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YOUR INNER CHILD: WHAT IS IT, WHAT'S UP WITH IT AND DOES IT NEED HEALING?

“A hard-nosed neuroscientist might dismiss the idea of an inner child as fanciful. But in other fields the notion is long established”

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Have you noticed the spate of advice articles claiming to help you tap into your ‘inner child’? Some of them suggest this inner infant could be to blame for

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