How To Heal Your Inner Child?

Tips for getting rid of your emotional baggage.

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In the field of personal development, and self-improvement as well as in popular as well as in psychology analytical psychology, the term inner child has taken on great importance. It refers to an adult individual’s individuals childlike aspect, including what a person learned subconsciously absorbed and learned as a child before puberty.

Among psychologists, the inner child is often conceived as a semi-independent subpersonality subordinate to the waking conscious mind. The term has therapeutic applications in counseling and health setting and became known to a broader audience through the books and educational videos of the human potential guru John Bradshaw.

Psychologist C.G. Jung (1875–1961) is often referenced as the originator of the concept in his divine child archetype. New Thought spiritual leader Emmet Fox (1886–1951) called it the “wonder child”.The concept of the inner child was further developed by husband and wife team Vivian and Arthur Janov in primal therapy, expounded in the books The Primal Scream (1970) and The Feeling Child…