Does anyone else find that once you start to give your inner child a voice, she keeps getting louder and louder? Do you just let it happen?
I think it started when I bought the stuffed animal, crayons, coloring book and Blow-Pops several months ago - I felt the need to get more in touch with that little one inside me, especially since T said it was my adult self who was speaking in session but my child self who held a lot of my emotions that I was suppressing. So for a weekend, I colored, sucked on my Blow-Pops, and watched Muppet movies - it felt nice, but it didn't really do the trick. Cut to me making the collage, and whammo!

- there's Little Dreamer! Then, we got the first hug from T - it felt so nice and safe, definitely encouraged the little ones to come out more. And then Little Dreamer, age 9, started writing letters to T. After a flashback, a much younger little one wrote a letter to T. In the last session, I tried lying on the couch, and that also brought out my inner child more for some reason. And then Little Dreamer pouted at the end of the session because T forgot the hug that I'd asked for earlier, and she asked T, "Aren't you going to hug me?" T laughed and said of course and hugged LD9.

And then this morning, as I was journaling my usual morning pages, I felt LD9 again really coming up strong - I even tried to fight it, but then I just gave in - soon, I had a page and a half written to T from LD9, and tears streaming down my cheeks. And now I feel so jumpy, it's really crazy! I'm definitely going to take this latest letter in to T on Monday, but I just can't get over how strong the little ones in me feel. I can't get over that there's more than one child self in there! It's all so very odd to me, yet it makes sense at the same time.
So what do you do when you feel like that inner child is just screaming for attention and wanting so badly to be heard? She can't be heard all the time! But is it good to let her be more present in therapy right now, if that's how I'm feeling? Even as I type that, I feel her in me, shouting, "Yes! Yes!"

She can be exhausting sometimes!

I guess I'm a bit scared becuse it feels more vulnerable to let Little Dreamer be out so much, and things keep coming up when LD9 writes letters that are unexpected for me, but they're touching on some deep emotions. So I think I just answered my own question... maybe.