Episode 14: Welcome. Thank you for listening to Heal Into Happy, I’m your host Lark Allen, I am so happy that you are here today. This week. I thought we could decide to have some fun. We’ve been doing so many powerful healing modalities that take a lot of courage and that are truly heart opening. And in the midst of all of this healing, it is important to take time to celebrate how far we have truly come and in doing so, I want to share another healing modality that is just as powerful as everything else that I’ve shared with you, but it’s a lot more fun. This idea has been so life-changing for me, it’s really helped me get in tune with my inner child.

Ready to play? Let’s get started…

IN THIS EPISODE:

•   If you have kids, you could bring your kids in on this after you decide what you want the play date to be, and that’s up to your inner child, but you can do these play dates completely just with you. You could bring other people along for the ride if you want to, but I have found that it’s really, really fun to ask the question to yourself, Hey, little inner child, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be? (2:52)

•    I am starting a garden, and my inner child is so excited about that, one of my memories as a child was planting strawberries with my grammy, and she had them along her walkway at her lake house, and I remember that vividly, she had a fig tree and my dad was a gardener. I am creating a garden in my back yard with my daughter, and I’m so excited about that. What are things that would really spark joy and help you start having a really healthy fun relationship with your inner child? (6:09)

•   It is so fun to really start listening to your inner child and doing whatever he or she wants to do for a day, the important thing about scheduling a play date with your inner child is that once you decide when it’s going to be, you cannot cancel. It is really important that you’re building trust and that you keep your commitments, because all of us have trauma from not getting picked up at school at the right time and just sitting there, or this happening or that happening with our birth parents or people who raised us. So, we don’t want to cause any more trauma, we’re doing this to heal, we’re doing this to have fun, we’re doing this to get to know ourselves better, to fall in love and care for all of the parts of us. (9:15)

•    I challenge you to at least give it a try one time, and then I have a feeling that after you give it a try one time, this is something that you will want to add to your practices of healing into happiness. Because your life will become more creative, you will have more giggles, you will have more compassion for your fellow humans, because you really start seeing everything as a loving child would. You’ll have more patients, you’ll smile more, you’ll start aging backwards because you will start feeling younger, and where our energy goes. Where our attention goes, our energy flows. So as we’re having all of these young moments again in our life, we start having young at heart, cellular love and happiness happening, it’s absolutely amazing how much vitality that we can get back from having play dates with ourself. (12:15)

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