Inner Child Healing: Finding Your Childhood Safe Place
The Place That Saved Me as a Little Girl, and Helped Heal My Inner Child In Adulthood. When I was a little girl growing up in the Midwest, there was a place I could go where nobody needed anything from me.
A place where I didn't have to be a good daughter, a good student, or a good little girl.
I could simply be me.
It was the library.
I still remember those enormous brass doors at the entrance, the beautiful old hanging lights, and the children's corner where Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, Alice in Wonderland, and all the fairytales waited for me.
I would carry home as many books as my little arms could hold.
And for a while, I could disappear into worlds where magic was possible, where kindness mattered, and where even the smallest creatures could find their way home. And even though I didn't understand it then, I was creating a very special place for my inner child to heal in and return to - in audulthood.
Why Our Childhood Safe Places Matter But here's something I didn't understand until many decades later.
That library wasn't just a place I loved. It was a place where I found something I wasn't getting enough of at home.
Silence. Freedom. Wonder. The permission to exist without having to do or be anything for anyone.
And that realization became the beginning of something very special. The Library became an inner child healing place for the adult me.
📚 Back to the Library: A Five-Part Reparenting Journey
I created this YouTube series to help you rediscover the places where your younger self felt safe — and understand what those places were trying to tell you.
Together, we explore five gentle steps toward coming home to yourself:
1. The Library — Remembering the place where your younger self could finally exhale.
2. What Your Safe Place Was Trying to Tell You — Discovering the unmet needs hidden inside your childhood sanctuary.
3. What If You Never Had One? — For those who never had a safe place, and deserve to begin creating one now.
4. Bringing Your Future Into the Library — Meeting the person you're becoming and inviting that future into your healing.
5. Building Your Library Right Now — Creating small, everyday moments of safety, comfort, and belonging.
And here's what I especially want you to know.
You don't have to have had a happy childhood to create a more peaceful adulthood.
📺 WATCH THE COMPLETE FIVE-PART YOUTUBE SERIES
🌿 A Healing Companion for Your Journey
I also created something to help you take the healing a little deeper.
Back to the Library — The Complete Healing Collection Workbook
This collection brings together all five episode guides, including:
Gentle teachings to help you understand your childhood experiences
Journal prompts to reconnect with your younger self
Somatic practices to explore safety and calm in your body
Reiki-inspired spiritual invitations to support your healing journey
You can work through the collection slowly, one episode at a time, returning whenever you need a little comfort, reflection, or reassurance.
📖 EXPLORE THE COMPLETE HEALING COLLECTION
CLICK TO SEE BOOK The Complete Five-Guide Collection — $12.99
What About Your Inner Child? Before I go, may I ask you something?
Where did the little you go when the world felt too big?
Was it a library? A grandmother's kitchen? A treehouse? A garden? Maybe a favorite book or a world you created in your imagination?
And if you didn't have such a place, what might it look like to create one for yourself today?
Just let the question sit gently beside you.
Because that little one inside you still deserves somewhere to rest.
And you, beloved, are becoming the person who can welcome them home.
With so much love,
Devin Mills Certified Life Coach | Reiki Master | Generational Cycle Breaker The Reparenting Guide
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