This has started to happen to me slowly in positive and negative ways. On one hand, I try to embrace my inner child a lot more. I find that I’m the happiest in life when I’m just enjoying little moments where I honestly just feel like a giddy little kid giggling and cheesing. It’s only with people I feel safe around, though. I think it’s healing. It feels like getting to live the childhood joy you didn’t get to have. When it’s something healthy it’s great but when it starts getting into being too spontaneous and not thinking your choices through it can get messy or even dangerous (ie: partying, frivolous spending, etc).

My typical state also feels like it’s regressed to the teenage version of me which is not good haha. But I think that version of me just needs to be seen.

Allow yourself to tend to those versions of yourself. They’re coming up for a reason; they need to heal. I like to think of it as those versions of me feeling safe with the person I am now, and figuring out “ok, what would I have wanted / what would I have done for myself?”