Healing the Inner Child with Buddhist Practice. In this guidebook, the renowned and experienced meditation teacher explains how mindfulness and compassion are effective tools for transforming childhood hurts step by step. All people long for appreciation, yet most find it particularly difficult to accept themselves. The reason is often a wounded inner child. In order to protect itself, it has acquired behavioral patterns and perspectives in childhood that continue to function unconsciously in adult life, but are no longer needed. Renate Seifarth has been accompanying people in their personality development for over twenty years. Many case studies from her long experience make clear how liberating it is to venture to the difficult and often repressed parts. Meditation and the practice of Self-M.