Does Your Inner Child Hunger for Love?

Stephanie Riseley Hypnotherapy Los Angeles

Does Your Inner Child Hunger for Love?

Is Your Angry Inner Teenager Sabotaging You? Is Your Attachment Style Deranged?

Healing from childhood trauma isn’t easy or a one-size-fits-all deal. Over the years, I’ve helped hundreds of people heal the trauma created by having troublesome, non-responsive, or irresponsible parental units. I have clients who were raised in destructive, abusive cults, raised by drug addicts, or tyrannized into being the perfect child by well-meaning immigrant parents desperate to succeed in a confusing new world.

Healing takes time. Imagine a toddler’s world, where dependence is absolute and emotional wounds can leave horrible scars. Yes, that’s true. However, the latest brain science suggests that you can learn to re-parent yourself and heal that inner child.

Perhaps your angry inner-teenage self tyrannizes you. Are you always rebelling against authority? Do you spin your wheels criticizing the way the world works? Do you have an angry inner teenager who hates authority because you had unreliable caretakers? It is not your fault – but on a soul level, it was your choice. And you can change!

How can I help you heal?

Hypnotherapy, Cognitive Behavior Therapy, Mindfulness, and Past-Life Regression can help you change the structure of your brain and heal old belief systems lodged in your subconscious mind.

You can rewrite your brain and rewrite the memories that trap you into feeling like a victim. Just because your mother wasn’t able to love you doesn’t mean that you are destined to feel betrayed or abandoned. In that case, your attachment style will always be on red alert – or “anxious avoidant.” You can change that into feeling secure.

Firstly, hypnotherapy takes you to a state of deep relaxation and focused concentration, helping you unlock the doors to your subconscious mind. By combining hypnotherapy, awareness therapy, and inner-child work, you can delve into the deeply rooted memories and begin reshaping them. You learn how to nurture yourself. Develop love and compassion for your inner child. Imagine transforming your brain’s “I can’t” into a chill “Wow! I got this!”

Then, Cognitive Behavior Therapy helps you identify sabotaging thoughts and beliefs and replace them with empowering, positive ones. You can learn how to question your own faulty beliefs and change them. That process changes the structure of your brain and your body’s own hormone regulation. Negative beliefs create damaging chemicals that can ultimately ruin your health. Depression can be debilitating, but you can change your brain and heal.

Mindfulness cultivates self-awareness and emotional regulating. That can help you soothe your own inner child. UCLA’s Daniel Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology proves that the mind, brain, and relationships are inextricably linked. Early relationships sculpt your neural pathways, but you can learn techniques to rewire them. It’s like updating old software. Don’t you want to replace your outdated, maladaptive responses with healthier ones? Know that you can create secure attachments by changing your brain.

Past-Life Regression helps you see things from a different perspective and let go of old wounds. Brian Weiss, MD, who trained me more than twenty years ago, led me to a past life where I saw firsthand why my mother never liked me. At my birth, we looked into each other’s eyes, and instead of love, there was fear.

In a past-life regression, I saw that in ancient times, I was a vain, handsome Incan Priest, whose job it was to ceremonially behead a captured, angry king. Four warriors brought him, angry and struggling, to me. I took his long hair, pulled out the ceremonial sword, then looked into his eyes. I took off his head! Whoops!! That was my mother! No wonder she never liked me! I had killed her in that past life. That pivotal experience allowed me to forgive her for so much abuse, and I let go of years of entitled anger. (According to 12 years of talking therapy!) Let it go now!

For you? Ultimately, the journey to heal your “angry inner teenager” and the “sad inner three-year-old” is deeply personal. It requires courage, self-compassion, and willingness to explore the hidden landscapes of your inner world.

If you are ready to heal the wounds of your past and move into a brighter tomorrow, please call me. (323) 933-4377

Sending you love,

Stephanie