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View synonyms for inner child

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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

It’s interesting to see a man who is put on a pedestal by the world being taken down to his inner child by the person who knows him the most.

Today, the 48-year-old has fully embraced his inner child.

I see it as a human exercise that speaks to the inner child.

A lot of people like me have been returning to their beloved childhood activities as a way to reconnect with their inner child — and perhaps to cope with the fact that adulthood looks nothing like what we had imagined.

“As an adult who has an inner child, I’m giving her the structure that she might’ve needed.”

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