Healing your relationship with your inner child is one of the most profound journeys you can take. Your inner child holds the key to understanding past wounds, unmet needs, and unprocessed emotions.

The 25-year-old Delhi-based advocate felt lost for a long while, easily trusting people only to be hurt by them. “Despite trying therapy, I made the same mistakes, finding it difficult to judge if ...

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Do you have recurrent dysfunctional patterns in your relationships? Maybe you get triggered easily and have intense emotional reactions in response to your friends, coworkers, or romantic partners. Or ...

The “inner child” is not a metaphor for immaturity or regression. It is the part of the psyche that contains the emotional memory of childhood, including unmet needs, fears, and coping mechanisms ...