Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts with the label Where is the Inner Child?

Who is Your Inner Child?

In case you might be new to the concept of the Inner Child I thought you might benefit from a brief introduction based on the classic news formula of who/what/when/where/why. "Who" is the Inner Child Your Inner Child is who you were as a child, even though now you are an adult. It represents one half of the ongoing "inner conversations" happening between your Inner Parent and your Inner Child. Your Inner Child is uniquely you, more private and personal than any other aspect of your being. Your Inner Child is not "the ego" as typically described by psychology. This title would go to the Inner Parent who, like an outer parent to the best of its ability, is in charge of taking care of and guiding your Inner Child through this crazy experience called your life. Your Inner Parent has the leadership position for the two voices and is the self that deals primarily with your life's day-to-day outer tasks and activities. Like an outer p...