u/EthelAndFred2

I would really appreciate professional input. I recently started doing something like parts work with my therapist unintentionally. We were getting into some deep conversations about some childhood trauma and I had the experience of feeling like the younger me was just below the surface. It had developed into feeling like it's almost a literal second personality living inside me. I don't mean I experience DID, I'm not losing time or feeling like this other person takes over my body. But I can sense her in a strange way and have the urge to talk to her and I feel her emotion. Is this normal for parts work? Is this a good thing? My therapist seems to think this is very good but part of me finds it scary.

I started doing parts work with my therapist without really meaning to. Some deep conversations about childhood trauma led to me getting a sense of a teenage part of my self that feels very distinctly like a separate person. I'm afraid it makes me sound a little wacky to say that and I guess I'm just wondering if anyone else has had this kind of experience getting in touch with an inner child or separate child part of yourself and what that was like for you.