Thursday July 24, 2025 | Inner Child work

If my inner child needs anything, I couldn't give it to them because I would have to ask my parents for permission, when I ask if there's anything that my inner child needs in this moment.  I imagine that I am back in the 80's and talking to my younger version of me.  

Affirmation: "I am here to protect and keep my inner child safe.  Together we are secure".  

As children, we make meaning out of our experiences, which forms our beliefs about ourselves.  This is where I got the stupid belief about salt.  I spent a good part of my life avoiding salt---just to avoid getting high blood pressure.  I ended up getting high blood pressure anyway.  

I keep remembering when my father would tell me everytime I would mess up in school.  Elementary school, Jr High and High school.  He would tell me "You don't want to disappoint mom, do you?"  That made me feel awful.  

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1) I think I lived my whole 12 years of school as a total screwup.  I would like to do inner child work to help to figure this one out.  

2) Would a limiting belief be what my dad had said to me, "You don't want to disappoint mom, do you" or "She will never be able to get what she wants if she doesn't talk".   Or the time that Robert Young said that belief about salt can raise anyone's blood pressure if you get too much salt.  I would give my aunt Lisa weird looks when she would put a lot of salt on her food or french fries.  How can people do that---for starters have high blood pressure and 2) are way over weight.  Would a single belief like those up there cause me to be anxious all the time?  

3) When I was in preschool, I believe that I had stopped talking when I was 3.  But when I went into kindergarten, at Wilbanks Elmentary school, kids started making fun of me and teasing me.  Then the teacher noticed that I wasn't talking in school.  But only to certain peers that I trusted I would talk--example would be Jennifer.  I would talk normally at home when I was alone.  

4) Oh these limiting beliefs made me feel so angry.  I felt very anxious as well as anger.  I guess that is all unless you can think of something else?