Inner Child

Instructions from the book: . 

1. Remember yourself as a preteen. What did you like to wear? Who did you pretend to be? What were your favorite things to do, eat, and play?
2 . Use your non-dominant hand to write a letter from your eight-year-old self to yourself today. What would you like to tell your adult self?

 

1. As a child I was quiet, obstinate and sometimes aggressive. After I left the group of children who played on my street I would play by myself, read stories and fairy tales, draw, paint, watch cartoons in Italian and English and humiliate my desk mate for being grose. I didn't like to wear skirts, I pretended to cook mud and give people grapes as medicine. 

2. Dear Sabina. People are fucked up. You are going to learn this when you are older. Keep creating in order to not be as fucked up as them. Eat healthy, choose your friends carefully,  exercise, devour books and comedy, be grateful for what you have, do what you enjoy. Life can be simple if you put your mind to it. Take care, your older Sabina.

 

Questions for Discussion:
· What message does your inner child want to tell you?
· Are you giving yourself time to play as an adult?
· If your inner child is in need of healing, what do they want to experience?

 

My inner child is trying to tell me to be more assertive. I have enough time to play as an adult: I am doing it right now. My inner child wants to experience happiness, a real moment of joy.