Inner child healing for a gentler menopause

Each week I follow along with the Healing Womanhood Patreon resources and see what comes up for my own healing. Today I really needed it because I was away last week and missed a week which led me to realise how important it is for me to check in with my inner child parts regularly.

Our theme for this month is radical self love, a theme that’s so important at this time of year with the potential for increased stressors and chaos that can fill our lives. It’s also a theme that can make a big difference during menopause and as we shift our focus more and more towards living an empowered menopause, building towards a complete focus on menopause from February onwards, I’ll be relating our resources to this time of change.

Doing our inner healing can really impact the way we experience menopause because it reduces stress which affects our menopausal symptoms massively. We might also feel like we want to shy away from the spotlight if we start experiencing menopausal symptoms, particularly if we’re worrying about brain fog. While it’s always totally fine to retreat if that’s what feels right, our inner work today, learning to love the inner protector/saboteur, offers us the opportunity to shine bright if we want to, regardless of our time of life.

As I tapped along with today’s video connecting into my internal saboteur I found that the part of me that didn’t feel safe to achieve big dreams was actually just a toddler. As soon as I had this realisation it became much easier to send love to this part. It was clearly frightened so it’s entire focus was about staying safe by staying hidden.

The part of me that felt frustration with the saboteur was much much bigger, a creature made of rock much bigger than a person and very grumpy. This part was very present as I tried to connect with the toddler, trying to stop that connection, which made it difficult for me to stay in tune with the toddler, who needs much more love and time spent with it.

In the meditation I continued to connect with these two parts on a much deeper level and found that a third part entered the scene, a warrior woman who was there to protect the toddler both from me and from the big rock creature who wants to succeed and get things done. In encouraging these parts into a dialogue I discovered that the thing they had in common was that they were all completely terrified! They were able to agree that it doesn’t feel good to be terrified so that felt like a good beginning to the conversation and I look forward to visiting them again later today to help them clear their fears and clear the path to greater success as well as easing the path through menopause.

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