Posted by muffled on December 7, 2006, at 21:12:05
In reply to Re: Art Therapy Inner Child Work » muffled, posted by happykat on December 7, 2006, at 15:57:41
> Thanks for your posts. If you think of who the art therapist is let me know. That would be great!:)
**I'm hoping she'll spot this and post!
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> It just came to me while i was typing this up. Maybe what my t is getting at with the inner child work is for me to learn to parent my inner child. I'm trying to get pregnant. Maybe I need to learn to parent myself before I parent a child. Or accept myself. Hmmm? Oh no, now I'm thinking. That's always a dangerous thing for me. LOL! : )**I did it the other way round. In fact I don't honestly think I could have 'got it', before I had kids of my own. Cuz I hadn't been around kids much. And actually it took another babbler to help me understand (the famous yet absent :-( Alex)
BTW good luck on pregnancy!
If its dangerous to think, better not!!LOL
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> It sounds like you've done alot of work. That you've been able to identify and integrate various parts. Was this like a natural progression in your therapy or did you just come to an understanding of how you work internally on your own? Sometimes I think maybe I can just figure this out on my own.**Ohhhh. One kid absolutely HATES the I word.(integ.....)
My T dared to say it one time and the normally monosylabic silent me spoke lots and relatively emotionally for me!
Quite a reaction it was!!LOL.
I have done this primarily on my own and with the help of babblers and a little bit of research on the net. It all started when my higher power showed me my baby. She was SO sweet and untainted it was SO amazing. I loved that baby. And that baby was ME?!?!Weird.
So that started it. Then I don't remmebr the exact progression, but I remember the strange silence in my head when I 'discovered' 'them'. It actually was kinda hilarious, and strange, cuz I was used to so much noise. the silence was strange! Musta spooked them!!!LOL!!!
I dunno. I liked doing it on my own with not much input, and not much research, because then what I learned I knew was true, it wasn't something planted in my head by something I'd read. And the fun part too, is now I have done some more reading and its like YEAH! Thats IT! And I can feel confident that its true, and that I am not alone. So I dunno if i explained that very well.
So there you go,
Muffled
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