What is it?
Inner Child Embodiment is a modality that guides you in exploring present emotions, sensations and tension patterns, uncovering their roots; often in inner child or teen distress, family dynamics, roles, and survival responses, and bringing lasting resolution. This practice fosters compassionate reparenting and rewiring, creating a deep sense of safety and ease.
Through somatic techniques, visualization, embodiment practices, subconscious reprogramming, and parts work, you’ll cultivate an inner sanctuary, unlocking pathways to freedom in mind, body, and spirit.
Together, we’ll bring limiting beliefs and old patterns to light and release what holds you back. Reconnecting with your inner child/teenager helps align you with your truest essence and purpose, resolving old patterns and transforming your inner landscape.
This holistic approach builds resilience, empowers you to make choices true to your deepest desires, and deepens understanding and compassion for your past, present, and future.
HOW DO I KNOW IF I NEED THIS?
Within each of us live younger parts (inner children), representing the different stages of our childhood. We all carry both wounds and wisdom from these formative years, and when left unresolved, they can profoundly shape our sense of self, well-being, and relationships. Seeking support can be essential when these early experiences continue to affect our lives, emotions, or patterns.
Here are 11 of the most common signs of unresolved inner child wounds...
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Emotional Reactivity: Reacting strongly to certain triggers or situations with intense emotions such as anger, fear, or sadness disproportionate to the present circumstances.
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Low Self-Esteem: Feeling unworthy, inadequate, or constantly seeking external validation due to past experiences of neglect or criticism.
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Perfectionism: Setting unrealistic standards for oneself and experiencing anxiety or self-criticism when unable to meet them, often stemming from childhood pressure to perform or achieve.
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People-Pleasing: Constantly seeking approval or validation from others, avoiding conflict, and prioritizing others' needs over one's own, which may stem from a fear of rejection or abandonment.
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Difficulty Setting Boundaries: Struggling to assert personal boundaries and feeling overwhelmed by others' demands or expectations, often due to blurred boundaries in childhood or fear of rejection for asserting oneself.
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Avoidance or Escapism: Engaging in behaviors such as excessive substance use, overeating, or excessive screen time to avoid facing uncomfortable emotions or memories from childhood.
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Relationship Patterns: Repetitive, unhelpful patterns in relationships, such as attracting partners who replicate unhealthy dynamics from childhood, or difficulty forming secure attachments due to past experiences of abandonment or neglect.
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Self-Sabotage: Undermining one's own success or happiness, often due to deep-seated beliefs of unworthiness or fear of failure instilled during childhood.
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Lack of Self-Compassion: Being overly critical or harsh towards oneself, lacking self-compassion, and struggling to forgive oneself for past mistakes or perceived shortcomings.
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Difficulty Expressing Needs: Difficulty identifying and expressing one's needs and desires, or feeling guilty for prioritizing oneself, often stemming from childhood experiences of having needs neglected or invalidated.
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Chronic Pain: Unresolved childhood trauma ingrains patterns of stress and tension, often manifesting as chronic pain conditions. Emotion regulation disrupted by these wounds compounds chronic stress and pain, emphasizing the need to address underlying emotional trauma for effective pain management.
What Will A Session Look Like ?
Each session unfolds uniquely, guided by what’s present for you in the moment. Your body, emotions, and inner parts lead the way, and together we follow what feels ready to be seen, felt, and integrated. While every session looks a bit different, here’s the general flow of our work together:
We’ll begin by exploring what’s been coming up for you—the patterns or sensations you’d like to shift and the qualities you’re wanting to embody, such as clarity, confidence, or worthiness. From there, we’ll move through grounding practices that help you drop into your body and create a sense of safety within your nervous system. These somatic tools weave naturally throughout our time together to support pendulation and resourcing—helping you stay connected and regulated as deeper layers arise.
From this grounded space, we’ll move into a guided visualization to explore the roots of what’s showing up—often tracing patterns back to early experiences where unmet needs or protective strategies first formed. As we connect with these younger parts, we’ll meet them with presence and compassion, offering the safety and understanding that may have been missing in the past. Together, we’ll also honor the protectors who’ve worked so hard to keep you safe, allowing their roles to soften as trust builds within your system. This process of reparenting brings healing, integration, and a renewed sense of inner connection.
This work offers relief and transformation in two powerful ways: first, by completing the emotional and energetic cycles that were once left unresolved—allowing your body to release what it’s been holding—and second, by cultivating deeper awareness and compassion for your inner world, creating space for new ways of being.
We’ll close the session with time for reflection and integration, grounding you gently back into your body and present moment—anchoring the shifts and insights that have unfolded.
Recommended Frequency: While a single session can create powerful change in your well-being and day-to-day experience, multiple sessions provide the opportunity to address deeper, long-held patterns and emotional wounds. I recommend beginning with one session every one to two weeks for 4–6 sessions, then reassessing to determine the ideal frequency moving forward.
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TESTIMONIALS
AMIKA
I've always felt very reactive and stressed, no matter how good my life was going. I knew I had childhood trauma but didn't realize how much it still affected me. Working with Oliviah has been life changing. Truly, I can't thank her enough for helping me to see how my past contributed to the anger that I always felt inside of me. I now have tools and a new sense of who I am.
LEX
Not only are these sessions powerful, but the support and guidance that I've received from Oliviah has been very healing. She is warm, compassionate and pushes me while still being gentle. I was hesitant to begin this because of facing my wounds and trauma but I am so very glad I did.
BRIELLE
These sessions have changed my life. I am able to recognize my patterns before I project them onto my friends and family, and have the tools to support my inner child when she feels alone. I feel more like myself and have less shame for my past. I would highly recommend working with Oliviah if you're ready to heal what you kept to yourself.
JAMES
If I only knew how to work with my inner child sooner life would have been much easier, though I do believe that things come when they're meant to. This healing, and her style of coaching is what helped me to finally let go of the resentment that I had for my parents. It was so strong that I would avoid them, and thinking about my childhood at all costs. I now look back with understanding and know how to comfort myself in the ways that I need rather than finding others to do that for me.
KRISTEN
Inner child work with Oliviah has transformed my life. I initially came to her seeking answers for my pain, but what she showed me is that I am the person my inner child has been needing most. That I have the power to care for her and support her even when nobody else does. I went from feeling shame and guilt on deep levels to a sense of freedom and self-compassion. Life feels much easier when you know how to care for yourself and understand your different parts. I highly recommend working with Oliviah.