Healing Your Inner Child in One Minute With God by Brandon Hayes

You picked up this book because the child you once were still lives inside your adult life, trying to keep you safe the only way she learned how. You notice it when a small comment leaves you oddly hurt, when you apologize too quickly, when anxiety rises even though your life looks fine, or when you long to be comforted and do not know how to ask. You may have tried to keep busy, stay positive or focus on others to avoid lingering with your own needs, but those strategies rarely reach the younger places that still wait for comfort. Whatever brought you here, you share one belief with every woman who opens this book. The need to be seen, soothed and securely held can be met, 60 seconds at a time, with God.
This book is not an hour long devotion you will abandon and it is not a clinical model that asks you to excavate every memory at once. It is not a call to stay little and it is not a lecture about trying harder. What you need is honest language, a clear understanding of how God parents the tender places, and simple tools you can use while waiting in line, at your desk or awake at 2 in the morning. The pages that follow offer 15 chapters that teach one essential theme and end with a one minute practice you can try right away, whether you have a trauma history or simply missed ordinary delight.
Inside, you'll discover:
• How to meet your inner child with compassion instead of criticism
• Why brief, repeated minutes rewire stress responses more than intensity
• Breath prayers and sacred pauses that calm the nervous system with God
• How to replace old scripts with specific truth from Scripture
• Forgiveness that frees without pretending harm did not matter
• Boundaries that let you love others without abandoning yourself
• Daily rhythm that restores play, tenderness and stable hope
You will learn that 60 seconds is not too small for God to use.