Krystal Strotbaum, LMFT

04/15/2025

Everyone can find self soothing through Inner child work - and journaling to your younger self is a great way to do that. Thanks Cookie Monster! 🍪💙

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03/08/2024

💫Inner child reparenting journal prompt 💞

🚪How have you/ someone else busted down your door to “change” your behavior?

🚪Was this through dismissing your own experience / your experience being dismissed by someone else? Were you told to “stop crying”/ stop feeling directly or implicitly, ignored?

🚪Was it through emotional or physical violence or the threat of either? Both?

🌟How can you talk to yourself differently? Reparent yourself?

⭐️Tell yourself you can feel ____, it is okay to feel, you are worthy and important, your feelings are important🌈

⭐️Connect to your own body. Nurture yourself and trust what you feel is important and has a reason to be there.

🌟Can you : Hug yourself? Listen to yourself? love yourself like that little person in you?

🌟Can you allow yourself the space to feel? The privacy? Gift yourself the time to feel to focus just on yourself and your feelings?

🖼️ : The Therapist Parent

01/29/2024

Even though you are not a child, you can still :
🪄honor yourself
🧸soothe yourself
🚂Accept yourself
💚Love yourself
🌟Protect yourself
🌿Take time for yourself
🦄Play, laugh, dream and be imaginative
🫂Reparent yourself and hug yourself

Let yourself be a child and Love yourself through all the parts of your inner child. Love yourself through and during the big feelings and the fun, playful and mindful.

Journal prompt : when do you notice your inner child? When stressed? Asking for help/ reassurance? When you’re scared? When excited / having fun? How do you react to yourself / your feelings? Do you allow yourself to play/ allow yourself to rest? To have mindful moments? Do you shut yourself down? Dismiss yourself? Belittle yourself? What in your history influenced your response to yourself?

🖼️: Murphey sketches

09/02/2023

You deserve to feel like a rainbow jellyfish
❤️🪼🧡🪼💜🪼🩵🪼💛🪼💚

Please yourself, not others, by honoring yourself :
Honoring your peace, honoring your feelings and honoring your body 🪼💜

🪼Journal prompt: when is the riskiest time for your boundaries to slip? Is it with family? At work? Is it a request from someone “in need?” Pressure from someone you care about? When someone appears angry? Is it sexually? Around the holidays?

🪼How do you know your boundaries have been either violated from others or yourself / you have not listened to yourself/ felt unable to SPEAK up? What does it FEEL like physically/ emotionally? What do you tell yourself later about the incident?

🖼️: Self-Love Rainbow

07/07/2023

😼Cat therapy

06/18/2023

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05/30/2023

The messages of love, acceptance and safety we heard as a child from our caregivers and or adult figures are important for :

💖How we view ourselves both as a child and as an adult

💝How we relate to others (partners, friends, co workers, our “world” around us in relationships)

💖How we talk about ourselves and how we connect to ourselves or disconnect from ourselves /others

💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝Journal prompt: How did you feel loved as a child (from important figures)? Was it told to you directly? Was it through food?/ acts of service? / gestures?

⭐️as always - posts do not replace mental health therapy and are either educational or to promote mental health acceptance/ awareness and attending mental health therapy

04/04/2023

🖍 Inner child edits

🖍 How we speak to our own inner child matters

🖍 Journal prompt: how do you talk to younger you /child you? Is that different when child you is triggered?

**As always social media posts are not a replacement for mental health therapy with a provider… Because therapy is cool 😎

Original art graphics 🖼 (minus edits) IG

03/28/2023

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻Be Kind 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻to yourself 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 & 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻let’s be kind 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 to each other 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 you deserve 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻the warmth of kind words 🌻🌻🌻
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 ALWAYS 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

03/17/2023

💚🌱☀️

02/26/2023

Routines are important, especially for positive sleep hygiene habits. We stress this with children, why not our own inner child?

Welcome a younger version of yourself at bedtime and hug a teddy bear tonight, you always deserve a hug 🧸 and to be comforted.

Returning to the childhood habit of cuddling with stuffed animals offers a tender, joyful way to relax and fall asleep.