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How To Look After Your Inner Child After Trauma
Everyone has an inner child. This is a fact. There is no way around this. We all have things that make us laugh, even though they shouldn’t. We have toys that we know, logically are toys and that we should be too grown up for them now, and yet, for some reason, they bring us comfort.
These are all signs that we have an inner child.
NOT OFTEN TALKED ABOUT
The thing is, we don’t generally talk about it. The average, mentally healthy adult has a well adjusted inner child, whose behaviours are reserved for when the adult “you” chooses to let them out.
This is not the case for a lot of people.
Though having an inner child is not something that is strictly reserved for those with mental health issues, that inner child becomes more obvious in those people.
THE IMPACT OF MENTAL HEALTH ON THE INNER CHILD
The irony is that the inner child is generally always there, and will come out in different ways. For people with mental health issues. and people who have had, in particular, trauma, that inner child is not the same, sort of innocent, wacky, unblemished being as someone who has not had trauma might have.
