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Healing your "Wounded child"

This seems to be the latest "in thing" to heal your "wounded child". And now you’ve got to go for therapy so that you can unearth the "pain and suffering" that traumatised you as a child, because that is what is stopping you from having the wonderful life you desire.

Well what you have to realise is that, yes, you may well have a wounded child, but so has everyone else. There is not one person that did not, at either a physical or an emotional level, suffer some trauma as a child. True some worse than others, but we all have, in our own way, our own wounded child. How much that child influences our lives depends on how we deal with it.

Some people accept it and move on with their lives.

Some people use it as an excuse for their present state.

Some hide behind it to avoid facing current issues.

What you must accept is that you are no longer that wounded child, unless you choose to be. Whatever happened, happened to a you that no longer is. You can only stay wounded if you choose to.

"But you can’t change the past" you say. True you cannot change your past, but you can choose what you focus on. You can choose what you give importance to, and you can choose how you remember it.

Realise this however. If you know enough to attempt to justify or defend your bad behaviour then it means that you knew enough not to have done it in the first place.

Let go of your attachment to the past. Look around you and appreciate what you have now, even if all you have is only the opportunity to change your behaviour. Look forward to your future with excitement and anticipation.

Heal your wounded child by making a firm commitment to yourself that you will stop wallowing in self-pity because of your past and that you will strive to become all that you can be in spite of your past.

To live your best life be true to the YOU, that you want to be.

Live with passion. Change your life from making a living to making a difference.

Live up to the reputation that you want to have.