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The Childhood mind is peculiarly vulnerable to trauma, especially when young – a blind-fear is induced which turns thought off.


The Childhood mind is peculiarly vulnerable to trauma, especially when young – a blind-fear is induced which turns thought off. Thought ceases. The mind is ‘ill’. It pays the child within not to know what is happening, or who is doing what, to him or her. This is variously described as ‘denial’, dissociation, projection, repression .The upshot is that the child within daren’t look, so cannot see.. The child works on the perception that “full thought or visualisation of this event is TERMINAL”. And once the child within stops seeing, and this can happen quite suddenly especially pre-verbally, then they are thereafter incapable of telling whether or not the trauma has stopped. “This isn’t happening to me” leads inexorably to the inability to say or think or believe that “this has stopped happening to me” – or even very clearly what “this” is.

It is a painful thing to wake up the child within — and to start to understand our need for the child's recovery. It breaks rules. It angers the norm. It hurts to shed the mask of adult comfort and walk once more into the despair of childhood. It hurts to reject the fantasy of one day being loved by those who never really loved you . It hurts to leave the family system behind. It hurts to stand on your own.




Yet this process of waking up, and this alone, is the pathway back to life — to a long, healthy inner life. This is the cure for child within.

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