44: Caring For the Child Within

The Joyful Mom Podcast · May 14, 2020 · 23m

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We all come to grief with our own stories and experiences. As children, we may have had experiences that were painful and intense. These experiences may have taught us, that we need to put up a front, that in order to be cared for we need to be helpless, that in order to receive love we need to be complicit, that is order to not get hurt, we have to criticize others.

The little child within has reasons for doing that. It’s the way we can protect ourselves. This way of blocking painful or difficult emotions is the way as a child you felt you needed to protect yourself…