An 'innerBoy' is the subconscious version of us. We can't see him, but he holds all our old experiences, specifically the traumatic experiences that made and impact on your life.
This is what your innerBoy is made of. He is often too 'stuck' in those experiences, having not received the proper support or validation when traumatic events occurred, so always remains on high alert to warn us now of things that trigger or remind him of his old pain. That's when he might lash out in childish ways or shut down. He doesn't know how else to regulate his feelings because he wasn't prepared for what took place in the past and no one helped him make sense of it at the time, so he's been in survival mode ever since.
The innerBoy app is a FREE app offering a 30 day healing programme with Matt Brown. The app was birthed out of a desire to make real tools and solutions for men's healing available and accessible for all, because Matt truly believes that when we disrupt dysfunctional patterns and heal ourselves we create healing our children and our family too.
The app can be downloaded here and more information found from Matt's kōrero on the Breakfast show here. Consider the app as a helpful tool or resource for tāne in your community looking for support with healing.
Would you like an online training session with Matt about innerBoy and the opportunity to ask him questions? Comment below - Kōrero Mai!
Highly recommend this app! A resource that helped me enormously in 2023 to level up with my current youthwork practice working with boys and young men. Guiding me to carefully connect to my inner child experiences as an authentic place of connection for those I am working with in group settings and 1-1 mentoring.
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