inner child

1. the childlike aspect of a person's psyche, especially when viewed as an independent entity.

   healing your inner child through psychotherapy.

inner child

noun

1. psychol the part of the psyche believed to retain feelings as they were experienced in childhood

Example Sentences

"Are you crying already... because we are! Hello to the inner child in you jumping up and down because #F4 just reunited! Tour soon? We hope!"

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Lenggenhager is currently working on experiments in which participants interact with a child version of themselves to see if this tool could be used in psychotherapy to work with the “inner child.”

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Olson plays these moments of realization with a wide-eyed innocence, allowing DJ’s inner child to temporarily crack the prickly walls she’s built to protect herself from her mother’s constant failure to nurture and support her.

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L.A. will then have its own sort of Willy Wonka, a video game-loving, chocolate-obsessed magnate who never lost his inner child or compulsion for curiosity.

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“She was a role model for me when I was living in Cuba, and I always saw her, and the Calle 13 phenomenon, as something that was so distant. Having the opportunity to collaborate with her was like a gift to my inner child. And a gift to music too, because iLe is music.”

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Related Words

• ego 
• mind 
• soul 
• spirit 
• subconscious