Thank you for great advice @lymepoet, this especially resonates:

If you want to reconnect with your youthful side, you need to love more and worry less. While you are doing this inner journey focus on this four steps: love yourself, listen to yourself, forgive yourself and thank yourself.

Strange as it may sound, my journey on steemit has partly helped me reconnect with that inner child as I now get to do more of what I always wanted to do and that is to write and be more introspective plus I get to share my love of cooking! I almost feel like I'm travelling as well as I'm meeting so many great people from all over the world here :)