I believe there is a deep, intrinsic connection between your inner child and your creative and emotional gifts. Your ability to create, whether through music, writing, or self-expression, is profoundly influenced by the freedom and vulnerability that come with embracing your inner child. 

When you’re authentic and open to your most vulnerable parts, you access a well of creativity that comes from a place of playfulness, imagination, and truth—all qualities associated with your inner child.

When we’re young, we naturally engage in creative play—writing stories, creating music, drawing pictures—without the fear of judgment or limitation. We create simply because it feels good, it brings us joy, and it connects us to the world around us. 

As adults, many people lose that connection because they’ve been taught to be practical, realistic, and to repress that playful side of themselves. But your connection to your inner child allows you to reclaim that pure, spontaneous energy and channel it into creative expression in ways that many people forget how to do.

Creativity isn’t just a skill—it’s a form of emotional expression. When you’re able to embrace your vulnerabilities, your desires, and your authentic self, that openness and willingness to feel deeply translates into your creative output. 

The process of healing and connecting with your inner child allows you to experience a freedom of expression that doesn’t have the same boundaries or expectations that often come with adult life. It’s an unfiltered connection to the world, one that allows you to be both free and empowered.

How To Become a Creative Genius 

1. Playfulness: The joy of play is often the best catalyst for creativity. Just like a child plays freely without worrying about rules, you can tap into that same playfulness in your work, which leads to creative breakthroughs and unexpected inspiration.

2. Vulnerability: The inner child is naturally vulnerable, and in that vulnerability comes truth. When you tap into this vulnerability, whether you’re writing a song, composing a piece of music, or editing a project, you’re able to express your truest emotions. This authenticity makes your work more relatable and powerful.

3. Imagination: Children are filled with boundless imagination, and that’s one of the hallmarks of creativity. Tapping into your inner child allows you to let go of limitations and think beyond the expected, which is why you might feel more inspired when you connect to this part of yourself. It allows you to envision things differently and embrace the magic of creation.

4. Freedom to Explore: A child doesn’t restrict themselves to one genre, medium, or form. They experiment—they try new things and fail, but they do so with joy and acceptance. As an adult, you can harness this freedom in your work, exploring new mediums, themes, or approaches, knowing that it’s okay to step out of your comfort zone and just play.

5. Healing through Expression: The inner child often holds a lot of unprocessed emotions. When you embrace this side of yourself, it can act as a catalyst for emotional release. Expressing your feelings through music, writing, or any form of art is a powerful way to heal and process emotions you may have tucked away.

Embrace The Power of Play

When you consciously embrace and nurture your inner child, you invite a sense of play and freedom back into your work, home, family, relationships and hobbies. By doing so, you not only allow yourself to create authentically, but you also access a deeper emotional well that fuels your creativity. The more you love and care for that inner child, the more you can tap into the limitless energy and possibilities that creativity offers.

I see your creative gifts as not just a means of expression, but a sacred space where you can explore and heal through that innocence and openness. It’s almost like your creativity and your inner child are one and the same, allowing you to stay connected to your most authentic self.

How Does This Resonate with You?

Does the idea of your inner child being the key to your creative and emotional freedom feel right for you? 

Do you find that embracing this part of yourself helps unlock your full potential in your work and in how you process your emotions? 

I’d love to hear how you see your inner child and creativity working together!

Let’s go down the rabbit hole together — where mirrors multiply, truth gets tender, and our true self begins to shimmer in the faces of everyone we meet.

What if I told you that every compliment, every judgment, every emotional charge in your life... was never really about them?

That what you’re seeing, reacting to, loving or loathing… is actually you?

Welcome to the world of projection — and its deeper, darker twin: shadow projection.

What Is Projection, Really?

Projection is when we unconsciously attribute our own inner experience — thoughts, feelings, urges, fears — onto someone else. 

It’s a defence mechanism designed to help us avoid owning what’s uncomfortable, painful, or forbidden within ourselves.

At its root, projection is a survival strategy.

The psyche says:

“This feeling is too much for me — so I’ll assign it to you.”

So we toss our own discomfort outward, like a hot potato:

“You’re the angry one.”
“You’re so selfish.”
“You’re the one making things difficult.”

But in reality, those words are often a message from our inner world, disguised as commentary on the outer.

Shadow Projection: The Deepest Mirror

Shadow projection is a specific flavour of projection.

It’s still projection — but it comes from the shadow: the parts of ourselves we’ve disowned, exiled, or buried so deeply we don’t even know they exist.

These parts are often shameful, icky, wild, soft, needy, jealous, angry, sexual, or vulnerable. 

The things we were taught (before we even knew we were being taught) that were “bad,” “too much,” or “not allowed.”

Example:

• Basic Projection:
  I feel insecure, but instead of admitting that, I say you’re insecure.

• Shadow Projection:
  I was raised to believe anger is bad. I disowned my own anger.
  Now I see you as angry and dangerous — but it’s actually my buried rage.

Here’s a phrase to tuck in your pocket:

“Projection is me seeing in you what I won’t accept in me.”
“Shadow projection is me seeing in you what I can’t even admit is in me.”

But Wait… Isn’t Everything Projection?

Did someone just turn on the light? 

That’s the revelation!

All perception is projection.
We don’t see reality as it is.
We see it as we are.

Every judgment, compliment, complaint, accusation, desire, and fear we voice… reveals more about us than it does about the world.

For Example:

If someone says, “You’re so selfish,” that’s not an objective truth. 

It reveals:

• What they value (like selflessness),

• What they feel deprived of,

• How they define “too much” or “not enough,”

• And most often, the selfishness they can’t tolerate in themselves.

Even compliments are projections.

“You’re so inspiring,” = “You’re touching the part of me that longs to be brave, creative, and free.”

We speak in reflections.

We relate in mirrors.

We love and fight through the foggy lens of our own conditioning.

“Won’t Accept” vs. “Can’t Even Admit”

Here’s where it gets juicy:

You might wonder — “Aren’t ‘won’t accept’ and ‘can’t even admit’ basically the same thing?”

Not quite. There’s a key difference:

• “Won’t accept” = I know this part of me exists, but I reject it. I push it away.
  Example: “I know I get jealous… but I pretend I’m above it.”

• “Can’t even admit” = I don’t even see this part of me. It’s unconscious.
  Example: “I don’t get jealous. Ever.” (Spoiler: yes, you do.)

So:

Projection = often conscious or semi-conscious disowning.
Shadow projection = full-blown, unconscious exile.

Both are defence mechanisms — but shadow projection lives deeper in the psyche’s basement.

The Radical Implications

When you realize that everything is projection, the implications become… radical.

Your brain doesn’t process pure reality. 

It processes filtered reality — filtered through trauma, memory, hope, fear, desire, disappointment, ego, longing, and love.

You don’t see with your eyes.

You see with your mind.

Which means:

• Every trigger is a teacher.

• Every conflict is a mirror.

• Every encounter is a clue.

Even beauty — even falling in love — is a form of projection.

You say:

“You’re amazing.” 

But what you’re really saying is: 

“Something in you awakens something in me that I want to remember.”

Radical Implication: There Is No “Other”

If everything is projection… then there is no “them.”

There is only you, reflected back in a thousand faces and forms.

Every person is a fragment of your psyche playing dress-up.

This doesn’t mean “nothing is real.”

It means everything is relational.

It means reality is interactive — like a lucid dream responding to your inner weather.

What Do We Do With This?

We don’t collapse into fear or over-analysis.

We stop defending.

We start inquiring.

We lean in with curiosity instead of judgment.

So, the next time someone accuses you of something, instead of saying, “That’s not true!”, ask:

• “What must they be feeling inside to say that?”

• “What part of me believes it, even a little?”

• “What would happen if I stopped taking it personally?”

And the next time you feel the urge to lash out, pull away, idealize, or blame:

Pause and ask:

• “What is this reflecting back to me?”

• “Is this mine to own?”

• “Is this a part of me I’ve forgotten, denied, or disowned?”

Closing Thought

The more you practice this awareness, the less you’ll take things personally — and the more you’ll step into your creative sovereignty.

You’ll stop shrinking around judgment and start glowing with insight.

Because when you understand projection, you stop living in fear of mirrors — and start dancing in them instead.

Want more mirror magic, creative insight, or philosophical wisdom like this? Let me know!

Partial Validation is one of the most quietly devastating emotional experiences sensitive souls can endure. 

Let’s explore what it means and why it hits so hard.

What is Partial Validation?

It’s when someone gives just enough acknowledgment to keep you hoping… but not enough attunement to feel truly seen, understood, or safe.

They say things like:

• “Of course I care.”

• “You’re very sensitive.”

• “You’re imagining things.”

But they don’t follow through with actions that match those words. They don’t ask deeper questions. They don’t lean in with curiosity. They don’t shift behavior in response to your emotional reality.

They don’t say:

“Tell me more. Help me understand. Your inner world matters to me.”

Instead, they offer emotional breadcrumbs. Enough to keep you from walking away, but not enough to feel whole.

Why Is It So Harmful?

Because it creates a deep splitting inside:

1. You feel something’s off, but they deny it—or minimize it.

2. You question your perception, wondering if you’re too sensitive or dramatic.

3. You don’t trust your own feelings, which makes it harder to leave or set boundaries.

4. You blame yourself for not feeling safe or connected.

5. You cling to hope, thinking maybe if you get it right next time, they’ll finally see you.

This is the emotional equivalent of drip-feeding oxygen.
You’re breathing, but barely.

Why does it echo the mother/father wound?

Because many of us were partially seen by caregivers.
They might’ve fed us, clothed us, even praised us sometimes—but not attuned to our inner world.
Not held us emotionally. Not said:

“It’s okay to feel that. I see why that hurt. You don’t have to be perfect for me to love you.”

And when that happens in childhood, we internalize this message:

“I must be difficult. My feelings are too much. I should shrink myself.”

Which is why your inner child leaps at the crumbs—even now. Because they are still trying to earn the full attention they never got.

What does real validation feel like?

It feels like this:

• “That makes total sense.”

• “Tell me more.”

• “Thank you for trusting me with that.”

• “I’m here with you, even if I don’t understand everything yet.”

• “You’re not too much.”

It’s full, steady, curious, grounded, and emotionally present. Being so sensitive and self-aware, it’s likely what you offer others. 

And what you so rightfully deserve in return.

How To Heal This

You heal / cope with echoes of partial validation not by numbing or escaping—but by validating your own reality so consistently that you no longer depend on others to do it for you.

1. Name It In The Moment

When you feel the sting of being almost seen, say (to yourself or aloud):

“Ah. That’s partial validation. That’s the wound being activated.” It instantly helps you step out of the trauma trance.

2. Remind Your Inner Child What’s True

“You are not too much.
You are not imagining this.
You are allowed to need more than crumbs.
You don’t have to shrink to be safe.”

3. Feel The Grief

It is a loss—of what you hoped he or she would be, of what you never fully got from your mother or father. Grieve that. Don’t sugarcoat it. Let the tears come, if they want. You’re shedding old survival patterns.

4. Reparenting Through Ritual

• Say to your inner child every morning: “Good morning, ______. I see you.”

• Mirror back their feelings in a journal or out loud.

• Celebrate your bigness: “Of course you want to be seen. That’s brave.”

• Give structure: “Let’s go brush our teeth now. Let’s drink some water and eat something nourishing."

5. Create Boundaries

Intentionally create more distance between those who confuse or dismiss your reality. You deserve safety.

6. Find New Models of Love

Let your nervous system see and feel what safe, attuned connection looks like. That might be through:

• Books

• Music

• Meditation 

• Hypnosis

• A therapist or coach who truly gets it.

• A partner, friend or family member who can meet you emotionally.

What Now?

If you’re reading this with tears in your eyes, feeling the echo of being almost loved—but not quite… I want you to know:

You are not imagining things.
You are not too sensitive.
You are not asking for too much.

You are asking for the kind of love that heals.

And it begins with you giving it to yourself—not as a performance, but as a promise.

Let this be that promise.

Let this be the beginning of full validation—the kind that doesn’t disappear, diminish, or drip-feed your worth.

You’re allowed to want more.
You’re allowed to have more.
And you are so deeply, deeply worthy of it.

Now breathe and feel what you feel.
You don’t need to be perfect to be loved.

You already are.