Posted by baseball55 on January 28, 2014, at 20:58:57
In reply to Re: Inner Child Work, posted by Ronnjee on January 28, 2014, at 13:50:33
> No, but the first thing that came to mind is a line from the Eagles' song "Get Over It" where Henley sings, "I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little *ss".
"Get over it" is the worst thing I can say to myself. I said it to myself for years and just pushed myself harder and harder until I got addicted to drugs and started falling apart. If you can't feel compassion for yourself, you can't function and can't feel compassion for others, so you will be cut off and isolated. Get over it, snap out of it -- these are the hateful, hurtful, un-empathic things we say to ourselves and others that feed shame and despair.
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