Inner child healing - Why do it?
Inner child healing - Why do it?
“Modern civilizations - both Eastern and Western - are no more than a generation or two removed from the belief that children were property. This, of course, goes hand in hand with the belief that women were property. The idea that children have rights, individuality, and dignity is relatively new in modern society. " “It is only in very recent history, that our society has even recognized child abuse as a crime instead of an inherent right of the parent. The concept of healthy parenting as a skill to be learned is very new in society. Any society that does not respect and honor individual human dignity, is going to be a society that does not meet the essential needs of it’s members. Patriarchal societies, that demean and degrade women and children, are dysfunctional in their essence.” “Inner child healing is not some fad or pop psychology. Inner child healing is the only way to empower ourselves to stop living life in reaction to the past. We have been ignoring history and repeating it for centuries. If we are going to have a chance to reverse the self destructive patterns of human kind, it is going to come from individuals healing self. By healing our inner child wounds, we can change the world.”
On this page is an article by Spiritual teacher/codependency therapist about the reasons to do inner child healing work.
Codependence: The Dance of Wounded Souls by Robert Burney is copyright 1995. Material on Joy2MeU web site (except where otherwise noted) is copyright 1996 thru 2015 by Robert Burney PO Box 98 Fallbrook CA 92088.
This column was originally published on June 20, 2000 on the Inner Child/Codependency Recovery page that I edited for Suite101.com Directory.
Originally published at https://joy2meu.com/child_within.htm