Journaling is a powerful tool to unpack, explore and change the relationship with your inner critic which is often in our unconscious chattin’ sh*t. Understanding the intersections of racism, oppression and gender within your family of origin or wider society is an important starting point to explore how we internalise the negative messages at a young age to become our inner critic. 

The goal is not to hate that part of yourself, but to build a relationship with it so it no longer dominates your thinking or sabotages your future choices. 

This week’s heartwork: Tune into the voices of your inner critic. What messages do you hear from this critical voice, and where/who do you think they originated from in your childhood? Does your inner critic treat your inner child the way your parents treated you?

If you found this heartwork valuable and would like to explore deeper healing, there are additional journal prompts available for free in the Sista Sanctuary.

Click here to join the sistahood today.

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If you’re hysterical, it’s historical! I first heard this phrase in recovery and it helped me explore how my past was leaking into my present.  

If you were hurt as a child without having a safe adult to support and soothe you, you may have buried these layers of pain to cope. If you struggle to love yourself or be in healthy relationships and friendships, it may be your buried childhood wounds being activated. The healing process means educating ourselves with not just what happened to us, but the impact it has on our adult lives so today, I want to share five types of inner child wounds.

1.Abandonment: When a child feels neglected, or unloved by caregivers, this leads to feelings of insecurity, rejection, and fear of abandonment in adulthood.

2.Betrayal: When a child’s trust is violated by caregivers or significant others through deception, dishonesty, or broken promises, this leads to adult, relational mistrust.

3.Humiliation: When a child is shamed, belittled, or ridiculed by caregivers or authority figures it sets up feelings of worthlessness and a fear of being judged or criticised as an adult.

4.Rejection: When a child is invalidated, dismissed, or not accepted by caregivers or peers, this feeds feelings of inadequacy, shame and fear of rejection.

5.Injustice: When a child experiences unfair treatment, injustice, or victimization by caregivers, peers, or societal systems, this  can lead to self hatred, anger and a sense of powerlessness as an adult. 

Racism, anti-blackness, patriarchy and other oppressive systems, are the abusive, toxic ‘social parents’ that add additional wounding to each of these layers. Healing involves acknowledging, decolonising and processing these early experiences to reframe the relationship with ourselves, others and our culture.

What does inner child work mean for black women? 

If you’re ready to start doing your inner child work, click here to join the Sista Sanctuary where this month’s theme is Justice for Your Inner Child.

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This month’s conversation in the Sacred Sista Sanctuary is about justice for your inner child. Inner child work provides an opportunity to explore how the pain of your past is hurting you today and will continue to bleed into your future without support. Journaling allows us to express and release pent-up emotions and feelings related to our inner child’s experiences. By exploring our thoughts on paper, we can begin to unpack any harmful thought patterns and increase awareness of any emotions trapped in the body.

This week’s heartwork: Reflect on a life changing memory from your childhood that still holds emotional weight. What comes up for you around this memory, and how does it show up in your behavior as an adult?

If you found this heartwork valuable and would like to explore deeper healing, there are additional journal prompts available for free in the Sista Sanctuary. Click here to join the sistahood today.

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With the next Sista Sanctuary session happening on Tuesday evening, I want to give you a sneak peep at some of the heartwork questions we’ll be exploring in this live session.

The theme is Unity in Sistahood and in todays live I explore 4 of the questions we’ll do a deeper dive in on Tuesday…

1. 1. Am I giving enough attention to nurturing and maintaining the sista relationships that matter most to me?

   2. How do relationships with my family of origin impact how I show up in friendships with other black women?

   3. Do I find it hard to let other black women care for me? Why?

   4. How do I envision my ideal inner circle and the role of sistahood in my life? What steps can I take to move closer to this vision.

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One of the things that brought me back into alignment when I felt low and wanting to quit doing my healing work was borrowed  hope. Join me in this live as I explain what it meant to me and how you can use this powerful tool to stay motivated and on track.

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In this live I share the tea about what we will be studying in the Sacred Sista Sanctuary Mastermind this month. The Financial Therapy topics are.

6 July: : Money, deprivation and hoarding. Are you being stingy with yourself?

13 July: Money, jealously and envy. Do you find it hard to celebrate others?

20 July: : Confronting your internal oppressor. How does this part of yourself sabotage your abundance?

27 July: : Exploring the relationship between your self worth and your net worth.

Click here to join us. 

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Last weekend it was a couple of important anniversaries! 8 years for Yard of Greatness and 13 years sober in recovery! To celebrate I’ll be doing 30 days of live streams to share how I did it, self love tips and hacks, encouragement and anything else that is on my heart! At the end I will be having Sacred Sista Sanctuary Healing Circle and open day so if you’ve been thinking about joining my mastermind or want to just come and hang out, join me over these next few weeks and in person to hear more and  celebrate your wins!!!! Full details on the in person event will be shared in tomorrows live.

 

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