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Your inner child holds the key to understanding past wounds, unmet needs, and unprocessed emotions. By nurturing this part of yourself, you can reconnect with lost joy, creativity, and authenticity.

For some people, these difficult situations have caused our inner child to carry unhealed wounds that stick around into adulthood. This can go relatively unnoticed until we have kids, as becoming ...

A parent not being emotionally available might leave a wound on your inner child, said Dr. Brian Razzino, a licensed clinical psychologist in Falls Church, Virginia.

Inner child work is based on the idea that your past influences your present, so your triggers can impact how you navigate several areas of life, including work, relationships, and physical health.

Because of that, the old beliefs and wounds of our inner children can drive a lot of our unconscious patterns in the present day in ways we don’t realize, Dr. O’Shea Brown explains.

We don’t create our partner’s inner-child wounds, and nor do they create ours—and even so, loving others deeply calls us to tend to their inner world as they are likewise called to tend ours.

They may face challenges in parenting, unresolved inner child wounds, codependency, or a pattern of people-pleasing. They desire healthier relationships, improved communication, and stronger ...

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