Allie Beth Stuckey

Okay, so I'm just gonna play that one example.

The other example that we had to play was actually the video that we've already played in the past and you saw the voiceover of that just a few minutes ago, but there are several videos like this and I'm not minimizing the hurt feelings that these people have.

I simply do not think

that talking to ourselves as children is actually the path that we are supposed to take to deal with very real pain.

So I want to talk about what the inner child concept is and how it originated.

That tells us a lot about what it means and if Christians should be toying with it.

It's not just a social media fad.

This psychological term inner child actually has roots in the new age movement and quite frankly has parts of it that

A Christian really just shouldn't tolerate and shouldn't play with.

So let's go back to its beginnings.

Sigmund Freud, a lot of you know who he is.

He was an Austrian physician.

He was often called the father of modern psychology.

He argued that early childhood experiences form unconscious patterns in our thinking.

and he popularized the idea that repressed childhood trauma is what drives much of our adult behavior.

So already you can see that some of that could be considered true and other parts of it, you're like, well, is that true?

Does it really drive all of our unconscious patterns of thinking or even most of our unconscious patterns of thinking?

Does it really contribute majorly to who we are and what we do as adults?

I think all of us just using our own common sense, whether you're a psychiatrist, psychologist or not,

can say, yeah, of course, things that have happened to us may affect how we think and how we think may affect how we talk and the things that we do.