Inner Child & Parts Work
I offer these modalities beside Neurosomatic Intelligence because it is important to me that we have ways of speaking to the mind and to the emotional landscape as well as to the physical body and nervous system. My goal is to keep mind and body on the same page so that the whole self is acting together in collaboration.
For me both Inner Child and Parts Work approaches go hand in hand. The parts of ourselves that give us a hard time are often parts that were established in childhood and have become frozen in time through habit and neglect. Very often these challenging parts are protecting tender, vulnerable versions of ourselves that have been unacknowledged or misunderstood for years.
Inner Child
During Inner Child work I will usually invite you to trace an emotion, a belief or a body sensation back in time to the earliest that you can remember it. From there I gently prompt here and there to make sure that the inner child that lives there is held and acknowledged in the ways that they need.
I encourage the recognition of whatever event took place, and what occurred within the child that may need to be express. In this process I leave plenty of space for your intuition and the innate wisdom of your inner child to guide you in ways that I could never predict.
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This process is one of exploration and discovery because once we understand, then we have the tools for compassion.
Parts Work
Just as I mentioned in the Inner Child section, the idea that "understanding brings compassion" is even better exemplified in Parts Work. It is so easy to hate, resent, or wish to be rid of the parts of us that self-sabotage, binge, panic, procrastinate and cause us all manner of distress. That is until we can enter into dialogue with that part and learn why it does what it does.
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Typically these parts of us are protecting us from something. At times they are even safeguarding other parts that we weren't even aware needed protection; other times the protection may be from something that is no longer a threat and when you are able to explain how that situation has changed and you are no longer a child, the vigilant part is more than happy to let go of it's patterns and rest or take on a new, more helpful role now that all that protective energy is freed up.
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When understanding enters into the relationship it becomes much easier for parts of the self to return to harmony. They then have the ability to recognizing that ultimately they all want the same thing, even if they are sometimes misguided about how to best achieve it: your highest good and most authentic life.
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Just like with Inner Child work this process is one of curiosity. Allowing your assumptions and expectations about yourself to take a back seat and allow for possibilities to emerge. This openness to what lies hidden in our shadow makes room for self-value and love that you may not have even thought possible!
