The only benefit I've ever seen is to recognize that the child side of me was working from a place of trauma and without the ability to see the events through the benefit of adult reason. Those perceptions and beliefs that came to me as that child were not particularly rational; they are where I went to "survive" what was happening, but I don't need to keep viewing those events as a child now. I'm not a child anymore. I have the ability to see things with more experienced, rational, reasoned eyes so that I can get unstuck from that child perspective. That child was frightened, hurt physically and emotionally, confused, self-blaming, ashamed, etc. I don't have to keep seeing things as the child did anymore.