We are unwittingly being constantly influenced or covertly controlled by this semi-conscious child within.

We are unwittingly being constantly influenced or covertly controlled by this our semi-conscious child within. For us, it is not an adult self directing our lives, but rather an emotionally wounded child within inhabiting an adult body. A five-year-old running around in a forty-year-old frame. It is a hurt, angry, fearful little boy or girl calling the shots, making adult decisions. A boy or girl being sent out into the world to do a man's or woman's job. A five or ten-year old (or two of them!) trying to engage in grown-up relationships. Can a child have a mature relationship? A career? An independent life? Yet this is precisely what's happening with us all day every day to some degree or another. And then we wonder why our relationships fall apart. Why we feel so anxious. Afraid. Insecure. Inferior. Small. Lost. Lonely. But think about it: 

How else would any child within feel having to fend for themselves in an apparently adult world? Without proper parental supervision, protection, structure or support? The Ten Stages is the only structured method of studied recovery for our child within. It has learned the language of the child within and understands that re-traumatising does not work.