Inner child work is when you work towards healing your childhood trauma, limiting beliefs, and heal and integrate your inner child. You get to know and accept yourself on such a deep level. It’s an arduous but very rewarding journey. This level of healing and introspection brings up a lot of emotions, and working with certain crystals can help ease the changes and emotions on the journey.
Here are some crystals you can work with. As always, use your intuition to choose the best stones for you.
-Rose Quartz represents love, compassion, warmth, emotional well-being, harmony, healing of the heart from emotional stress, self-love, and gentleness. It is particularly helpful for people struggling to regulate their anger or frustration. It’s associated with the heart and throat chakras and is a powerful stone. It’s a stone that very much represents nurturing, divine feminine energy as well. This is one of the best crystals I can recommend for inner child healing. Especially if your inner child needs a nurturing, comforting energy. The energy of rose quartz feels like a warm hug.
-Moonstone is another great one. It has a maternal comfort to it that some inner child may be craving. Both peach and white moonstone work equally well. Moonstone is a stone of hope, emotional regulation, intuition, calm, harmony, and peace. It’s often used in working on new beginnings. It’s helping when you need help balancing your thoughts and feelings.
-Amethyst is most often used for calm mind, tranquility, and grounding. It’s also known for abundance, intuition, balancing emotions, and connecting to your highest self. It's a highly grounding stone and is perfect for shielding the energy of highly sensitive people (empaths). Since inner child work has a lot to do with intuition and channeling your inner child within, this can be helpful. It's particularly helpful when dealing with anxious thoughts and feelings.
-Lepidolite is known for its emotional healing, serenity, and balancing properties and is great for working with the heart chakra. It is used to help dispel anxious thoughts. It naturally has lithium in it which is why It's so helpful for easing big emotions and anxiety. This is another very comforting stone.
-Orange Calcite is said to enhance creativity and help with emotional balance. It is also said to promote positive thoughts and happiness in the user. It is said to have a balancing effect on emotions and help dispel fear, anxiety, and depression. It’s most often used for its boost to creativity, motivation, focus, and energy. Often times our inner children ask us to be creative and artistic and express ourselves in ways we did as a child.
-Tiger's Eye balances yin-yang energy and energizes the emotional body. It is said to lift your spirits and improve your mood. It has a frequency that helps with confidence, motivation, self-worth, believing in yourself, and joy. It is also Proctective and grounding. If you struggle with self-worth, this is a great stone to have.
-Green Aventurine is associated with the heart chakra, which is primarily where your inner child energy resides (and in your root). Some people use it to aid in removing emotional blockages in their heart chakra. It can be helpful to work with when you need help processing emotions or going through a loss or break up. When going through inner child healing, it can bring up grief and some really hard memories to face so this is a great stone to use during this process.
-Prehnite is also associated with the heart chakra. This is one of my favorite stones for processing stuck or large emotions. It is known for its calming and soothing energy, as well as reducing stress and anxiety. It promotes inner peace and harmony, making it an excellent stone for meditation and spiritual growth.
-Rhodochrosite is a really powerful stone, it's got a punch to it. It really helps with self-love and compassion and processing large transitions in your life. This stone really encourages you to accept your whole self and be gentle with how you talk to yourself.
-Blue Calcite has a very calming energy. It is associated with the throat chakra, so it helps with self-expression and setting boundaries that help protect us. It really helps soothe big emotions as well.
There are so many crystals you can use during your healing journey. Hopefully this helped narrow some choices down for you and give you some ideas of which stones can be most helpful.