From Darth Vader to Anakin: The Inner Child’s Journey to Redemption

It all starts when we face our own soul — just like Luke had to face Darth Vader in the cave in the original Star Wars.

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What is an inner child? Is he or she a real thing? Obviously, it isn’t a real child inside you. It’s a metaphor for something that we all know.

Carl Jung believed that the child is one of the basic archetypes in the collective unconscious. We all know what it is to be a child, even as adults. This archetype aligns closely with the way huma…