Christian Inner Healing of the Inner Child
The Christian inner healing of the Inner Child is an issue of great significance to each of us.
You can get by without a free Inner Child and miss out when it comes to love and intimacy. You can make it through without a healed Inner Child but will miss out on a level of joy, and creativity. This book is about enjoying more of life, love, and God by finding healing and freedom of your Inner Child. ( This is from the Introduction to a book I am writing on Freeing and Inner Healing our Inner Child.)
If your Inner Child is not free and healthy you are likely anxious or depressed. If your Inner Child is freed, you will begin to experience more abundant life, vital energy, and less depression.
Becoming ‘like a little child’ opens your heart to receive more of God’s love, be filled with the radiant light of God’s presence and enjoy greater access to divine creativity. You begin celebrating God’s presence everywhere and living in a stream of joy.
Freeing your Inner Child is remembering who you are, discovering your deepest heartfelt desires and removing the veils on your eyes to see life more clearly and be fully present in each moment of your life.
Your Inner Child allows you to feel life more deeply and have more active intuition (gut instinct).
Others will notice as your Inner Child gets healed. Many will sense that you are more present and make eye contact with greater ease. Some will sense that your spirit is getting brighter.
As your heart breaks open, your tears will flow more easily. It is almost that you are experiencing the heart of God. At those times you will find that the Holy Spirit flows through your prayers with great ease.
That means I would be willing to go to great lengths to heal my Inner Child.
Note: The fee schedule is $150 / hour or $215 for a 90 minute session with George. Sessions use a mix of evidence-based methods, including EMDR, to heal and free your Inner Child. Phone (416) 939-0544 to book your first session.
The Lost Inner Child
by George Hartwell
What happened to the Inner Child? You may find that your Inner Child is locked away in a closet somewhere.The Inner Child is missing in action. There has been too much suppression for too long and the Inner Child is just not functioning as part of your personality at all. But perhaps the drive for self-expression is like a seed under pavement. The life drive just might penetrate your defences and demand expression. What would that feel like?
If you were a too-serious kid it is likely that you grew up to be the Super-Responsible Adult. There was no easy way for you to avoid that outcome. Your way of seeing life continues to be your perspective in adulthood. Core beliefs do not spontaneously change. The role you stepped into to help your family survive becomes your mission in adulthood.
You helped your family survive. You got through childhood by being the Stablizer. You hated the chaos and pain. Therefore, you will now go to extremes to ensure order and avoid chaos. Your need for order and to avoid chaos is satisfied in the roles you choose. There are strong motivations to continue in those kind of roles.
There is another strong drive at work. At a deep level your worth and meaning is associated with rescuing the family from chaos. You get most of your meaning and worth in life from being this heroic figure. This script repeats as you help people and seek to rescue relationships. This becomes an important part of your identity and your mission in life.
Therefore your life patterns persist. As the too-serious kid you were dedicated to bringing safety and order to your family in order to save them from disaster. As the Super-Responsible adult you are still deeply motivated to bring peace and order. Rescuing now brings meaning and purpose to your life. All of this is at the cost of your Inner Child who remains suppressed.
The gave the too-serious kid too much responsibility in childhood while those who in positions of authority failed to fulfill their responsibilities. This inversion of roles creates boundary confusions for you in adulthood. You will have the unconscious expectation that others will not do their part. You may find yourself working too hard, doing too much and overstepping boundaries.
Written by George Hartwell M.Sc. a Christian counsellor and registered psychotherapist with a masters in clinical psychology and 40 years experience.
Sessions with George bring people to healing experiences in a loving safe environment. His reliable and innovative methods provide a compassionate focus on people's feelings, a wise understanding of their issues and psychological and faith-based solutions for change.
Phone (416) 939-0544 to set uo an initial session/consult. Phone, Zoom, FaceTime only.
My fee schedule is $150 per hour. Payment is by bank transfer or PayPal transfer.
There is a money-back guarantee. If, in the first session, you decide this is not a good fit for you, we will stop the session and cancel any payment due. I want this to work for you and for me.
by George Hartwell
What happened to the Inner Child? You may find that your Inner Child is locked away in a closet somewhere.The Inner Child is missing in action. There has been too much suppression for too long and the Inner Child is just not functioning as part of your personality at all. But perhaps the drive for self-expression is like a seed under pavement. The life drive just might penetrate your defences and demand expression. What would that feel like?
If you were a too-serious kid it is likely that you grew up to be the Super-Responsible Adult. There was no easy way for you to avoid that outcome. Your way of seeing life continues to be your perspective in adulthood. Core beliefs do not spontaneously change. The role you stepped into to help your family survive becomes your mission in adulthood.
You helped your family survive. You got through childhood by being the Stablizer. You hated the chaos and pain. Therefore, you will now go to extremes to ensure order and avoid chaos. Your need for order and to avoid chaos is satisfied in the roles you choose. There are strong motivations to continue in those kind of roles.
There is another strong drive at work. At a deep level your worth and meaning is associated with rescuing the family from chaos. You get most of your meaning and worth in life from being this heroic figure. This script repeats as you help people and seek to rescue relationships. This becomes an important part of your identity and your mission in life.
Therefore your life patterns persist. As the too-serious kid you were dedicated to bringing safety and order to your family in order to save them from disaster. As the Super-Responsible adult you are still deeply motivated to bring peace and order. Rescuing now brings meaning and purpose to your life. All of this is at the cost of your Inner Child who remains suppressed.
The gave the too-serious kid too much responsibility in childhood while those who in positions of authority failed to fulfill their responsibilities. This inversion of roles creates boundary confusions for you in adulthood. You will have the unconscious expectation that others will not do their part. You may find yourself working too hard, doing too much and overstepping boundaries.
Written by George Hartwell M.Sc. a Christian counsellor and registered psychotherapist with a masters in clinical psychology and 40 years experience.
Sessions with George bring people to healing experiences in a loving safe environment. His reliable and innovative methods provide a compassionate focus on people's feelings, a wise understanding of their issues and psychological and faith-based solutions for change.
Phone (416) 939-0544 to set uo an initial session/consult. Phone, Zoom, FaceTime only.
My fee schedule is $150 per hour. Payment is by bank transfer or PayPal transfer.
There is a money-back guarantee. If, in the first session, you decide this is not a good fit for you, we will stop the session and cancel any payment due. I want this to work for you and for me.