The Importance of Being Kind to Your Child

I was talking with a colleague just this week and we were talking about the idea of inner child work, of seeing your young child inside of you. And I said, it's important to be kind to the child, treat that aspect of yourself, treat it with patience,. Tell it that you're listening, hold it if you would metaphorically as you would hold a little child. Be careful not to kind of be stern with it and tell it, tell it that part of you,You need to get over it, you need to stop showing up. So we learned to hold the wounds, our woundedness with patience and compassion. That takes difficulty because that's not what we were shown