Kamal Ghorui
There are moments when your reaction doesn’t match the situation.
A delayed reply feels heavier than it should. A small comment stays in your head for hours. You find yourself overexplaining, overthinking, or quietly pulling away – even when nothing “serious” has happened.
It’s easy to brush this off as overreacting. But often, it’s not about the moment at all. It’s about something older – patterns you picked up when you were still figuring out how to feel safe, heard, or understood.
That’s where the idea of the inner child comes in. Not as a trend, but as a way to understand why certain emotions feel so familiar, even now.
And sometimes, the shift doesn’t come from big changes. It comes from the way you start talking to yourself in those moments.
