How to Release Trauma Through Healing
How to Release Trauma Through Healing Your Inner Child
As we navigate the ups and downs life’s journey brings, we accumulate spiritual and emotional trauma. Like invisible weights that pull us down, painful childhood experiences cling to us into adulthood, affecting our self-worth, behavior and relationships.
Our inner child needs love and reconnection. Here, we explore how to release trauma through healing your inner child.
What is my inner child?
Your inner child is part of your subconscious shaped by childhood events, ordeals, and experiences. From the day you were born, long before you could understand emotions, you started picking up Every. Little. Thing.
Perhaps your early years were filled with neglect? Or maybe they were abundant with joy? Whatever transpired in your childhood will characterize your inner child, which reveals itself in your personality.
From your playful spontaneity to your creative ideas, your inner child brings you many joys and personality perks. But it can also be the root of self-harming behaviors and dysfunctional choices.
Inner child wounds and traumas must be identified and heard.
What happens when my inner child is left unhealed?
Children can experience all manner of heart-breaking traumas. The sudden loss of a loved one, abandonment, bullying, or physical or sexual abuse will leave an indelible imprint on the child’s psyche. If left unhealed or suppressed, a wounded inner child can trigger problems in adulthood.
Growing up and navigating the world from a place of trauma and insecurity can manifest as depression or anxiety or feelings of isolation, anger, and loneliness.
An unhealed inner child can ignite unhealthy relationships with food, alcohol, or drugs as coping mechanisms. It can hinder one’s ability to form and maintain meaningful relationships, too.
An unhealed inner child may even affect your future children. Traumatic events can literally leave a chemical mark onto your genes which alters the mechanism by which the gene is expressed in future generations, leading to ancestral pain.
How can I heal my inner child?
Through deep self-reflection, therapy, and self-compassion it is possible to release those subconscious patterns you’ve held since childhood. Healing your inner child with ayahuasca, however, is one of the most profound forms of inner work you can do.
By modulating brain activity, neurotransmission, gene expression and epigenetic regulation, Ayahuasca has been scientifically shown to help heal past trauma.
Guided by an expert shaman, an ayahuasca ceremony is a safe, loving space which will allow the plant medicine to bring about acute inner child healing. Since trauma can be so deeply buried or locked away, Mother Ayahuasca journeys to these hidden blind spots to unlock and release trauma, while expanding your self-awareness and self-love.
Long held, limiting feelings of anger, resentment, and low self-esteem will be purged, leaving you able to move forward with passion and purpose in life.
To experience inner child healing with a sacred ayahuasca ceremony, OME’s Temple holds transformational healing retreats in Atlanta, Houston, and Sacramento.
Honoring the Peruvian Shipibo tribe’s shamanic traditions, rituals, and practices, our retreats will enable you to tap into the root cause of your suffering and re-emerge with a deeper level of understanding and insight.
