Affirmations for the Inner Child

If we missed out on attention when we were children, we might have learned to attend to ourselves, to become more and more creative, to look for attention from adults other than our parents. In this way, a deficiency became something beneficial, the pothole that became the portal. Likewise, our ability to reach out as adults may be directly proport

Child parts can step forward and make requests, too, but it is best if they understand that the partner isn’t the only adult around. You might decide that the bulk of your inner child work and re-parenting can better be done elsewhere, but that it’s nice to also have your partner nurture your child on occasion.

Today, we nurture ourselves by deciding what we want the universe to send us, because we’re open to the possibility that we can have those things. We allow ourselves to swim around in the scent of promise. We deserve it. We realize that wanting something is not bad; it’s a healthy part of being human. We allow our minds and hearts to wander because