The Inner Child Journal

The Inner Child Journal is a 90-day guided journal designed to heal and re-parent your Inner Child.

The prompts in this journal will connect you to your Inner Child, facilitate meaningful healing, and teach you to cultivate your wise Inner Parent so that you can find peace and wholeness in your daily life.

ABOUT INNER CHILD HEALING
The Inner Child is an archetype of our adolescent self. It is a representation of the part of ourselves that either flourished and grew in a developmentally supportive environment or adapted to environments that were unsupportive or harmful.
To heal our Inner Child, we are asked to first reckon with the wounds we sustained in childhood. This can be a painful, lonely process. We are then charged with the responsibility of re-parenting those wounds, so that we can integrate fully as adults and have the wisdom, courage, and wherewithal to engage with our adult lives with compassion, awareness, and connection.
This process ideally occurs in therapy. Sadly, therapy is not accessible or affordable to everyone. This journal can be used as a supplement to your Inner Child work in therapy, or as a means to access this healing process if therapy is inaccessible to you.

ABOUT THE INNER CHILD JOURNAL
This journal aims to use the framework of the Inner Child as a scaffolding from which we can rebuild and find mental stability and emotional equilibrium. Using prompts that stem from therapeutic interventions like DBT, CBT, Mindfulness, Adlerian therapy, Rogerian therapy, and Psychodynamic therapy, this journal offers you the tools you need to be in the driver’s seat of healing your Inner Child. The Inner Child is a concept that flows from multiple psychological theories of counseling and development, including the work of Mary Ainsworth and John Bowlby, Piaget, Erik Erikson, Carl Jung, and others.
With newer research that broadens our perspective of childhood development, trauma, and the brain-body connection (specifically the works of Bessel Van der Kolk, Mark Wolynn, and Gabor Mate), we can begin to integrate the somatic, cognitive, and emotional into a multidimensional approach when healing our Inner Child.

HOW IT WORKS:
Intended to be part of your morning routine, every guided entry is different and contains prompts on topics like: mindfulness, affirmations, identifying needs, dialogue between Inner Parent and Inner Child, and letters to your Inner Child.
All you need to get started is a cozy nook, your favorite pen, and a commitment to showing yourself grace, love, and compassion.

WHAT'S INSIDE:

• Description of the Inner Child and Inner Parent
• Explanation of Inner Child healing, Intergenerational Trauma, and Re-Parenting
• 90 pages of journaling with specific prompts and categories
• Mindfulness, affirmations, and needs identification
• Inner Child & Inner Parent dialogues and letters to your inner child
• Daily entries with specific prompts to help you dive deep
• Extra pages for note-taking and reflecting on discoveries
• 5 Categories of prompts
• Needs wheel to help you identify your daily needs
• Over 50 unique questions recycled daily
• Instructions and detailed description
• Example of a daily journal for comprehension
• Intention-setting and frequent reflections to chart your growth
• Tips and tricks if you get stuck
• Quotes and daily encouragement to keep you motivated

*This journal is not intended to be a replacement for therapy.

*NEEDS WHEEL has been updated and enlarged to improve legibility! Thank you for your feedback!

Rachel is a truth-telling psychology addict with a passion for connecting souls through shared experiences. Our suffering, triumphs, and stories are never felt in solidarity--and telling our stories is the first step to true, heart-soul connection.Rachel invites people out of their loneliness through storytelling, encourages them to dive deep into their own stories through journaling, and offers tangible systems and skills for healing and recovery.Rachel is an NYU trained actress, former primary school educator, and graduate-level trained mental health therapist--though she believes the core of her education has come from life experience.After a decade of eating disorder recovery, depression, anxiety, and deep therapeutic work, Rachel has learned that life is worth living, and it is imperative that she pass that lesson on to others through her writing.Resilience, introspection, and honesty are at the heart of Rachel's work. She is truly grateful to connect with other healing and heart-centered souls through words, and thanks you for engaging in her work.