Who's taking care of who (parts work) · Human Intelligence by Soma+IQ

Who's taking care of who (parts work)

In the day one session I saw an image of me as a very small child, looking at me now as an adult with such worry and fear, with this great sense of this child part of me having to do all the heavy lifting of looking after me. This was very much my role as a child in my family, feeling responsible for everyone else's feeling around me.

As the session progressed I saw this little girl happily climb into my lap and I wrapped my arms around her. She felt soft and warm and relaxed, it was my turn to do the looking after, the adult me is in charge now, she can just be herself and have fun.

I've known in the work I've been doing that I have this outdated sense of being responsible for everyone around me, I hadn't understood that this part had been so exhausted feeling she was responsible for my self care too , and that my adult self, my true self, hadn't been taking up the reins when it came to looking after me.

Thank you for the session, it's had a deep impact xx

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