Interesting. Sometimes when I am in therapy I can "hear" certain answers but I rarely say them unless they are something I am comfortable with. Often though the answers and feelings of my inner child are not available to me during my session, they surface after my sessions. My response to my inner child has change dramatically over the past 1-11/2 years. Before I would hear her, immedately change the channel, and there was no way in heck I would have told me T what she was saying. Now, I tend to listen and explore what she is saying via drawing or journaling, and eventually present things in therapy. We've both acknowledged that I have at least one inner child and my T will sometimes refer to her as "that child" when explaining something. My T has never attempted to communicate directly with one of my ego states, at least verbally during the session. I think we each have our own ways of dealing with these fragments. Mine has been very slow, but maybe that is the way I need it to be.

Sorry, I am alway very interested in the ego states/inner child discussions.