As a hypnotherapist, it is time to embark on the journey of healing your client's inner child. This is a pivotal step in their path toward self-love and emotional well-being, and it can evoke very deep emotions.
Once the cords are cut and the person who wronged them has been faced, have your client's adult self kneel down and pick up their little self. Have them hold the child. Have the adult tell the child, in their own words, that it was not their fault. That they were not too much, not unlovable, not bad. Talking to their little self and explaining how it was not their fault, or how wrong they were to believe they are not good enough, produces profound results.
Here the client realizes that their inner child was not to blame and should not feel shame. This technique gives them the understanding that it wasn't their fault. It shows them how very vulnerable they were — looking at themselves as a defenseless child who felt unprotected and unsafe. They can see how powerless and helpless they were.
It is right here where the process begins to let them truly comprehend where their limiting beliefs began — their fears of being unsafe, their beliefs that love hurts, their limiting belief that they are not good enough, unworthy, or unlovable. Every belief that has been running the client's adult life was written in a moment just like this one.
Now have your client hug their little self and absorb the child into their heart. That absorption is not a metaphor to the subconscious. It is the moment the split heals — the child is finally welcomed home, safe, inside the adult who can now protect them. Sit with your client while this happens. Do not rush it.
Short, gentle acknowledgments are enough: "You're safe now." "I'm right here." "Let it move through." Your job is not to fix anything. It is to be the steady, loving witness while the client's own soul does the healing.
A note on what you are about to see. The clip below is a real Zoom session, shared with the client's permission. His name has been removed. He came to me because he was having nightmares about being an infant, and had wet the bed the night before the session. In regression, the memory that surfaced was this: as a baby, he was left alone in his crib while his mother went out to a bar. He cried, and he soiled himself. No one came. As you watch, notice how little prompting is needed once the client is in the truth of the memory, and how the body finishes what the mind could not.
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The outcome. After this session, the nightmares stopped. The bed-wetting stopped. The subconscious no longer had to replay the scene, because the need underneath it had finally been met — the baby was seen, the adult self came back for him, and the wound was held. That is the measure of this work: not how dramatic the release looks in the moment, but whether the symptom finally quiets because the original wound has been loved. When you hold the child with presence, the present-day symptom lets go on its own.
Practice
Write, in your own words, the exact sentence you will say to a client's little self after the release: naming that it was not their fault, that they are safe now, and inviting the child into the adult's heart. Read it aloud until it feels natural in your mouth.