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Healing your inner child isn’t about rewriting the past—it’s about making peace with it. It’s about allowing yourself to be the person you needed when you were younger, treating yourself with the ...

Copy a child If you have a child in your life, what better way to reconnect with your inner child than by shadowing their ...

Have you ever struggled to set boundaries with a partner? Or needed reassurance on first dates? Thought leaders in psychology and personal development are now, after some inspection, attributing these ...

Prefixing the word “adaptive” before “child” is relatively new in therapy literature. And contrary to the word’s usual positive connotations, in this context, it’s much more ambiguous. Undeniably, all ...

For people who had a particularly difficult upbringing, acknowledging their inner child is an essential step toward healing, self-understanding and personal growth. When we experience pain, rejection, ...

Destructive behavior takes various forms: from subtle self-sabotage and self-defeating patterns to passive hostility to severe self-destructive symptoms, violent aggression, and, sometimes, evil deeds ...

Sometimes, it feels like your adult self is not the only one making decisions. There's a younger version of you, your inner child, that often sneaks into your grown-up brain and takes over the ...