Affirmations for the Inner Child

Today I will seek new opportunities. I will take a risk and reach for the stars, remembering that courage comes from facing fear and going ahead anyway. I will make the most of every opportunity, discovering the energy that comes with action.

Sometimes it manifests itself as a dark cloud of depression, even though everything is going well.

In a certain way, teenagers create role models for their future adult selves. In my family of origin, my conflicts were unacknowledged or discounted as “mere rebellion.” As an adult child, I forgot the image of my teenaged spiritual warrior.

My curiosity was not okay, for I was constantly reproached, “Get your hands off that! Keep your hands to yourself!” Soon I learned to look but not touch. I learned my lesson well. Now as an adult, I keep the world at an arm’s distance. I observe rather than engage in life. My reticence about reaching out has kept me disconnected from myself, my env

He is convinced that if anyone discovered who he really is, he would be rejected.

In my dysfunctional family I was deprived of nurturing. As an adult child, I avoided feeling the pain of deprivation through addictive behaviors. I tried to fill my emptiness with things rather than heal myself from within. Today I will give the child within me the gifts of inner riches. I am filled with healing energy and peace of mind. I am rich

Inside those walls I was safe. So I learned to live inside that tiny, airless, constricted space. I lived within my walls for so long that I forgot the reason for their existence, and even that it was I who had erected them.

As a child I didn’t like pretending to be someone else, nor did I want my friends to be anything other than who they were. I was scared by all the masks. Would I know my friends behind their masks? Would they know me?

My world is rich and full and all my feelings belong.

I will love my family and friends with the touch of my hand, words of kindness and support. My love is healing and I learn to share it with others.