Our childhoods teach us lessons about what to expect from others and how to relate. Trouble is, many of those lessons are stored in our subconscious.

If the lessons you learned work really well for you: you're happy mostly, you're in strong, rewarding relationships, you're successful, then, no, I don't suppose you need to examine your childhood.

If you're struggling in any of those areas, odds are you have a lot to learn from your past, as do most of us.

The counter-argument being- if you don't have anything to learn, it won't bother you to go back- you'll discuss it, not be troubled, and move on.

That's what I tell myself when my resistance comes in.

Going through the past means going through some of the pain again, but it becomes rewarding when I share it, learn from it and make meaning, transform it into doing and being better in the present. Well worth it.