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Your Inner Child

Have big plans for 2024? You may want to spend more time focusing on your physical or mental health, or you may want to live a more balanced lifestyle. Whatever the case, January is a great month to put our best foot forward. A new year brings new opportunities, including a chance to start fresh and create healthier habits.

A new year allows us to create new habits, live a healthier lifestyle, and say goodbye to things that bring us down. The holidays tend to be busy and stressful, and it’s easy to let our self-care fall to the sidelines. After a couple of months of attending holiday parties, spending extended time with our families, and trying to balance the day-to-day, many of us feel completely exhausted by the time January comes around.

It’s the most wonderful time of the year… for burnout. We all know how the holidays go - planning get-togethers, holiday shopping, all while juggling your day-to-day responsibilities. If we aren’t mindful, the holidays can easily turn from the best time of the year to one of the most emotionally exhausting. Plus, the added expectations and responsibilities of the holiday season can send your existing burnout into overdrive. a dangerous zone.

Establishing clear, healthy boundaries is vital for your mental health and emotional wellbeing. Many of us lack personal and emotional boundaries, which leaves us feeling exhausted, misunderstood, and taken advantage of. Are you a chronic “yes” person? Do you struggle to turn down offers or requests? If either sounds like you, you likely struggle with setting boundaries. If you want to live a life that is more aligned with you and your needs, desires, wants, and your most authentic self - it’s time to start setting some emotional boundaries, so let’s get into it.

Shadow work is the act of uncovering and exploring our shadow selves. Psychologist Carl Jung popularized the idea of the inner shadow and defines it as the parts of you that you subconsciously reject and suppress. The shadow archetype of our personalities includes the dark and emotional side of ourselves. Like our inner child, our shadow self lies dormant within us until we put in the work to bring it to light.

Healing your inner child is incredibly important, as it helps you live your truth. For some, our inner child is happy, secure, and stable. For others, particularly those of us who experienced childhood trauma, our inner child feels scared, insecure, and forgotten. So how can we heal our inner child to help us live a happier and more fulfilling life? Reading and learning about our inner child is one of the best ways we can heal them.