7 Modules · 19 Lessons · Self-Paced

The Child You Were.

Inner child work for people who need the idea to feel grounded, practical, and safe.

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.

7Modules
19Lessons
Self-Paced
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Develop a working relationship with the parts of yourself that are still living in the original conditions: not conceptually, but actually.Move beyond understanding into contact
Know specifically which childhood-drawn beliefs are operating as background assumptions in your adult decisions and relationships.Identify the conclusions that are still running
Develop the daily practice of providing for yourself what the childhood did not: not as a cure, but as a consistent, structural change to your relationship with yourself.Build the reparenting practice
People who understand their patterns intellectually but find them unchanged by understandingThis may be for you
Anyone who was told inner child work is soft or superficial, and is now curious about what the serious version looks likeThis may be for you
What this course helps you explore
People who understand their patterns intellectually but find them unchanged by understanding Anyone who was told inner child work is soft or superficial, and is now curious about what the serious version looks like People whose adult life is consistently shaped by decisions that feel younger than their actual age Anyone ready to work with what actually happened, not just understand it Move beyond understanding into contact Identify the conclusions that are still running Build the reparenting practice Grieve what deserves to be grieved
The Premise

The work beneath
The Child You Were.

This course is designed to help you slow the pattern down, understand what is happening underneath it, and begin practising a steadier, kinder way forward. It does not ask you to become someone else. It helps you return to yourself with more clarity, language, and choice.

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.
The Course

7 Modules. 19 Lessons

Each module is a place to understand one layer more clearly. Move slowly. Let the language meet the part of your life that has needed more care, more honesty, and a more hopeful way forward.

01
Module 1
The Intelligence of Survival

The strategies the child developed were not weakness. They were intelligent responses to real conditions. This module reframes the adaptations with accuracy before asking them to change.

02
Module 2
The Needs That Went Unmet

A specific, honest inventory: not what was done to you, but what was not provided. The attunement, the safety, the permission to be fully yourself. Understanding the absence as clearly as the harm.

03
Module 3
The Conclusions Your Childhood Drew

Every child makes meaning from what happens to them. Some conclusions drawn early — I am too much, I am not enough, I am not safe to need — can keep running quietly in adult life until they are met with care.

04
Module 4
The Practice of Contact

Not a visualisation exercise but a genuine relational practice: making contact with the part of yourself that is still carrying the original wound. What that actually requires and what it makes possible.

05
Module 5
What You Can Provide Now

Reparenting not as a concept but as a daily practice: the physical care, the emotional attunement, the internal voice that speaks to yourself the way a good-enough parent would have.

06
Module 6
Permission to Grieve

The grief that arrives when you understand clearly what was not there. Not performed, not rushed, not converted into forgiveness before it has been felt. The grief that has been waiting.

07
Module 7
Integration

The child you were does not need to be fixed, dismissed, or left behind. They need to be brought forward: held by the adult you have become, and no longer asked to make decisions from a position of fear.

Begin when you are ready

The Child You Were.

Inner child work for people who need the idea to feel grounded, practical, and safe.

Start the Course — Included with Membership

Included with your My Inner Foundation membership.

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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A gentle note before you begin

My Inner Foundation courses are educational and reflective. They are not therapy, diagnosis, medical advice, or crisis support. If you are in immediate danger or need urgent mental-health support, please contact local emergency services or a qualified professional.

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