When you grow up with a mental illness, experience childhood trauma, or have your childhood disrupted in some way (such as by adverse childhood experiences), it can feel a little like you never really had a childhood.
If so, it may be the case that your inner child is hurting and affecting how you’re able to embrace the present. I’ve done some inner child work in therapy.
I discovered he feels lonely, sad, unloved… all the leftovers from my childhood. So, one of the ways to begin to heal these wounds between therapy sessions is by reconnecting with him in some way.
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