Healing the Inner Child - Leonarda - ACA Speaker

Leonarda shares their journey of reconnecting with their inner child after a childhood marked by emotionally immature parents. Through somatic therapy, they learned to set boundaries and allow their inner child to express needs, realizing that self-sufficiency was a survival mechanism developed early on. This realization led to understanding that while their father couldn’t provide the emotional connection they craved, those needs are valid and can be met by present-day relationships, shifting focus from external validation to authentic self-connection.