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The Inner Child Dialogue

Healing, Shadow & Emotional Work

A structured dialogue between your adult self and the child who still lives within you — a vertical line of growth from the wounded root to the present. Use it when childhood wounds are affecting your present life: when you react disproportionately, feel small in the presence of authority, or recognize that your adult self is being overridden by a child's fear.

The positions

  1. 1. The ChildThe emotional state of your inner child right now — what they are feeling, holding, or hiding. This card may surprise you.
  2. 2. The BridgeThe connection point between then and now — the specific pattern that carries the child's fear into adult situations.
  3. 3. The AdultWhat your present, capable, grown self can offer the child who still hurts. Not fixing — being the parent, protector, or witness the child needed and did not receive.