They say "Welcome to innerBoy. A free men's mental health APP with a guided support program where I facilitate connection to your innerBoy. Here, I treat this like a school of healing for innerBoys.
This is where we learn new ways of how now to make sense of our inner world which always impacts our outer world in many ways.
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 a big impact on your life.
This is what your innerBoy is made of. He is too often ‘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.
Inner child work has been an important tool for me that taught me how to heal and understand my childhood traumatic experiences better. I practice this in my life as I need to and it has been a transformative part of my own life." Matt Brown co-founder of She Is Not Your Rehab and InnerBoy.nz