When Your Inner Child Is Nowhere to Be Found

Kitty J
4 min readApr 1, 2021

Is reconnection even possible after decades of unresolved trauma?

Photo by Marissa&Eric on Unsplash

There I am sitting on the couch in my therapist’s office bawling my eyes out. I don’t often let her see how much pain I’m in, mostly because my day is ruined once I give in to my inner despair.

This past Tuesday was the worst in a while, because last week, I was bitten on the leg by a dog while…

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Kitty J

Autistic. Parent. Writer. Accountant. Abuse Survivor. Dealing w/cPTSD, hEDS & POTS. Always learning & questioning. A quiet human slowly reparenting herself.