Inner child process

have a hard time verbalizing my thoughts about this process but I’ll try and hopefully someone will understand where I am going with this.

I am in Somatic experiencing therapy and some other modalities are intertwined into my therapy. I’ve only recently been able to acknowledge the fact that I have an inner child and been able to connect with her and feel her feelings in a safe way with my therapist. For years she was hidden deep inside of me and for those years I was really functional. For two years now I’ve been non functional in many ways, I need someone with me when I drive (have some trauma regarding driving) and I’ve been able to connect the dots between driving and my childhood trauma.

Generelly I feel more connected to my inner child but also more blended with her. Blended in a way that makes me more scared, vulnerable and nonfunctional as an adult. My question is: is this part of the process? From not acknowledging to being blended to sometime in the future beeing with without being blended?