“Reframing those memories has helped me let go of so many negative associations from my childhood”
I was intrigued by Sarah Chana Radcliffe’s piece about making sure our children feel the love we have for them.
In my twenties, I went to a therapist to work through some issues that had come up. We did a lot of inner-child work that was incredibly healing.
One of the most powerful aspects of the therapist’s approach was looking at painful childhood memories from the other person’s point of view.
If my mother didn’t want to buy me a certain thing that I wanted, it’s not because she thought I wasn’t worthy of it — it’s because it wasn’t practical/wasn’t in the budget/might have attracted bullying from my peers.
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