Her Campus: How Inner Child Work Can Help Your Mental Health

“Have you ever noticed how much joy adult coloring books, playing dress-up, or just going to the park can bring you? If you have,  you may have connected with your “inner-child” without realizing it. 

You might be asking yourself, What is an Inner Child? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an inner child as “the childlike, usually hidden part of a person’s personality characterized by playfulness, spontaneity, and creativity.” In other words, your inner child is the part of you that yearns to connect with your childhood. Exploring your inner child is not only fun, but it’s also therapeutic. 

Her Campus spoke to licensed marriage and family therapist, Allison Gomez, MS, to learn exactly what “inner child work” is, and how it can be a therapeutic practice for Gen Z to heal and evolve.”