Limitations of the Inner Child

About the deck

A deck about the walls and fences inside that once protected a child and now hold an adult in place.

The deck holds 80 metaphorical associative cards with images of barriers, fences, symbolic and natural boundaries, buildings and bridges.

All the cards share one meaning: they show what blocks the inner child, takes away natural strength and basic energy, stops a person, holds them apart, and puts an obstacle between them and their goal or between them and other people.

The task of the deck is to help you see a boundary that lies deep and goes unnoticed, to understand how it is built, where it came from and what it means, and then decide whether to cross it or to respect it.

An important point about this work: not every boundary needs removing. Some limitations act as a stop sign and warn about what is genuinely dangerous.

The deck can be used as a deep clarifying, deepening, resourcing, transformational and supporting tool in counseling, therapy, training and psychological transformation games.

With the “Limitations of the Inner Child” deck you can

• see what limits a person deep inside
• understand which obstacles stand between you and your goal
• give your inner barriers an image and recognize them
• understand what a particular boundary protects you from
• see where the barriers were laid down in childhood, and by whom
• find a way out of a hard situation by removing an unnecessary limitation
• learn to tell an outdated ban from reasonable caution
• see the boundary you do need and should strengthen
• understand that many limitations applied only to a small child
• take back your right to move where it used to be forbidden

Questions to ask the deck

Work starts from these questions. Choose one, the one that speaks to you more strongly than the rest, and work with it, because only one boundary is examined well in a single session.

1. What limits me on the way to my goal?
2. Which boundary stands between me and another person?
3. Which barrier am I not aware of?
4. What does this limitation protect me from?
5. Who laid this ban down in me?
6. What will happen if I cross this boundary?
7. Which boundary do I need and never set?
8. Where do I always stop at the same place?
9. What do I consider impossible for myself?
10. Which limitation stopped being relevant long ago?
11. What have I forbidden myself since childhood?
12. Where do I need a stop sign and keep ignoring it?

The whole series

“World of the Inner Child” is 12 decks that work as a single system: anchors of the past, deficits, childhood influences, psychological defenses, healing, beliefs, limitations, resources and pillars.

See the whole series →