Sometimes I think I write posts I badly need to read in my future. this one is spot on for me today.
Finding the unconditional love for ourselves inside that we missed as children is perhaps our greatest adult recovery task. The pain of not being met or loved unconditionally or in an open receptive way can haunt many of us well into adulthood. The yearning for this love and deep disappointment over its absence may or may not be fully conscious. It may be triggered by what brings up the hurt we felt when we were not loved in this way. Re reading the Chapter I Forgive Myself in Michael Brown’s book The Presence Process this morning is reminding me of this as I read back some of my blogs from yesterday as well as comments left.
I think of my Dad’s generation and what they went through. Dad’s solution to the poverty and loss of his childhood was to get as far away from his family and war torn country…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 