Validation

The best time to practise is in response to a symptom like anxiety, stress, self-criticism, self-doubt, pain, procrastination or depression.

And that is what this chapter is all about, expanding your awareness skills to include attuning so that you can decipher the secret language of your body and hear the long-forgotten messages, needs and shouts for help from your development nervous system (inner child).

Security

It involves absorbing not only what was explicitly said or done to us but also what remained unspoken, hidden or simply in the background.

If we grew up around adults constantly avoiding confronting difficult emotions or problems and relying on denial as a defence mechanism, this may have inadvertently taught us to do the same. And finally, inconsistently responding to stressors, sometimes overreacting and other times underreacting, could have confused our ability to gauge the appropr

‘anxiety is a creative inner child that is trying to get your attention through your body’.

baby’s nervous system is not only recording the inputs from her mother, but from the other people she interacts with as well as all the events and experiences going on around her. All of these stimuli contribute immensely to the foundations of the baby’s brain and nervous system and, by extension, who they are and how they interpret the world. To p

By healing the developmental dimensions of your nervous system, including meeting your inner child and discovering their needs, you’ll be able to savour the aspect of life that makes us whole and fills us with the most joy – deep embodied connection to ourselves and our fellow humans.