October is Inner Child month at Relationship Enrichment Center and to celebrate this, I wanted to share an intentional inner child connection activity with you. I have written two previous blog posts about the inner child: Inner Child and Fun Ways to Connect With Your Inner Child. You can read these two posts to learn more about your inner child!
Read MoreI often struggle with internalizing and allowing something to fester up and become much bigger than it needs to be. Over the years I have learned how to implement techniques to let the little things go.
Read MoreAs someone who is learning how to have fun, a big part of my recovery is learning how to connect with myself, my inner child, in fun ways! Of course, part of the healing process is feeling our feelings, often feelings we have worked really hard not to feel. In this way, healing our emotional wounds can often be exhausting and overwhelming. It’s important to balance out the hard stuff with fun stuff!
Read MoreI was reading a book the other night that I often read on and off, without any real consistency. Melody Beattie’s “The Language of Letting Go”, is a book of daily meditations on codependency. I hadn’t opened the book in a while, and I was hopping around to read the meditations from random dates, and the thought popped into my head that I should look at the meditation for my birth date. It felt as if my higher power was encouraging me to look at this specific meditation because it was about perfectionism and letting go, allowing our humanness to be a part of the equation.
Read MoreI try and share this with my clients using a metaphor. If one has never been to the ocean and I show pictures of it, or share the sound of it, or if one flies over it in an airplane, all of these things are helpful and yet not the same as experiencing it for oneself. When one goes to the ocean and feels the vastness, or experiences what the undertow feels like, they have their own experience of the ocean. I haven’t been able to do the ocean justice because it’s so personal and powerful. I would say that’s true about intensives as well.
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