Meeting my childhood self
An EMDR update and the lessons I learnt spending time with my 4 year old self
Hello, I’m Jodie. A Yoga teacher & wellbeing creator/ writer. I write about life post burnout with themes of rest, living slower, healing, self discovery & more. Please subscribe to support my work & to read more. You can join my monthly journaling club and also find me on Instagram.
Despite having years of therapy and engaging in “healing” work, I never fully understood or connected with the concept of inner child healing…
Then I started EMDR therapy.
There was a TikTok trend early last year that summed it up well. People shared photos of the younger versions of themselves with the caption “they live inside me”. A remembering that our early experiences and how we felt then are very much a part of who we are in the present.
Those smaller, child versions of ourselves are there, and learning to connect and meet that younger version of me has been one of the most powerful things to come out of EMDR so far.