The Inner Child & the Outer Grown-up


Friday, 25 May 2012 09:17


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‘The psychological wounds we all suffered in childhood and our formative years form part of our inner shadow. In recent times those psychologies came to be known as the inner child . We were all abandoned and scared and often hurt by our caregivers.

It’s the task of the authentic grown-up to go back inside those wounds to discover himself or herself. For, if the inner child is not understood and handled properly it can become the inner brat that destroys you in the end.

It creates such a storm of anger and unreasonableness that others start to shun you, and they become uncooperative, and eventually life falters all around you. You burn out those that love you and those that would support you. I am a great believer in inner child therapy and I attended a therapist diligently for about nine months on and off, some years ago. She was very kind. She showed me how my parents, having survived terrible experiences during the Second World War, passed that unresolved terror into me.’

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