At 28, Tori Bell felt stuck—both in a career and in a relationship going nowhere. After she shared her feelings with friends, one suggested journalling and meditation. Her workplace offered a weekly ...

People who grew up in difficult environments often have to relearn how to speak to themselves with kindness and honesty.

TikTok is like America Idol for mental health, where once-obscure therapies go for their big break. Such is the case with inner child work. As #innerchild videos skyrocketed to a spectacular 3.2 ...

Q: What is inner child therapy? Walk into my home and you’ll see a framed photo of me as a 2-year-old, a reminder of the precious child within you and me. If you’re my client, it’s a hint that your ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Thinking about myself as a child casts my adult life in a new light.’Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian (Illustration: Rita ...

In relationships, we are expected to solve problems in adult ways. Partners clash over such mature issues as financial priorities, division of chores, parenting disagreements, mismatched expectations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We carry our childhood whispers like secret companions, often too faint to decipher but too persistent to ignore. These echoes of ...

The Inner Child is the part of our subconscious that holds all the feelings we have experienced since the start of our life. It compiles the entire map of our mind and adult triggers. We might have ...

For people who had a particularly difficult upbringing, acknowledging their inner child is an essential step toward healing, self-understanding and personal growth. When we experience pain, rejection, ...

If you spend much time on mental health Instagram or TherapyTok, you might’ve come across talk of how to “reparent” your “inner child.” Maybe you rolled your eyes and kept scrolling. Another ...