We continue to consider a personality model based on 3 components: the inner child, the inner parent and the inner adult. It is important not to forget that these parts interact with each other and it makes no sense to consider them outside the context of this interaction. This approach will help us see how it all coexists within us and makes us who we are. So, today we will look at the internal parent part, which is usually associated with the rules and norms that we apply in the process of assessing and interacting with our needs, feelings, emotions, experiences, i.e. with our inner child. The inner parent is formed in the initial period of parent-child relationships. In part, it can be considered as introjected (transferred inside) experience and impressions from interaction with real parents (significant adults). Unconsciously learned norms and rules with the help of which parents built interaction with us in childhood, and which in the future become internal rules for interaction with ourselves. Why do we introject this experience? When we are born, we have minimal experience in interacting both with the world around us and with ourselves; our psyche is only being formed during this period. Therefore, it is important for us to have a significant adult (parent) nearby, interaction with whom, like a mirror, would reflect and show us our new emotional experience and mental content. We observe adults, imitate them, and this process makes our personal experience more understandable to us. Here it is important to understand that a child in childhood imprints not only what the parent does, but also how he does it, how he interacts in the outside world, as well as with the inner world. Therefore, it is so important that live emotional contact is maintained between the child and the parent, so that the child sees how this contact is being built, and not the parents’ or their fantasies about this contact. Based on the quality of experience we have introjected (imprinted) inside ourselves, the inner parent can be attentive, caring, rejecting, manipulating, devaluing, etc. Let's say the figure of our inner parent is devaluing in relation to our feelings and experiences, therefore we will tend to devalue these natural feelings and needs, i.e. certain aspects of our inner child, as a result, they are blocked and are not able to integrate into our life, to adequately manifest themselves in it. In this process, our emotional part becomes like a resentful child who is ignored and forced to satisfy his needs and attract attention to himself in every possible way. This can be self-deception, self-sabotage, depression, various kinds of addictions, etc.. Usually this happens when our inner parent is rigid in its structure, uses only templates, is not attentive to our inner child and does not take him seriously. Any confidential contact with the inner parent and child begins with the recognition of the value of their experiences, expressed in the fact that I have the right to experience certain feelings and they are normal. And here the question arises of how to internally come to an agreement with yourself so that, on the one hand, you do not ignore external reality, and on the other, you do not forget about your natural needs that these experiences express. We often ask this question even when it is very acute and the situation seems hopeless to us. Remember yourself, perhaps you had situations when your mind said one thing, but your feelings were completely opposite, and any attempts to come to an agreement with yourself led to nothing. This is exactly about that situation when our inner child resists and protests, driven by resentment that we have ignored him for so long. You can object by saying that our emotions may be inadequate and if I follow their lead, it will not lead to good. But in