Any of you have a fear of inner child(ren) work? My t set me homework to read a book. It's "Healing Your Aloneness".

It's the first book I've read which normalises that you may dislike/reject/hate your inner child and they might not show up or engage with you becausethey don't trust you etc... which was a relief because I thought I was the only one.

But the book says to talk with your inner child(ren) twice a day every day and I keep getting flooded with fear that this will make my inner child more autonomous, more "real" etc when I rather they don't exist. Even though I know you can't develop osdd/did in adulthood.

I did read a blog saying dissociated parts are on a wide spectrum and it's normal in CPTSD (which I have plus dissociative amnesia) for my inner child to Not Feel Like Me but not have their own sense of self and autonomy, but... won't talking to inner child(ren) make them more separate?