Modern Family Recap: “Mother Tucker”

In 1963 W. Hugh Missildine’s book Your Inner Child of the Past introduced the notion of the “inner child” to the public consciousness. The term has a number of meanings and associations attached to it, but we tend to think of the inner child as the tiny core of appetite and need within us, the part that cries out for mommy in sickness and refuses to understand limits or accept mortality. Because it lives in an eternal present, the inner child still bears the wounds inflicted on it

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