Healing  ·  7 Modules  ·  19 Lessons  ·  Self-Paced

The Child You Were.

Inner child work for people who hate the phrase.

The child you were is still making decisions for you. You have done the reading. You understand your attachment style. You can trace your patterns to their origins. But understanding has not stopped the pattern. Something closer is required.

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Insights  ·  About the Work
In every adult there lurks a child — an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education.Carl Jung
The child is not gone. The child is still here, making the decisions that the adult does not understand.My Inner Foundation
We heal our childhood not by going back, but by bringing what the child needed into the present.My Inner Foundation
The wound you carry is not evidence of what you deserved. It is evidence of what happened. Those are different things.My Inner Foundation
The Premise

The Child You Were.

Most psychological insight about childhood patterns is intellectual. You understand what happened. You can explain the attachment style, trace the core belief, identify the defence mechanism. And the pattern continues anyway — because understanding it is not the same as meeting the part of you that holds it.

This course does not offer intellectual analysis of childhood patterns. It offers something more specific: contact with the younger parts of yourself that formed in response to what happened, and a structured process for giving them what the environment could not.

Understanding the wound is not the same as healing it. The understanding is necessary. It is not sufficient.
The Course

7 Modules. 19 Lessons.

01
Module 1
The Intelligence of Survival
02
Module 2
The Needs That Went Unmet
03
Module 3
The Conclusions Your Childhood Drew
04
Module 4
The Practice of Contact
05
Module 5
What You Can Provide Now
06
Module 6
Permission to Grieve
07
Module 7
Integration
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The Child You Were.

Inner child work for people who hate the phrase.

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Common Questions

Frequently asked

What is inner child work?

Inner child work refers to therapeutic and psychological approaches that work with the younger parts of the self — the aspects of the person that formed in early experience and continue to influence adult behaviour, often without conscious awareness. This course provides a structured, evidence-informed approach to this work, making it concrete and practical rather than abstract or metaphorical.

Is this course for people who had traumatic childhoods?

The course is relevant for a broader range of childhood experiences than the word 'trauma' typically suggests. Any childhood in which fundamental needs — for attunement, consistency, safety, or being genuinely seen — went unmet will have produced adaptive patterns that this course addresses. You do not need to have experienced acute trauma to find the course useful.

I already understand my childhood patterns intellectually. Why isn't that enough?

Because core beliefs are not stored primarily as thoughts — they are stored as body-level responses. You cannot think your way out of a belief that lives in the nervous system. What changes the belief is corrective experience — the lived experience of being seen, valued, and tended to. Module 4 provides the specific practice of contact that produces this experiential correction.

What is reparenting?

Reparenting is the practice of providing for yourself, as an adult, what adequate parenting would have provided — consistent acknowledgment of feelings, compassionate limits, the experience of being valued for yourself rather than your performance. Module 5 covers this specifically. It is not a substitute for the parenting that was not received, but it is what is available now and has genuine developmental value.

My Inner Foundation
Olivia Fox

A course by Olivia Fox, founder of My Inner Foundation. She writes about what she has lived, worked through herself, and sat with in others — translating real inner work and years of supporting people through these exact struggles into language that is precise, honest, and genuinely useful.

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