TCAI Stage One: Meet this Child

13b Meet this Inner Child... Again, your infant self may carry pain, but it also carries joy, wonder, and a sense of newness. You may gain a better awareness of these as you complete the work here. These meetings with your inner children can be emotional. Sometimes it’s like meeting a stranger. Sometimes it’s like meeting an old friend. Journal Assignments Listen regularly until you get to know and feel connected to this part of you. Record your responses to the experience in the Journal Assignment above. Download the PDF 13b (above) to your computer/phone or copy the contents to your Penzu Online Journal. End the experience by asking your infant self to help you find a photograph or a picture from a magazine that looks like him or her. Paste or tape this picture into your journal so you can look at it and began to ask more in-depth questions. Then write about how this picture makes you feel.