What is inner child healing? What does it have to do with getting triggered?
Inner child healing is a hypnotic process of identifying - in a safe space - the childhood trauma, responsible for the trigger and healing it.
For example, we get triggered when our partner misses an important appointment we agreed on in advance. They could have a good reason for it, but - especially when it's a twentieth thing that goes wrong that day - we feel angry, sad, disappointed, abandoned, rejected. A familiar situation, isn't it?
It's easy to dismiss our feelings, once we find out that our partner had a legitimate reason for being MIA. But, the next time it happens, we get triggered AGAIN. Again, it may end up being not a big deal, but overtime resentment grows. Every such moment chips away at our trust in our partner. Before long, we break up. What happens next? We find a new partner, who - surprise surprise - misses the damn appointments.
What is going on???
Here's the deal: our partner is just shining the light on our trigger points. The truth is that they "remind" us about how our dad, mom, teacher, friend treated us when we were a kid. When it happened back in childhood it cut deep, because to a child any withholding of love can read as a "threat of death".
Children are narcissistic, i.e. they take everything personally. They can jump to conclusions like "he did not show up because he does not love me because i am not worthy of love". So now every time our partner does not show up we go straight to the "I am not worthy of love" but unconsciously . We feel like our world is crushing down but we are not even aware that our psyche is replaying that scenario from when we were 5 and our dad missed our first recital.
The only way out is through!
We can nurse our childhood wounds and triple check our partner's availability to ensure they show up. We can break up if they don't show up. But the only way to be free from these triggers is to go back to childhood, find that traumatic moment, find that wound, and heal it. Freedom is on the other side of the thing we fear the most.
How does the inner child healing work?
We use the trigger as a "thread". We pull that thread to regress into childhood and find the moment, when the original trauma happened. We relive that moment, - in a safe space, no re-traumatisation is possible, our psyche makes sure of it. It there's a risk of re-traumatisation, your psyche will simply block the memory. Really, it's absolutely safe, you can trust your psyche - we have a catharsis (an a-ha moment, when we typically realize e.g. it's OK our dad loves us, he just got delayed it has nothing to do with us), and then we heal the inner child's wound. This process is called "soul retrieval", I talk about it in my blog.
One session is enough to heal one wound.