yeah, I walked a cat. Barriers, breaking the boxes, like I'm doing all the things and I'm like, yeah, I walked a cat, I love it.

Speaker 2:

So the question becomes what's your happiest memory? What is one of the most powerful ways to practice inner child healing is by engaging with your healed inner child. The essence of a healed inner child is fun and play, so we can connect with them by doing activities you love to do as a child. So think about that. What did you absolutely love to do? And I'm talking about what felt most expansive, what felt most joyful, what felt most exciting for you as a child, and that is something that you would want to engage in as an adult, because even if that's bike riding, and you do that on a regular basis, you're going to find your inner joy.

Speaker 2:

We recently had a student whose inner child wanted to go horseback riding and she used to be an equestrian right Like she. That was like her thing and she hadn't been on a horse in 20 years. And we got to this part of the program she was like I need to get on a horse. And I'm like, yes, you do. And guess what? She is now competing at like 60 years old in horse competitions. And I'm just like, there she goes, she is, she has found her inner joy, her happiness, and her inner child is super happy. So know that, like, profound healing can happen just by activating this side of you, this inner child, sense of who you are.

Speaker 1:

And knowing that in that, when we're doing the activities that we love to do, it's once again reminding ourselves I'm worthy to take the time to do this, because for some of us it might be really easy to call to mind, like for me, I can remember one of my happiest childhood memories is just sitting at the kitchen table playing with Play-Doh. I loved Play-Doh when I was a kid and how that for me, was like this act of creativity and joy. So sometimes it might be really easy to bring to mind oh, that's an activity that I loved to do, and what we struggle with is actually making the time to do it, whereas for some people it might be harder to think about an activity in particular that you'd like to do and we'll talk about that with point number two in just a second. But for those of you who know, who have this thing come to mind right away of, that's something that I really enjoyed, whether it was reading or painting or dancing or biking, or, for me, I love building forts. I build forts as an adult regularly in my house and I have no shame about that, because my inner child loves it.

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Like whatever it is, for you, whatever comes to mind, can you make a commitment to yourself to do it at least once, or for at least 15 minutes one time this week? That's your, your sole assignment, your invitation, your opportunity. From today Can you take 15 minutes at least? Right, take as long as you want, but at least 15 minutes this week to go. Do the thing that comes to mind when you ask your inner child what did you love to do, and notice how you feel after you do it. Do you feel more joyful, do you feel more connected, do you feel more aligned and flowing and happy and creative and all of the things Fantastic. You just did some inner child healing.

Speaker 2:

Absolutely. So we're going to do a practice now of reconnecting with your happiest childhood memory. We're going to do this together. So start by just closing your eyes and recognizing your happy memories. Just go back to the earliest, earliest happy, happiest memory possible. So go ahead and get comfortable, sit in a comfortable seated position, let your shoulders drop, let your feet connect with the floor or energetically see a beautiful cord around the bot your your ankles and directing them down into the earth, connecting down into the earth with all of her memories. She knows your history, knowing that you are safe, safe, safe. We ask that our support team and the spirit will be with us that are guarding angels, our spirit guides, our power animals. They're with us too and they remember. They remember your most joyful inner child memories, and so we're just going to scroll back on that timeline as far as we can go, to the earliest happy memory we can find, recognizing when that is for you, what age you were at.

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Okay, so once you have the memory, once you have that vision of it, I want you first to start as your adult self, witnessing the scene. So maybe you're standing behind a tree or around a corner and you're just peeking and watching your inner child play or having this really beautiful, fun experience. You're witnessing their joy. You're witnessing the fullness of their expression. They might be getting dirty, they might be being loud, they might be being expressive or they might be so into whatever they're working on. They're super quiet and focused. Whatever it is for you is completely fine. There's no judgment here. You're just witnessing the joy. So we're watching and witnessing the joy. Now I want you to tune into, into. What does it sound like? What are you hearing? Is there a smell? Is there a texture or a feeling that you're experiencing as you witness, allow the space to become more and more real to you, letting your adult self step more fully into the memory, coming all the way into the memory Now, allowing yourself to step closer to your inner child.

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Let them recognize you and joyfully invite you into their activity. They're saying oh yes, come play, come play, come play, play with me, be with me, and your job, as your adult version, is to do just that. I want you to get super involved. I want you to be super excited. I want you to feel the joy. I want you to feel the experience of the activity that you're engaging with, noticing the colors, noticing the sounds, noticing the movement. Noticing if you can taste anything, touch anything. Noticing what you're feeling in this moment and let it be vibrant, turn it up even more like, let it be even more exciting, expansive, joyful. What does that look like for you? Sprinkle in as much joy, love, contentment, satisfaction as possible.

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Now, if you're still kind of observing, I want you to fully be in your body, like looking through your own eyes, seeing your own hands doing whatever activity this is with your inner child. I want you to fully feel it in your body. What does it feel like to be in your body with your inner child, experiencing joy? Know that you're safe. You're safe to do this work. You're safe to be in it. You're safe to witness the joy and to have fun. You can do this. I know you can do this. It's a beautiful thing. You've got this.

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Just noticing, witnessing, loving all of it. Notice the feelings that you're experiencing. Notice how you may be interacting with nature, noticing if there's elements of nature, if you're feeling the winds through your hair. Noticing what you're tangibly touching with your fingers. Notice how you're engaging with your inner child in this play. How are you playing together now, letting it be a collaborative experience. Say yes to all of it, letting your inner child know it is safe, it's beautiful. We can do this together. Feel it, feel it, feel it Beautiful.

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And then I'm going to let you take a moment and I want you to float above that scene. So you're looking down at it as a security camera point of view. So now you're watching your adult self play with your inner child. Take a moment to witness it from this angle, noticing what you hear, what you smell, what you can sense, what you feel as you watch. What would make this scene even more joyful, even more playful?

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As you watch the scene from a security camera point of view, let those emotions of joy and ecstasy and pleasure expand even greater.

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And then I want you to envision that scene shrinking down and surrounded in a Reiki bubble, a beautiful healing bubble that you can now hold in your hands.

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And I want you to feel the beauty of it in your hands, that you are holding the scene, this memory, this playful action. And I want you just to notice in your body where do you need joy in your body today, where do you need fun and play in your body today? And I want you to take that beautiful memory that's in that Reiki bubble and place it in your body where you need it most, where you need that expansive, playful joy in your body. Go ahead and let that sink in, breathe it in, let it expand in your body and feel the feelings of it viscerally in your body. Let your nervous system say yes to all of the joy, all of the fun, knowing that it is safe to experience joy, saying yes, saying thank you, having the gratitude for this experience, breathing it all in. You got this. And then, whenever you are ready, wiggling those fingers and toes, fluttering up, open your eyes and coming all the way back to this, recording this experience.

Speaker 1:

Beautiful. It's taking a few minutes here to come all the way back, letting yourself fully sink into your physical body, sink into this present moment, sink into how you're feeling after that and just take a moment to notice. How do you feel now, after that positive experience, after that meditation? What word comes to mind about how you're feeling? How do you feel different now than when you started? What's your top takeaway?

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What is the sense, the energy, the message, the wisdom that your inner child had for you today through that experience?

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Take a minute to just call that in, to claim it, to put a word to it, so that whenever you need to connect with your healed inner child, whenever you need to come back to that energy, you can bring to mind that vision, that experience and that word and notice if you want to use that word in your daily life, if you want to start bringing that into your life as an affirmation, or maybe even making a vision board specifically for that word, or writing that word on your bathroom mirror or your fridge, or putting it on your car dashboard so that you see it always and you can be reminded that our ability to have fun and play, our ability to experience joy, our ability to be creative is within us, that we are safe and worthy to have that experience, and you can bring it back to yourself as often as you need to by tuning into that word and tuning in to that energy.

Speaker 1:

I love this way of interacting with our inner child because it does just remind us of that joy and that shine and that creativity and that love and play and everything that, even if those moments feel to our mind like they're few and far between, we can make that energy so expansive.

Speaker 1:

We can make that energy be so much more vibrant and unbridled and healing and present in our lives by just connecting with ourselves, by connecting with this healed inner child. And so, in that knowing that when we can do the work that we just did right, when we can understand the power of our subconscious beliefs and when we know how to work through those past traumas and release the limiting beliefs and break the self-sabotaging cycles, and when we can learn how to read our energy to find the story of our healing, and we know that we can access our spirit team of guides and power animals and our higher self and receive that guidance and healing 24 seven, and we have a healing toolkit packed with techniques to help us feel aligned, balanced and in flow. That is when the magic happens. It is time to heal from the inside out. When we can do these things, when we can bring it all together, when we can step into our power and we can do this work, that is when the magic happens.

Speaker 2:

And I love the magic. I love the magic. I feel like we are all meant to be magical beings in this magical world, even though I know there's a lot of heaviness going on. But once you can tap into releasing our victimhood mindset, our world can become magical. When we understand energy, as an animist, our world can become magical, and that is a gift I want to share with people.

Speaker 2:

So this is one of the reasons why I love our soul rising course, our four month course, so very much, because we're doing the work to understand and release the subconscious limiting beliefs, we're releasing those past traumas, we're breaking the self-sabotaging cycles and we're learning how to read our energy to find the story of our healing. Just like this was a story of our healing, just like this was a story of our healing, finding our healed inner child was a way to access healing for ourselves. Those words are healing for ourselves, right, and so now we're coming to a place where we can access our spirit team of guides and power animals and our higher self to receive guidance and healing 24 seven. This isn't just about having this divine connection to our spirit team, like it absolutely is, but once we know how to do that, once we learn all of these different activating actions, these, this toolkit of techniques to help us keep us aligned and balanced and flow. We're resourcing, we're learning how to source for ourselves, how to come into balance and alignment and I think this is such a powerful thing.

Speaker 2:

Oftentimes we get shook, we get triggered, we get activated and through this program, we're learning how do I come back to center, how do I come back to my flow, how do I say yes to ease and flow in my life and release that worry, release that heaviness that is oftentimes pretty consistent in the background of our, of our world. And so we get to now choose, like I am an empowered, empowered person, to say yes to whatever you want we get, instead of playing the what if down game of like what if all these bad things happen? What if the you know, what if, what if, what if we played the what if up game, what if we were playing what if everything was magical? What if shit turned to gold? Like what if my trauma could be my greatest superpower and helping others. Like we get a change. We get it. We get a reframe, our mindset and our world, because we're doing the inner work.

Speaker 1:

And something that I love about that and I want to share this because it's something that has come through for the last couple of weeks with our soul rising students that are just about to graduate. We've been having this theme come up in our class of this idea of you know, those stories that we tell ourselves, those limiting beliefs that come through, those moments when we do feel triggered or weighed down or ashamed or anxious or depressed or whatever it is we're feeling, and how, when we have these stories, when we understand, right, that those are all rooted in our subconscious framework and we can look at how much distress we're experiencing, right, so we have this story that our mind is telling us and then we have the amount of distress that it's causing us. So that anxious feeling, that tension, that feeling like we're out of alignment or we're out of balance, right, that feeling is directly proportional to how out of alignment with our soul's truth we are right. So, when Christina is talking about coming back into alignment and coming back to our center, this is really what we're talking about, of being able to understand that when we feel that discomfort, when we feel that mental distress, when things aren't flowing and they feel out of alignment. It's because the story that our mind is telling, the framework that we're using to live our life, is out of balance with the framework the story that our soul wants us to be using is calling us to be using. And so when we can do the work whether that's going on a shamanic journey or using one of the activating actions we tell you about in the course, or going for a walk, or doing your inner child healing or whatever it is to figure out what's the story my mind is telling, what's the story my soul is telling and where's that disconnect and how can I bring them back into balance? How can I help my mind realize that there's a different way of living life, there's a different story that I could be telling myself, because I know my soul is calling me towards this. I know that there's a different way of perceiving this.

Speaker 1:

And so, like a really simple example, is that belief that so many people have of I'm not enough right? When we have a day where, in the back of our mind, our subconscious script is saying you're not enough right? That inner critic is in our ear, going you're not doing enough, you're not being enough, you're not showing up enough, you're not doing good enough, you're not enough. It creates that feeling of tension in us. Right For me, when that story comes up in my life, I feel that in the pit of my stomach it's like this tension, this tightness in my body, and I know that that tension, that tightness, is a symptom. Right, just like we talked about the signs of childhood wounding, I know that that tension is a symptom of the fact that the story my mind is telling that I'm not enough script is not the story that my soul is telling. It's not the story that the divine is telling. It's not the story that my soul is telling. It's not the story that the divine is telling. It's not the story that my spirit team knows is true for me. And so I can use these tools, I can use these techniques to figure out what is that story, what is that capital T truth? Christine, you're still screen sharing. What is that capital T truth that we can connect to of I am enough, truth that we can connect to of I am enough, I am worthy? And how can we walk that path of getting from point A, of being stuck in our mind stories, to getting to point B, of knowing our soul's truth and being able to embody it and connect with it. And that, at the end of the day, is really what this course is about is helping you reconnect to your truth.

Speaker 1:

We had a student in class the other day who was asking me you know, is it okay that I still get triggered? Is it okay that I still have a hard time? And it's like yeah, because the goal of this course isn't to fix you. The goal of this course isn't that you come in, you learn these techniques and then you're done. You're not broken to begin with. There's nothing wrong with you. You're not failing If you get triggered.

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The goal of this work is so that when you get triggered, when you have a hard day, when the emotions come up, you have the tools and the support you need to be able to go. Okay, I'm going to take my deep breaths, I'm going to have compassion for my mind and the experience that it's having, and I'm going to figure out how can I come back into alignment, back into connection, back into balance with my soul, with that capital T truth. And that's the path that we walk in this course, and it is just such a joy and a privilege and an honor to get to watch students going through this process, because I know that it's completely revolutionized my own life and my own healing. And these are things that Christine and Chantel, all of us, we have all walked this path. We have all used these tools. We've all engaged with the shamanic work and done the Reiki healing and worked through the mindset and developed all of the techniques that we teach you in class. And we teach them because we believe in them, because we've experienced them in our own lives. Everything that we bring into the course is deeply personal to us because it's the things that have helped us come back into alignment with our truth, come back into alignment with nature with a capital N and spirit with a capital S, knowing that when we do that, that's where healing happens, that's where connection happens, that's where flow happens.

Speaker 1:

And we want to give you the opportunity, the option, the buffet table of options, to be able to choose. How are you going to find that connection for yourself? Not can you do it exactly like Isabel did it, not can you do it the way Christine did it. But here are the tools, here are the techniques, here is the framework, the option, the container, the sacred space to start exploring, to invite your inner child in and say what are we going to do today? What's that thing that's going to bring us back into connection? And I truly believe that that is the most empowering and poignant and beautiful gift that we can give ourselves is the opportunity to come into a sacred space and say, okay, where am I right now and where do I want to be, and how can I get myself there in kindness and compassion and truth and in partnership with my soul and with spirit and with nature. And I love that we get to do that in this class.

Speaker 1:

If you're listening to this, we have early bird pricing currently available, but only until Saturday night, january 25th. On Saturday January 25th, early bird pricing ends and then classes start on February 3rd. So our live calls will start on February 3rd. But if you choose to enroll now, as you're listening today, whenever it is, you'll get instant access to your orientation and Reiki module material, so you'll already be able to start diving into the coursework and diving in deep to your healing. So know that those dates are available If you want to book a call with us to talk more about the course, to talk more about our soul alignment fund, if you need financial support to talk more about. If this is your best next step, book a free 15 minute call with us. We would love to hear from you and we hope to see you in class on February 3rd All right, you guys, I love it and we will see you next time.

Speaker 2:

Beautiful Thanks everyone. Bye everyone.

Speaker 1:

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