There's a good book by Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull fame), Running from Safety http://www.amazon.com/Running-Safety...dp/0385315287/ that is about his dialog with his inner child that I found comforting/useful. He locked his inner child in a room/prison and when he went to talk to him first, was met with a really angry inner child (because he'd been locked away) with a bazooka pointed at him :-) It's a very fun/loving book.