Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Thinking about myself as a child casts my adult life in a new light.’Illustration: Rita Liu/The Guardian (Illustration: Rita ...

For many children, books weren’t an escape from real life so much as the first place their inner world felt vivid, valid, and worth paying attention to.What stayed with them wasn’t just a love of ...

Traditional holidays typically elicit memories of our childhoods. For some people, these are joyous moments, and for others, they might elicit turbulent ones. Although for some, the inner child might ...

Prefixing the word “adaptive” before “child” is relatively new in therapy literature. And contrary to the word’s usual positive connotations, in this context, it’s much more ambiguous. Undeniably, all ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We carry our childhood whispers like secret companions, often too faint to decipher but too persistent to ignore. These echoes of ...

Have you ever struggled to set boundaries with a partner? Or needed reassurance on first dates? Thought leaders in psychology and personal development are now, after some inspection, attributing these ...

Inner Child is Health and Me's new mental health series where we deep dive into lesser-known aspects of child psychology and how it shapes you as you grow up. Often unheard, mistaken, and ...