Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A CBT Workbook to Overcome Past Trauma, Face Abandonment and Regain Emotional Stability. (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)

Progressive muscle relaxation: With this technique for relation, you focus on tightening each muscle group and then relaxing them. This can help isolate and make you more aware of physical sensations when the muscles alternatively tense and relax. To begin, you can tighten the muscles in your feet, and then relax them. Continue to focus on isolatin

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having a hard time maintaining social and intimate relationships

Addiction can be a symptom of an underlying and unresolved issue. Rather than dealing with the traumas and reliving the pain of them, you might block out what actually happened and welcome the rush of adrenaline as you overindulge.

Somewhere between childhood, where anything is possible, and adulthood, where you feel stuck in life and have no time for fun, your innocence and hope were lost. This can be especially true of those struggling with a wounded inner child, who never had the chance to experience a normal childhood. In an instant, your thoughts turn from what makes you

Alternatively, your boundaries may be rigid for self-preservation. This can result in distancing yourself from others who have offended you or hurt your feelings or cutting them out of your life entirely. There is no negotiation for resolution, and you move on without them.

Your inner child has dealt with emotional neglect for years, so the best thing you can do is to acknowledge them.