Notice your connection to the ground.
Close your eyes if you're comfortable.
If not,
You can soft gaze at the floor.
Take some deep breaths and let yourself relax.
Lean to your right and get in touch with your functional adult.
Finding appropriate self-esteem,
Holding appropriate boundaries,
Both internal and external.
Embracing your humanity and all the imperfections that come with being human.
Finding appropriate interdependence and holding all aspects of your life in moderation and balance.
If it feels comfortable,
Put your hand over your heart and check in with your inner children.
What inner children are you currently aware of?
Are you in touch with a younger child?
Are you in touch with an adolescent?
Are you in touch with an inner teenager?
What inner children are present at this time?
What is going on with your inner children in this moment?
Are they relaxed and comfortable?
Are they agitated and upset?
Are they feeling pain and distress?
Are they afraid or angry?
As your functional adult,
Take care and parent your inner children.
Functional adults parent with acceptance,
Nurturance,
And boundaries.
Acceptance.
I understand why you're feeling this way.
Why you're thinking this way.
Why you want to behave in this way.
Given what you have gone through and given how you see the world,
This makes sense.
Nurturance.
I love you unconditionally,
Even though your behaviors,
Thoughts,
Or emotions may be challenging for me in my adult life.
I love you as you are.
Boundaries.
You do not get to be in charge of my adult life,
Emotions,
Behaviors,
Or relationships.
From a place of love,
I am putting boundaries around you so that you can be a child,
An adolescent,
Or a teenager without trying to manage my adult life and responsibilities.
It is not your job anymore.
I,
As the functional adult,
Will take on this responsibility.
How are your inner children responding to your parenting?
Are they appreciative and accepting?
Are they suspicious and untrusting and needing reassurance that you will actually take on these responsibilities and you will consistently show up to care for them?
What situations or experiences are weighing on your inner children at this time,
And how can you,
As your functional adult,
Take over responsibility for these experiences and situations?
When you take over responsibility for these experiences or situations as your functional adult,
Notice if they feel the same,
Or if these situations and experiences feel different when held by your functional adult.
Holding these experiences and situations as your functional adult,
Check in with your inner children.
How are they doing now that they are not carrying these responsibilities?
Take a moment to settle your inner children in to a safe,
Nurturing place.
Perhaps a safe and nurturing place in the infinite expanse of your heart where they can just be children or adolescents or teenagers and not carry the burdens and responsibility of your adult life.
Notice that you are developing a relationship with your inner children.
They may,
From time to time,
Come out and attempt to take over adult responsibilities and situations.
As you develop this relationship,
You will notice when this happens more easily and will more effectively step in to accept,
Nurture,
And contain your inner children while managing these experiences and situations as your functional adult.
Take three deep breaths,
And when you're ready,
Open your eyes and continue with your day,
Bringing your functional adult energy with you.
