My ex-therapist and I spoken about the inner child, but didn't do any homework on it. She told me I needed to "parent myself" but how do you tap into the inner child? What I've been trying to do is speak to the inner voice about what we are going to do and how to do it, then I feel surges of bitterness towards my parents when trying to avhieve something then lose track at what I am doing.

I know you are suppose to work on this with a mental health professional, but I refuse to go back to even speak to any MHPs! 3 is a charm for me, speaking to them they made me feel even worse. I saw a couple mentions of authors on inner child and is it possible to do it yourself? Anyone ever had success doing it? I have been feeling for a long time this urging feeling of "another person" inside but never believed in the inner child. My behavior explains why I do what I do because of the lack of nurturing I never got from my parents and did all sorts of crap long ago to get that nurturing.