Trusting our child withins negative feelings as a guide to our recovery

Trust our child withins negative feelings. Don’t blame him for our rage, our sadness, our frustration, our testiness. We often fail to consider the healthiness of our child withins negative feelings, especially negative feelings toward ourselves, and instead we either rationalise them as a normal part of our childhood, and therefore something to be ignored, or pathologise them as something mentally ill, and therefore something to be quelled. It is easy for us, with the power of authority invested in our adult status, to neutralise our child’s anger within. But this doesn’t make us feel right, and instead cruelly violates our child’s truth within us. If our child is angry at us, chances are it’s for an excellent reason! Study yourself. Look within. If you look hard enough you will find the answer in the guidance within the Stages.