Do you have an inner child?

[Unveiled Artist]

I was looking this up a bit for the past couple weeks when talking to my therapist. Very interesting info. How to Do Inner-Child Work for Healing Trauma and Self-Acceptance - Rising Woman By connecting with our inner-child, we gain access to new information about our unhealed wounds, and the needs that may not have been met when we were actually children.

Do you have an inner child?

Other information you may be interested in.
8 Tips for Healing Your Inner Child

Enjoy.

 

[sun rise]

I certainly have an inner child - among other things, I love toys - electronic, high-tech toys but toys none-the-less.

Also, Eric Berne's psychological theory postulated that we all have an inner parent, child and adult. Transactional analysis - Wikipedia

 

[JustGeorge]

Not really. I tried that idea for a long time, but I realized I am that child. I still have the same needs, for the most part.

I still need things to do. Things to think about, and things with which to entertain myself. A good book to read. A purpose. A gold star when I do a good job. To feel relevant.

I don't always get those needs met now, and I didn't then. I'm okay with it now, and I recognize its part of the cycles of life. The me then, and the me now are essentially the same. Trappings have changed. The things that interest me have cycled. Personality strengths and weaknesses have ebbed and flowed. Life lessons have been learned, but what is in me now was always in me.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I don't think I do, but I didn't get to have much of a childhood.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Absolutely. I touch the heart of that child whenever I get to sketch dragons and dinosaurs or be really messy with paints or play a fun video game, or play some tabletop rpgs, or just meditate on the contrast between childhood expectations of adulthood, and finding what will feeds that childhood joy productively.

I don't always see eye to eye with Mr C.S. Lewis, but I definitely resonate with this one:
'When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.'

 

[Aupmanyav]

Yeah, I have. And he is such help, such fun.
Explaining like Sun rise said, its penchant is to open up any machine and then not be able to assemble it back. But he is just a child, what can you say to him? My wife knows and stops him any time he is with his pranks.

 

[Hellbound Serpiente]

I still am a child?

Well ... to some extent.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I certainly have an inner child - among other things, I love toys - electronic, high-tech toys but toys none-the-less.

Also, Eric Berne's psychological theory postulated that we all have an inner parent, child and adult. Transactional analysis - Wikipedia

Wow. It's hard to shift through Wiki, but here's something else I found Understanding the Parent Adult Child Model | The Hope Street Centre

 

[Goddess Kit]

Sometimes I let her out to play with the humans.

 

[Unveiled Artist]

I don't think I do, but I didn't get to have much of a childhood.

Neither have I had much of a childhood for a good chunk of my teen life. It's said that the "child" in us that did not (or did) experience the childhood is hurt in some way. When we are adults, we shove that inner child in a hole (to put in stronger words), and child work-when one is ready or needs to-attempts to find that "hurt" child, and bring back and cure what he or she has not experienced or has been distorted from their child upbringing et cetera. It's meant to help people see things in light of their own identity rather than replay or relive the hurtful things they've experienced as normal in their past.