Hooked On Healing

Stop acting like a child. Sheesh. “Act your age!” she yelled. Faced with certain challenges, you can easily revert to a much earlier stage in your development. Reason and logic can go out the window as we feel panic, anger, or even despair. The situations that create the shift from adult to child are actually a guide to your past hurts or trauma.

What stresses you the most? School, work, relationships? You know what they say: You can lead a boy to college, but you can’t make him think. Then again, Einstein said: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

I know y’all have heard about how important it is for your self-care to set boundaries with others. Just where and how do you draw that line? No doubt some days you simply have more to give than others. So remember that what he has to offer you may also vary day to day.

Have you ever met your inner child? Do you even believe you have one? Indeed, you are a full-grown adult, but there is an inner child embedded within you. No part of you ever entirely disappears, actually.

What is your communication style? Do you tend to be coercive, intimidating – even bullying at times? Does your friend or partner use language that makes you fearful or anxious? Some feel that if they are suffering, they need to blame others and then make them suffer as well.

Almost inevitably, somewhere along the journey of your life, you will come across one of the most universal traits: jealousy. You may even have a close friend who seems to want the best for you, but you have observed some disturbing dynamics in the friendship. He did not seem overly pleased when you announced your promotion at work. If I say congratulations, can we go back to focusing on me now? Sheesh. She was not truly joyful when you revealed your engagement.