The meaning behind my tattoo goes a lil something like this…

For YEARS I felt like I had to put my childhood’s spirit to rest in order to move forward with my life.  But after briefly sharing my story to a WISE woman,  I realized I was going about things completely wrong.  The following are her words that brought me to tears and helped me more than any other form of therapy 

“When we are abused our spirt and body separate, and we must integrate them back as soon as possible. Often times we disassociate and disengage from ourselves.

It is not the inner child you want to put to rest it is the incident you want to let go of. In a ways we sometimes hold onto our traumas and even though we heal and move forward we keep it there for occasional moments where we cling back it and it holds us back. I know the mind and spirit are complicated. Your childhood was abrutlly altered, therefore changing many things in your life.

It would be more of healing that inner child. Nursing her back to health to where she feels safe and comfortable to come out and play again. It is welcoming her back into this world, reintegrating her back into yourself. Because she left at that moment because it was no longer safe to exist. So yes it is a funeral for that moment in your life and it is a rebirth of your inner child, because you need her.”