At the stages we begin to think about it, how much time do we spend avoiding our childhood pain?

At the stages we begin to think about it, how much time do we spend avoiding our childhood pain? We do it through dissociation distracting ourselves with alcohol, food, sex, drugs, shopping and all kinds of other things.

We get busy working, instead of getting busy feeling. And instead of living our purpose and facing the uncertainty that comes with that, we stay in our learned dissociative comfort zone.

And many times, not feeling this pain, not taking risks, not living our purpose, we begin to feel anxious, we begin to feel tired, we begin to feel run down and we begin to feel bored.

It’s possible that instead of living our purpose, we’ve turned to pills to calm us down. Instead of experiencing the drama of facing the uncertainty of doing what we love, we create drama in our lives – just to keep it dissociate.

We can literally spend a whole lifetime not feeling the feelings or sadness, anger, powerlessness, etc. – that if we just faced, if we just felt – would set our child within free.

We haven’t learned yet that feeling our  child withins feelings – when fully expressed – leads to our freedom.

Time and time again, when we take stagers through the process of healing and feeling the feelings that are terrifying their child within – afterwards, they feel lighter, they feel clearer and they have a sense of peace about themselves.

We all have pain. And there’s no amount of chanting, yoga or green juice that can take away that pain – it must be felt. Not dwelled on for a lifetime, but felt for the appropriate amount of time. It is scary, but on the other side is recovery.

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives.