Affirmations for the Inner Child

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

Many of our parents truly wanted the best for us, but they handed off a sense of being incomplete as a person. We could never win enough awards or finish a project that made us feel whole. For most of us, our parents never said: “You have done enough. Take time to enjoy your accomplishment. Relax.”

This leads to the binge—the shopping, the impulse purchase, the two or three glasses of wine at the end of the day. It is as if you are saying to yourself, “I can’t give you a day off or even an hour of doing what you want—nor can I let you take a break or daydream—but I can give you a treat the next chance we get.” You feel like you deserve it aft

Since they originally disowned their inner child in order to survive, their re-owning process will include admitting that they actually do have an inner child, and that the child’s needs are valid and important.