Let me say that i have been doing inner child work and those around me have as well. I went through a recent emotional trauma that was really a trigger from my childhood experience. I knew that my emotion was way out of proportion to the event that triggered it, so I had to explore and get to the bottom of this inner conflict.

I had been feeling that a close friend was, on the surface, communicating in a friendly open way and the undercurrent that my inner child picked up was…