Treehouse it is nice that you were able to just be for a while and were open to his safe, string-free comforting. I think I would like to be able to accept care like that, both by myself and by others.

It is nice that you were able to do this safely. It is also cool that you were able to sense your inner child, while still feeling your adult. I think I co-exist with my ego states. I just don't sense them as complete enities unless I am by myself and focus on a feeling or a thought running through my head and ask... "Where is that throught coming from?" Then the girl or the teen or some other aspect kind of takes form. Unfortunately, I haven't been really good at just Being and being aware of this when I am stress or attempting communicate what I'm thinking or wanting when in a live interaction. Instead of just relaxing and letting my thoughts flow freely between them, I tend to just react, hide them, and get defensive and fearful that I might say something or do something that is childish or inappropriate. (My T would respond to that last comment with,"And when was the last time you actually responded to something inappropriately?....It been a long time but I still worry about that.)