My partner and I are both doing inner child work with different therapists and we keep triggering each other's wounded parts during normal conversations — like when they get that small voice I want to rescue them but my therapist says that's my own abandonment wound, and when I shut down they try to fix it which makes me feel more like a burden. We don't know how to be in healing together without constantly stepping on each other's tender spots.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people attempting simultaneous inner child healing are inadvertently activating each other's core wounds through their instinctive responses to pain.
“Where Are You with Inner child work and reparenting?”
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