I don't use inner child in my own self work but understand the concept and value for many. If I had to choose something that I did not really receive in my childhood from parents and others, and that caused me difficult to change issues into my adult life, it would be discipline and being taught how to follow through on tasks consistently. I had good parents in terms of giving me love and attention (sometimes too much), and also a lot of freedom, which I really appreciated, but there was almost no discipline and teaching me values that would guide the discipline from within. I had to explore and learn all that on my own. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I did struggle some due to not having been exposed to a good template of these things early in life.