Your inner child. The part of you that’s still attached to your youthfulness. The part that carries the wounds from your early years. There are many books and resources on healing your inner child, but I think this term has been played out by pop psychology. A therapist friend suggested that a better way to view dealing with our inner child is doing “soul work,” because childhood experiences leave lasting impressions on our soul.
Childhood can be a hard time. The days when you are supposed to be built up and encouraged can, instead, be a time of great abandonment and pain. This is not God’s design. Jesus himself condemned those who would lead children astray (Matt. 18:6). Ephesians 6:4 ESV says, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.” Parents and caregivers are responsible for the social-emotional development of their children. Most likely, today you are carrying a burden that an unloving or at least insensitive adult placed on you as a child. I want to say to you that “it is not your fault.”
You were a child. You were not responsible for your emotional and physical well-being. That was the responsibility of your parents. You should not have been required to engage in adult level responsibilities or shoulder the emotional burdens of adults.
childhood affirmation
God sees your pain, and he can restore you. He agrees that any childhood pain that you experienced was not your fault. But as an adult you are responsible for handling the fallout and the impact of that pain. I pray that this affirmation is very helpful for those of you, like me, that are still dealing with the impacts of childhood trauma.
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
Psalm 147:3 ESV
Let the Father work in your soul.
Trust God. Seek Him. Be Affirmed in Christ.
Affirmed in Christ 