Ashley Judd 'restaged' her 12th birthday party. Here's how

Ashley Judd is celebrating her younger self.

The "High Crimes" star shared a recap of how she spent her 58th birthday, noting in a May 12 Instagram post that her "inner 12-year-old was ready to receive love, care, attunement, delight, protection, and provision."

"This past weekend, alongside sensitive, playful people who also relish carefree timelessness, we restaged my 12th birthday party," Judd wrote. "We backfilled what was always missing and no longer is, thanks to vulnerable imagination."

The concept of celebrating her inner child isn't new to Judd, who threw her 9-year-old self a "field day birthday party" last April.

This year, Judd and her guests "laughed, frolicked, square danced, took a Scopes Monkey Trial True or False quiz (including quite a bit Mrs. Minor did not cover in 1979), and ate a dream cake any 12-year-old would adore."

"We also anonymously wrote down 6th grade shames, placing them in a safe jar where others could read them with empathy (and maybe even a little 12-year-old problem solving).. Shame reduction! Who knew others were also awkward and scared at times," Judd's post concluded.

Ashley Judd 'doesn't remember' any of her birthdays

While Judd may not remember any of her birthdays "growing up," including her 12th, she does recall "loving" specific moments from that time, notably what she learned in "Mrs. Minor’s 6th grade class at Grassland Elementary in 1979."

"Science, geology, dinosaurs with their hilarious tiny arms and giant mouths eating leaves from treetops, learning the difference between stalactites and stalagmites, and discovering a cute trick for remembering the difference between convex and concave" were among the topics the Emmy-nominated actress enjoyed learning about the most, according to her post.

"I also loved the 6 weeks(!) of square dancing in PE! Didn’t you want to come home and wiggle, squirm, and show off your jig? I did," she added.

But what Judd didn't have at home was a "parent (or adult) supporting, nurturing, guiding and reinforcing my learning, delighting in, or protecting that little girl."

What is 'restaging'?

Restage, as defined by Merriam-Webster, is to "stage (something) again." Judd's definition, albeit similar, refers to the act of recreating a childhood memory or moment in time from "your adult perspective."

"Have you ever considered, from your adult perspective, restaging for your sweet inner child an experience she either never had at all?" Judd wrote. "Or an experience that did not unfold with the safety and attention it should have?"

Judd says she "deeply enjoy(s)" the practice, noting that "many of us grew up with unmet needs." Judd herself, says she does it "from a loving inner-parent perspective for my inner family."

"Today, as adults, we can listen carefully to those missings, identify what happened that should not have happened — and, crucially, what did not happen that should have happened —supplying that, now, with love and humor to ourselves," she wrote.