I would encourage you to ask what inside of you—the emotional pain you could not metabolize or integrate back then—is asking for your love and attention now?

Although that could never happen ...

As a result, I developed a mindset where everything was up to me and, at the very same time, felt like a fraud, insecure about my abilities.

but I did feel like a child in a doctor costume.

I was shown the more I try to make sense of things, the more man-made and ultimately wrong it could be.

“There’s nothing to hold on to.”

Where awareness goes, energy flows.

In other words, there was a compulsion to attach thinking to the painful feeling.

growth and our freedom.”