When the Inner Child Comes Knocking.

Sometimes, it happens that I start getting really interested in a topic that had seemed “obvious” before. That’s what happened recently when the term Inner Child started calling to me.  And so, like I usually do, I ordered a bunch of books about it. 

Of course, most of us have heard of our “inner child.” I feel like I’ve sometimes resisted the term. It almost feels like a regression, meaning childish instead of childlike. 

But something about the term has been pulling at me. It...