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Rebuild, Restore, Reparent
Home Within: A Creative Inner Child Healing Journey 18 Oct
This unique group therapy workshop combines the powerful principles of John Bradshaw’s Inner Child Healing programme Homecoming with creative, hands-on therapeutic work.
Rooted in deep emotional exploration, participants are guided through reconnecting with and nurturing their inner child- gently addressing unmet needs, early emotional wounds, and the longing for safety, connection, and belonging. A key element of the programme is the creation of a miniature house, symbolising the home the inner child always needed.
Paulina
Wendy
🏡 Home Within: Rebuild, Restore, Reparent
A creative, trauma-informed journey to reconnect with your inner child.
Have you ever felt like a part of you is stuck in the past- longing to be heard, held, or healed? Do emotional triggers sometimes feel bigger than the situation? You may be experiencing the echoes of your wounded inner child.
✨ Introducing: Home Within: A Creative Inner Child Healing Journey
This unique 5-week workshop is a safe, creative space designed to gently guide you through the process of reconnecting with and reparenting your inner child. Inspired by John Bradshaw’s ‘Homecoming’, this programme blends therapeutic insight, creative expression, and compassionate support in a small, neuroaffirmative group setting.
Co-delivered by my colleague Wendy, an experienced former lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Health & Social Care, participants design and build this therapeutic dollhouse as a tactile, symbolic act of care and repair.
This process is both emotionally and creatively transformative, offering a healing space to reimagine, rebuild, and reclaim one’s internal sense of home.
🛠️ What Makes This Workshop Special?
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🧸 Hands-on activity: You’ll build a Room to Bloom- a miniature home (like a doll’s house) to symbolise the safety, nurture, and comfort your inner child may have missed. All skill levels welcome!
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🪴 Creative self-reflection: Use of guided meditation, narrative, and group connection to explore old patterns and unmet needs. You share only what you are comfortable with!
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🧠 Therapeutic grounding: Sessions are underpinned by evidence-based, trauma-informed practices including person-centred, relational, and integrative therapy. A small group, so there's enough time for everyone to benefit from it.
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💛 Co-led by experienced facilitators: The programme is facilitated by Paulina, a psychotherapist specialising in inner child work and neurodivergence, alongside Wendy, a former Early Years lecturer and creative guide. Expertise you can trust!
🌱 Therapeutic Objectives – Inner Child Series: “Home Within:
Rebuild, Restore, Reparent”
1. Reconnect with the Inner Child
To support participants in safely accessing and identifying with the wounded parts of themselves rooted in early developmental experiences.
2. Build Emotional Awareness and Language
To develop greater emotional insight and vocabulary, helping participants recognise, name, and express inner child needs, feelings, and unmet longings.
3. Foster Compassionate Self-Understanding
To cultivate self-compassion and reduce shame by understanding the origins of limiting beliefs, survival strategies, and emotional triggers.
4. Explore and Reframe Childhood Narratives
To gently revisit and reprocess key formative experiences through creative and reflective methods, aiming to release internalised guilt, fear or confusion.
5. Develop Reparenting Tools
To empower participants with practical strategies for meeting their own unmet emotional needs through inner nurturing, boundary setting, and self-soothing practices.
6. Strengthen Self-Worth and Identity
To rebuild a secure internal sense of self-worth and identity, separate from childhood roles, coping mechanisms, or past invalidation.
7. Enhance Relational Patterns
To increase awareness of how early attachment wounds affect current relationships, and to develop healthier patterns of connection, trust, and autonomy.
8. Create a Safe Inner and Outer Environment
To externalise and symbolise safety and nurturing through creative activities (e.g. therapeutic house-building), helping participants visualise a safe "home within".
9. Encourage Integration and Growth
To help participants integrate the wounded and adaptive parts of themselves into a more cohesive, whole identity—able to move forward with greater clarity and resilience.
10. Facilitate Group Belonging and Shared Healing
To foster a compassionate group environment where shared experiences validate individual healing and reduce feelings of isolation or “brokenness”.
WOUNDED CHILD QUESTIONNAIRE
This reflective tool is designed to help you explore the extent to which your inner child may be holding onto unresolved wounds.
Answer each question honestly with 'Yes' or 'No' and count the number of 'Yes' answers.
■ IDENTITY
■ I experience anxiety and fear when thinking about doing something new.
■ I am a people pleaser.
■ I am a rebel. I feel alive when I am in conflict.
■ Somewhere deep, I feel there is something wrong with me.
■ I am a hoarder—I have trouble letting go of anything.
■ I feel inadequate as a woman/man/person.
■ I am confused about my sexual identity.
■ I feel guilty when I stand up for myself and would rather give in to others.
■ I have trouble starting things.
■ I have trouble finishing things.
■ I rarely have a thought of my own.
■ I continually criticise myself for being inadequate.
■ I consider myself a terrible person who deserves to be punished.
■ I am rigid and perfectionistic.
■ I feel like I never get anything right.
■ I feel like I really don’t know what I want.
■ I am driven to be a superachiever.
■ I believe I don’t really matter except when I am sexual. I am afraid that I will be rejected and abandoned
if I am not a good lover.
■ My life is empty; I feel depressed a lot of the time.
■ I don’t really know who I am. I am not sure what my values are or what I think about things.
■■ BASIC NEEDS
■ I am out of touch with my bodily needs. I don’t know when I am tired, hungry or aroused.
■ I don’t like being touched.
■ I often have sex when I don’t really want to.
■ I have had or currently have an eating disorder.
■ I am hung up on oral sex.
■ I rarely know what I feel.
■ I feel ashamed when I get mad.
■ I rarely get mad, but when I do, I rage.
■ I fear other people’s anger, and I will do almost anything to control it.
■ I am ashamed when I cry.
■ I am ashamed when I am scared.
■ I rarely express unpleasant emotions.
■ I am obsessed with anal sex.
■ I am obsessed with sado/masochistic sex.
■ I am ashamed of my bodily functions.
■ I have sleep disorders.
■ I spend an excessive amount of time looking at pornography.
■ I have exhibited myself sexually in a way that violates others.
■ I am sexually attracted to significantly younger people.
■ I believe that food and/or sex is my greatest need.
■ SOCIAL
■ I basically distrust everyone, including myself.
■ I have been or I am in a relationship with an addict.
■ I am obsessive and controlling in my relationship.
■ I am an addict.
■ I am isolated and afraid of people, especially authority figures.
■ I hate being alone, and I’ll do almost anything to avoid it.
■ I find myself doing what I think others expect of me.
■ I avoid conflict at all cost.
■ I rarely say no to other people’s suggestions and feel that their suggestion is almost an order to be obeyed.
■ I have an overdeveloped sense of responsibility. It is easier for me to be concerned with others than with myself.
■ I often do not say ‘no’ directly and then refuse to do what others ask in a variety of manipulative, indirect, and passive ways.
■ I don’t know how to resolve conflicts with others. I either overpower my opponents or completely withdraw.
■ I rarely ask for clarification of statements I don’t understand.
■ I frequently guess at what other people’s statements may mean and respond based on my guesses.
■ I never felt close to one or both of my parents.
■ I confuse love with pity and tend to love people I can pity.
■ I ridicule myself and others if they make a mistake.
■ I give in easily and conform to the group.
■ I am fiercely competitive and a poor loser.
■ My most profound fear is the fear of abandonment, and I’ll do anything to hold on to a relationship.
If you answered ‘Yes’ to 10 or more questions, it may be time to explore this further in a supportive space.
Consider joining our Inner Child Healing Workshop to begin your journey toward healing and reconnection.
