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Old Mar 11, 2009, 07:18 PM
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i still find it incredibly strange that there isn't one inner child but a whole bunch of them.
I would think it not untypical to have a lot of them representing different ages and experiences. Maybe the expression "inner child" led you to think there would be only one? (I have more than one also.)

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and to actually get in touch with one of them and have a dialog with it was even weirder.
I have done this too in session. My T says this is ego state therapy. It's really very cool, when you think about it!

It sounds like you are doing a lot of really valuable work.
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