Inner Child Healing through the 6 lines of human design

The Key to Deconditioning is making friends with your Inner Child

Why the Inner Child?

In Human Design you’ll hear words like DECONDITIONING and HIGHEST ALIGNMENT often, but truthfully, becoming yourself requires healing. It requires healing the shadow, healing from past experiences, and embracing all of the wacky and weird ways you were yourself as a child. In my work as a therapist working with the Inner Child is one of my favourite ways to support clients because when we feel safe, loved, and supported we are able to access our strengths. This is also why you hear me talk about the Moon in Astrology more than I share about any other planet. Your heart, your emotions, your sense of safety in the world is NUMBER ONE in your journey to your highest timeline. You can’t skip this part.

So today I wanted to share some thoughts I have on how to begin the healing journey through the lines of Human Design.

But First,

WTF Are LINES?

By now I’m sure you’ve taken a look at your Human Design Bodygraph.

And if you haven’t…

You’ve also probably noticed that the Human Design goes NUTS for something called PROFILE. This is because your Profile is the character you are here to play - it’s how you will walk through life and tells you a lot about how you will walk on your path. Everyone’s Profile is comprised of two numbers.

It’ll look something like this:

These two numbers are the key to your path, your role, the archetype you will align with most often throughout your life. The first number represents an aspects of yourself that you are conscious of and the second represents your unconscious conditioning (past lives, early childhood experiences, ancestry). The combination of these two numbers can be a key to understanding your potential AND the ways you’re conditioned to run and hide from your own potential. And what I’ve found in working with clients is that the conditioning of these numbers can be so deep that we don’t even realize what is holding us back.

So let’s walk + talk through the 6th lines and what each line could begin to work through on their healing journey.

LINE 1: The Investigator

If you have a 1st line in your Profile you take a curious and cautious approach to life. For you, knowledge is power, and not knowing what is next or what is expected is incredibly tough for you. As a child you might have experienced anxiety when the adults around you kept you in the dark or didn’t answer the questions you had. As a curious little being you needed to be talked through life, you needed to be armed with details and facts and the answers to your most burning questions, and being left in the dark could have conditioned you to fear asking for what you need/ want. It’s important that you understand that your curiosity is a gift and that asking the important questions is how you make sense of the world. Give yourself permission to get all of the information you need before you jump into things and let your inner child run wild with their questions. This is a part of the healing process for you.

LINE 2: The hermit

If you have a 2nd Line in your Profile you are a natural talent and have gifts that are meant to help + support yourself, your community, or the collective. These gifts can be tough for you to see within yourself so other people will often point them out and ask you to share them. If your parents didn’t understand your desire to shy away or keep your gifts to yourself (or not use them at all) you may have been wrongly accused of being unambitious or unmotivated as a child. If this happened to you it’s crucial that you begin to heal and work through any conditioning that you have around these things. It’s common to see 2nd Lines disregarding their natural talents because they want to “prove themselves” but you are here to do what feels easy to you. If it takes too much effort it’s probably not meant to be on your path.

LINE 3: The martyr

If you have a 3rd Line in your Profile you are an expander. You are here to find new solutions to old problems and will have a life that has a lot of trial and error within it. You learn by doing, even more, you learn by making mistakes. If thinking outside of the box wasn’t nurtured within you, you may have come to see your process as wrong or bad as a child. 3rd Lines need space to make a lot of mistakes and without that they can lose their confidence. Healing for you is about embracing your process and letting life be messy. When you allow yourself to try new things without worrying about the outcome, your inner child begins to feel safe to explore again.

LINE 4: THE OPPORTUNIST

If you have a 4th Line Profile you are here to learn from and connect with others. Many of your opportunities in life will come from the people closest to you and when you’re in alignment you’ll find that your support system helps you with every aspect of your life. If you were raised in a family that valued hyper independence and being able to make shit happen on your own, you may have been conditioned to operate as a lone wolf when you’re meant to collaborate and co-create with others. Your ability to be open, to let people in, to support and be supported is your super power as a 4th Line. Don’t spend time trying to be like everybody else who’s aspiring to the Independent Woman way of life, you’ll thrive when you focus on community and connection instead. Inner Child healing for you begins with accepting this aspect of yourself and not letting any childhood programming make you feel needy or codependent because of it.

Line 5: The heretic

As a 5th Line you are a natural healer and mirror for others. You show people who they’re being and you allow others to see themselves. The 5th Line brings hope, optimism, and positivity into the world, and at times people may latch onto you, believing you’re the only one that can save them. The struggle that 5th Lines have is that people will place unfair expectations onto you and will blame you when you don’t live up to them. The cost of being put on a moral pedestal is that at times you may feel robbed of your ability to be human and make mistakes. As a child you may have felt confused by all of the expectations and projections that were placed on you and may have learned to hide away from others to avoid disappointing them. Your healing begins when you learn to say no and stop rescuing others. When you begin to focus on what you can deliver and are clear with those around you about who you are (and who you are not) you’ll begin to see just how powerful you are.

Line 6: The Role Model

As a 6th Line you are a natural role model and leader. You are meant to share your wisdom and lived experiences so others can learn through you. This means that the first part of your life will require a period of trial and error, and unlike 3rd Lines who embrace that process, you may judge yourself harshly for the mistakes you’ve made. If you’ve always felt more mature than those around you it’s important that you learn to step back and have fun. In your childhood you may have been parentified or may have naturally taken on a persona of maturity and wisdom, causing adults to forget your true age. If this happened you need to go back and heal your inner child through play, experience, and being a little bit messy. Don’t judge yourself for the messes you make, instead understand that every experience you have is informing the elder and leader you will become in the future. Let loose and live a little.

Of course there’s so much more to healing + working with the inner child and if this is something you’d like support with book a 1:1 session with Gisele.