Our intention to awaken our child within will usually not be recognised by most people; or worse, may even be actively opposed or undermined by them.

To be awake in a sleeping world is to be seen as eccentric (or worse). The conventional way of putting it is that a ‘prophet is never recognised in his own country’, or a ‘genius is never recognised while they live’. However a more direct way of saying it is ‘the awake person is homeless, nationless, and unknown’. That is not grounds, of course, for resigning ourselves to a victim-position and giving up on the whole matter. But it is important to remember that our intention to awaken our child within will usually not be recognised by most people; or worse, may even be actively opposed or undermined by them. None of that need be a real problem, however, and in fact we can simply use it to sharpen our practice and inner work, something like how a weight-lifter is strengthened by pushing against weights. And therein lays the real point. Being awake to our child within is not contingent on what others think of us, or how they see us—regardless of who they are. To get beyond that fear is one of the most significant barriers to surmount facing one who aspires to 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. #childwithin#10stages