When a person gets a childhood incident triggered up and all the fear and other feelings emerge, this person is experiencing the child part.

Preferably, when we are going through life, we should have the opportunity to work through our feelings and any incidents that happen to us. This processing would allow us to stay integrated and whole. Well, of course this didn't happen to all of us here. Things happened to us and we didn't get the opportunity to process it so we kept all the feelings inside and we didn't get the chance to understand it either. When this happens our emotional development gets split off. The child cannot continue to develop emotionally on a continuum. It's like there is a block so you jump around it and start over again. When you go through therapy and talk about each of these incidents that are blocked and you release the feelings you remove the blockage and this part can join the whole.

I had a child part who wasn't emotionally developed and then I had the adult me who did the adult things in life. As I healed this inner child emotionally matured so now I am probably almost at my real age emotionally. (Through most of my days but sometimes I still get triggered and a small area that needs more maturing peaks out).