Distancing Strategy: Love Your "Inner Cave Person"

We know about our "inner child" - but what about our inner cave person "early modern human?" Many of our emotional responses connect back to this "original wiring."

The psychologist Carl Jung, born in 1875, coined the term "inner child." Inner child has several very different definitions. Here's my take:

Your inner child is your child-like self, from when you were very young, and who you still are underneath the adulting and lifetime of experiences.

We've learned in the decades since to be kind to our inner-kid, to understand that we might make mistakes or struggle because there's a part of us that's still young and vulnerable (even when the birthday candles say otherwise).

Cave-Person Wiring

I'd like to suggest space for another Inner You. Bear with me here, I'm not getting woo-woo or anything, this is straight-up science.