Healing Your Inner Child

Free yourself from codependency and find your true Self

Until I was 30 years of age, I spent most of my life seeking happiness from the outside world, but in the completely wrong places. I wanted to be happy like everyone else, but I never understood what true happiness meant or where to find it. My search grew into a hunt and eventually result into enormous stress. I was in such a hurry through life that I completely lost track of myself and who I was. Subconsciously, I was running away from myself and my suppressed emotions by directing all my attention to the outside world. The search for appreciation and validation from others created a life where I constantly let myself be guided by the voice and opinion of others, instead of following my own truth. I told myself that money, achievements, material possessions, prestigious job titles and a perfect appearance would give me the love and happiness I lacked and longed for. In my world, I believed external factors and other people were the solution to all my problems and the answer to a happier life. Instead, I slowly got stuck in self-destructive behaviours and drifted further away from myself and who I was. In the end, I no longer knew what it meant to be alive, or fully live.

I was in survival mode.

The day my mom passed away after a nine-year battle with cancer, a part of me died with her. Her battle was long and tough, not only for her but for me as well. I fought alongside her every day. My mom, who had always meant the world to me, was taken away from me. At that time, I felt more lost than I had ever felt before. But amid the grief, I realized my life situation was unsustainable and that I couldn’t keep running away from myself anymore. I knew I had to take a whole new path to find my way back to life – a life I knew, somewhere deep down, was out there for me. I became dedicated to finding answers. But above all, I had to search for the truth. Suddenly, I was faced with my greatest fear: to confront myself and my suppressed emotions in order to find my true self.