By Susan M. Anderson, LCSW
www.outerchild.net
What is the Outer Child?
Outer Child, is the self-sabotaging nemesis of your personality – the part that breaks your diet and gets attracted to all the wrong people. Whereas your Inner child is all about feelings, Outer Child is all about behaviors – self-defeating patterns. Outer Child acts out your inner child’s feelings – especially your abandonment feelings – without giving you, the adult, a chance to intervene. When you feel hurt, angry, or insecure, Outer acts out these feelings in ways that sabotage your relationships. Stealthy and quick, Outer intercepts love before you even know what happened.