Yes, I am holding them and loving them as they never received. I am doing my best to be a loving parent.
As a parent to three actual people, my job was to nurture and love them as they grew; to celebrate with them their accomplishments, to see them become successful adults.
I am loving and recognizing my 2-year-old inner child and working his abandonment issues with him as he is growing into a toddler and experiencing new and greater life, as all the other ages of my inner children who got stuck in time through trauma. I do not want my inner children to be stuck at the age of their trauma any longer. I am being the loving parent to them as I was for my terrestrial children.
When my inner children have grown through the ages where they were emotionally frozen in time, I can be a whole person; not a frightened child, not a petulant teen, not even a confused young man without the tools to succeed in life. I can be free to be who I was designed to be.
Until that time, my inner 2-year-old will lay and play on the carpet with my 64-year-old’s granddaughter.
My inner 8-year-old, who was rejected because he could not play sports, will go to my nephew’s house, and play catch with my grand-nephew.
My petulant inner teen will turn up the music with my teen grandchildren and turn them on to the rock and roll of my generation.
I will sit in an ACA meeting with a young adult with an empty box without tools and I will be present and offer myself as teacher.
Every one of those experiences will help me incorporate my program deeper and deeper until I am that whole person I deserve to be.
Stephen G