EP 18 Love Is Your Birthright: A Guided Inner Child Healing Practice to Set Your Light Free

You came into this world pure, whole, and worthy of love. No conditions. No performance required. Somewhere along the way, someone forgot to tell you that.

In this deeply healing episode of The Magic in the Middle, Sarah takes you on a guided inner child journey unlike anything you may have experienced before. Not back into the pain. Not to relive what hurt. But into the arms of the little one inside you who has been waiting, maybe for decades, to finally feel safe, seen, and loved exactly as they are.

Sarah shares her own raw, tender discovery, the little girl curled up in the corner of her bedroom, feeling small, feeling wrong, feeling like she had to earn the very roof over her head. And then she shows you what she did with that. She held her. She loved her. And everything began to shift.

This episode is an invitation for you to do the same.

In this guided practice you will experience:

• A gentle, somatic inner child visualization you can return to again and again, no prior experience needed
• How to locate the part of you that still carries old fear, shame, or unworthiness and meet it with love instead of resistance
• Why the nervous system panic, the self-doubt, and the feeling of not being safe often trace back to a moment in childhood, and how healing that child heals you now
• The practice of calling in your spiritual team to shower that child with the love they always deserved
• How this single practice can shift health, spirit, and mental wellbeing because everything, including old pain, is energy, and energy can be transformed
• Why loving the parts of yourself you have judged the most is the key to breaking down the walls that have been covering your light

Sarah healed suicidal depression and severe anxiety through Qigong and inner child work. This is not theory. This is a lived path. And she is walking it right alongside you.

You were never broken. You never needed to be fixed. You only needed to be loved.

Come back to this one as often as you need to. That child inside you is worth every single visit.

Join Sarah's free Qigong practice group, Monday through Friday, 7 to 7:35am Pacific on Zoom. Learn more at marrvelouslife.com.

Transcript

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Hello. Welcome, welcome. Thank you for being here. I'm always grateful that you're here. Today I want to talk about inner child work. If you've been following me, I've been talking about how I've been expanding and growing and how about the nervous system and when we expand and grow, we move a place in the nervous system where it doesn't feel safe. And how to regulate the nervous system that it's important to do that. But doing some inner child work. It's very powerful, very revealing. I like I've been saying, I've been growing and expanding and doing a lot of work on me to go to the next level for me. That next level of being a teacher to myself, being a teacher to others, being better wife and daughter, and grandmother, and entrepreneur, and prosperous, just expanding into what is that next greatest version of me? Not that there's anything wrong with me. But what am I capable of? What is possible for me? And in doing this, I've had some things come up and some aha moments. It's been really, really cool. It's been very revealing. And also it's been very sad. Very sad because this little girl inside me was taught to be weak, to be afraid, not deserving. That she had to earn the good that life has to give. That she had to do to earn, to earn, like that she wasn't good enough as she was to be able to have nice things, that they were going to be taken away from her if she didn't behave in a certain way. And that poor little girl was frightened, scared, not even feeling like she deserved to be in her home. In her bedroom. Go back into your childhood. Or maybe there's something in your life now where you're feeling triggered. That's how this certain area of my life came up as a trigger, and then I decided to go, well, what is this about? Remember if you've listened, I have a previous episode that talks about leaning in, leaning into the things that can be triggering and difficult. I don't know if I said triggering, but that things that are coming up when you're cracking open. When you're cracking open to lean in to that cracking open, what is that? And it just came to me all of a sudden. It's about a teenager and being told that everything was going to be taken away from me. All my brand new bed furniture, my Du V covers everything if I didn't behave in a certain way. I remember feeling so small and so horrible and so gross. Just ugh, terrible. And I had a closet that had a window. And I used to go in there and open the window and smoke. But I remember feeling so small and so yucky. I'm not asking you to find that time in your life. I'm just telling you where this is going, where this came from. So maybe if there's something that's triggering you, or somewhere in your life that you feel small, or maybe there's some kind of memory, or and maybe there isn't any memory at all. But still, we can go in and love this inner child within us. And to me, that has been the greatest unfolding that has happened is self-love. Showing me that I am lovable and it's okay to be loved. And that I don't have to earn it. I don't have to act a certain way. That someone's telling me to act and be, that I am lovable, and who I am, and I came into this world as a beautiful babe. Pure, complete love. And this is how we all came in, and we all may have this beautiful love without earning it, without performing in a certain way. We all came in with beautiful, perfect gifts. And so let's go inside. Do this later. Isn't that great about a podcast? You can come back later. And you can do it over and over even coming to yourself, taking several gentle deep breaths. Breathing into your heart center. Putting your hand on your heart. Our heart is sixty times more powerful than our body our brain. Let's breathe into it. Bring that coherence. Breathing love into it and exhaling and releasing any tension that might be in our body. Inhaling through our nose. Exhale at our mouth. We might even say, ah. It tells our body we're okay, we're safe. I know we've done inner child work before. But I don't think it can be done too much. I'm not saying go back to the pains. I don't even believe in that. Going back and reliving the pains, not at all. I'm saying what we're gonna do here is we're gonna hug our inner child and love him or her. So go back. You're two, three, four, five, six, seven, a teenager and see her and feel her, feel him, connect in with him, those teen years could be so painful and difficult, at least for me. But going from a child to being an adult can be pretty scary. And stability. So find that inner child and connect in and say hello. Mine is curled up on her bed in the corner. She's feeling afraid and very small. And I can feel her within. Just not feeling safe. Feeling small, feeling wrong, feeling bad, feeling naughty. So what do I do? I take her in my arms. So I invite you to take your child, your arms, and love them. And listen. Maybe they did something bad. In quotation marks. Maybe they shoplifted. Maybe maybe they took a drug or stayed out past curfew or what kids do. What kids do, no matter what age. Maybe they took another kid's toy. Maybe they didn't quote mind. And there's just guilt. Hug that child. Tell that child they are perfect and brilliant in every single way. And that it's okay. It's absolutely okay. They are okay. They are perfection as they are. Hug them. And feel that hug. I invite you to say you are okay. You don't have to earn a good life. You don't have to perform anymore. You were born into this life good and pure already. You don't need to be purified. You are so loved. I asked my spiritual team to come forward and show the sinner child how loved she is. So she could feel that pure love of my spiritual team. The pure, pure love they have for her. They don't see her as broken. They don't see that she needs fixing. That she has to perform in a certain way to be loved. I asked my spiritual team to embrace her. To fill her with that love. And I see, I see her as perfection. And I love her completely. That is really important because you're loving you and loving a part of yourself that you may not have loved, breaking away barriers, opening places within you, and blocks are falling away.

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It's okay to cry.

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So I keep loving her more. And I hold her and hold her and hold her. And I love her just like I would a little child who's hurting. I say I love you. It's okay to be loved and to feel loved. And you are already worthy. You've always been worthy. And you don't need to earn it. You don't need to perform. You don't need to act in a certain way. You are loved. God loves you. Your spiritual team loves you. There is only perfect love here for you. You are brilliant and magnificent. And I ask my spiritual team. Please shower her with love. Continuing to shower her with love. Melting away those false beliefs and ideals and paradigms that have been holding her back and making her small and holding her down and giving her the beautiful stairway, that golden stairway, that sturdy ground, the permission to step forward and to step boldly and to open. To open this brilliance that's living within her, that's been covered up by this. That's been covered up by old ideals and paradigms. That she has to earn, that she has to perform in a certain specific way for someone who's coming from fear or doesn't know any better. Because that's how they were taught. They are so loved. They are so loved. Just giving that complete love and like a child, like a beautiful child that's in pain, and you want to nurture and hold and say, it is okay. You are okay. I love you no matter what. You are okay, it's alright, and just feel that love penetrating within you as you're hugging that child, no matter what age they are, hugging them and feel the love. Pat their head, their heads on your shoulder. Feel that love like you're loving a beautiful, perfect child. They are beautiful and perfect. You are beautiful and perfect, and you always have been, no matter what. We can let go, we can love that child. Let's tell that child that we're here. For them. But when they're wanting and needing love, we are here to love and hug them. They are perfect and brilliant beings, and they always have been. And it's okay. And let's see them smiling and feeling safe and calm now. And feeling loved. And thanking them. Thanking them for showing up and being willing to be so vulnerable and show themselves. And be willing to be loved. And you can keep going with this if you want to. And feeling them. Just feeling calm in your body and loved. And that love goes throughout all of your cells and your DNA and into the very core of you. Into the very beingness of you. And you have. You have done something magnificent, and you've broken down. You've broken down. Big, big walls right here. This is a big shift. This is a big energy shift because everything is energy. Remember, everything is energy. And what we did right now is we transformed energy. We transformed it. We broke down big barriers. We broke down things that were covering up that bright light that you are. This will shift health. This will shift spirit. This will shift mental. And you can come back here over and over and over again if you want to. You can continue to be with that child. Continue to be with that child until it feels like it's time. Say to him or her, I love you. I'm here. And thank you. So by doing this work has helped me to understand why or where the energy of panic and depression has come from. I was able to heal suicidal depression through Qigong and anxiety, severe anxiety. And the reason is because Qigong moves and transforms these energies. But also does the inner child work. And I understand why. May help my inner child to feel safe and to give my inner child stable ground. Wonderful stable ground and show her that it's okay to be alive. It's okay to have fun. It's okay to expand and grow. To do new things, and it's safe. And that I got her. That I've completely got her. And being consistent with her. Just like raising a child, being consistent. Thank you for joining me. And if you're enjoying this podcast, I invite you to share it. Invite you to give it five stars, thumbs up. And I'd love for you to comment on things that are helping you, that are supporting you. Where you're feeling that love, that shift within you. And we're taking this journey together, and it's a wonderful, wonderful community. And I love you greatly, and thank you. Thank you for being here.