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The inner child work in psychotherapy

Childhood is not just a phase of life.
It is a psychic territory, a symbolic landscape where every footprint remains.

No matter how much time passes,
we continue to walk across this invisible ground.
We repeat patterns.
We revisit old fears.
We try to rebuild new experiences from what was lived, or left unlived.

Freud once said:

“Childhood doesn’t disappear within us. It hides.”
The unconscious stores its most profound memories,
and they resurface in unexpected places
in dreams, in desires, in the quiet logic behind our random choices.

How often do we face adult situations
with reactions shaped by the child we once were?

The sudden anger.
The fear of making mistakes.
The deep need for approval.
All echoes.

The child within still walks beside us, waiting to be seen.
It shows up in our relationships.
In the ways we protect ourselves.
In patterns of self-sabotage.
It speaks through the inner voice that drives us, or punishes us.

We return to the land of childhood every single day.
It is the ground beneath our psychic home.
And like any home, it needs care.
It needs repair and reconciliation.

Psychotherapy invites us to return to this inner landscape
not to remain trapped in it,
But to understand it.

To reframe what hurt.
To reclaim what is ours.
To move forward,
without carrying what no longer belongs to us.