The Inner Child and Shadow Work- Weekly Shadow Work Practice for the week of May 8th, 2022.

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A quick note on Inner Child Work- Some of us never had the chance to experience a real childhood, and even if you are someone who did have a decent childhood there’s still a possibility part of what you needed was never received. For some reason people carry a lot of shame around feeling like what their childhood lacked was their own fault, like some inherent internal flaw was the cause of them never having their needs met. And this belief carries into adulthood, preventing us from asking for and giving ourselves the simple things we need like unconditional love and patient kindness. It is important in doing inner child work to recognize that we never have to do anything to earn these things, even if the people in our lives gave us a different message early on. Taking care of our inner child is an important part of allowing ourselves to move forward in the ways we truly want to and release the guilt and shame we carry in our deepest selves. This week in practice we ask ourselves- What do you think you missed out on as a child? What do you wish you had received as a kid? How would your life be different if you received these things? Why do you think you didn’t receive these things? For our shadow practice we work with the exercise from Meredith Lane’s book- Inner Child Work: 20 Exercises for Healing Your inner Child. (Link- https://www.scribd.com/book/413176454/Inner-Child-Work-20-Exercises-for-Healing-Your-Inner-Child) and look at some of our favourite past times before we absorbed all our conditioned outlooks on life. Our grounding work is in building a mind fort for ourselves to visit when we need a safe space to be ourselves. Subscribe at shadowcraftcult.com for weekly practices and shadow work insights.