Your Inner Child

So I am reading this book right now "The Emotionally Abused Woman" http://amzn.to/1OP2OqN in between classes and I wanted to try one of the Cognitive therapy exercises. It requires the client to find their inner child at different ages throughout life, once as a toddler and then once as an older child.

The client has to try to make contact with the inner child and see how the child responds. Does the inner child like you? I thought this was not possible when I first read it. But then I tried the exercise.

I found my inner child as a toddler, the toddler child was curious but she didn't dislike me. She was okay with me. But when I found the inner child as a young adolescent the inner child did not like me at all.

She hated me and was scared of me, she thought I was a fake because she doesn't believe in Jesus or God. She cannot stand anything to do with discipline or good behavior. She is a wild child to the extreme.

So, I didn't know how I could make contact with her since she hates me. Then I recalled that inner child loves strawberry perfume and sterling silver bracelets. So I decided to give her some strawberry parfum http://amzn.to/1sACPyB and a sterling silver bracelet. I wonder what else this inner child will have me doing? LOL