However, it’s never too late to work toward healing. Everyone has an inner child. You might see this inner child as a direct representation of yourself in your early years, a patchwork ...

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 ...

Before I learned to accept the pain from my childhood, I kept acting in ways that I had no control over. But once I realized that there was an inner child whose pain I needed to accept, I stopped ...

If you spend much time on mental health Instagram or TherapyTok, you might’ve come across talk of how to “reparent” your “inner child.” Maybe you rolled your eyes and kept scrolling.

The Inner Child Workshop involves the rekindling of the inner child through activities like Rainbow Looms and Play-Doh, along with food and discussions that invite a sense of the past into the present ...

That’s not just moodiness or stress—it might be your wounded inner child quietly asking to be seen. Most of us carry versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown but never truly healed. And no ...

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