Inner Child Healing, Cognitive Distortions & Limiting Beliefs

Cognitive distortions, are faulty ways of thinking about ourselves and/or our world formed in childhood. They are beliefs and thought patterns that are irrational, false, or inaccurate. They have the potential to cause serious damage to our sense of self, confidence and our ability to succeed later in life.

Inner Child Healing, is a process that involves reconnecting with and nurturing the wounded or neglected aspects of your inner child—the emotional and psychological self that exists within you. This approach aims to address unresolved childhood traumas, fears, unmet needs and negative self-beliefs that can impact your adult life, relationships and emotional well-being. Through different techniques, self-awareness and self-compassion, inner child healing helps individuals heal, grow, and develop healthier emotional responses and behaviours, ultimately fostering greater self-esteem and a more fulfilling life, through changing limiting beliefs.

What Happens in a Session?

Arriving at the session you’ll be sharing about a recent trigger, issue or intention. When we’ve found what you’d like to work on, you’ll be guided to a deep relaxed state, the theta state, where you are more able to access memories in your subconscious mind that you can’t access as easily in a conscious state. There’ll be certain memories or ‘dream images’ that stands out as needing attention.

Shifting Cognitive Distortions & Negative Self-Beliefs

Through guided visualisation you may be shown a specific memory, event, theme or a dream image. To clarify the image we can use a technique called Multisensory Evocation. I will direct you through an exploration of the senses to help sharpen the image and identify more detail.

One example that could arise is a scenario where one of your parents were unable to respond to you reaching out to connect. Having this happen a few times may have created feelings of inadequacy and the belief that you’re not enough, not lovable. When we go back in time and revisit this memory you may create a different understanding seeing the bigger picture. Your parent may have been stressed, distracted and unable to respond to your needs. Not because they didn’t love you, but because of life circumstances.

Through guided inner dialogues you may be able to experience a new perspective, which can change the negative self-belief, and create a new more empowering belief. When this process is done in a subconscious state, we are able to reach the deeper layer of your consciousness and therefore have a more powerful effect, than in a conscious state.