The inner child

I’ve been having some counselling recently to help me understand my mood swings (and therefore hopefully help reduce them, which seems to be working so far). My counsellor talks a lot about “the inner child”. Apparently my inner child hasn’t been nurtured enough which has resulted in me reacting to situations in a child-like way (being stroppy without really knowing why). Flippancy aside though, a lot of her ideas make sense. I’ve spent more time recently analysing why I react to certain things and trying to take a step back when I start to feel stroppy which has really helped.