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Originally Posted by artemis-within
I'm gonna be 54 on July 4. But I am quite in touch with my inner 15 year old (I call her 15 for short), in fact was just talking with t about her today. A lot of the push-pull I experience with t sometimes, is because of 15 being activated by stuff. (I never believed in the whole 'inner child' idea, until current t helped me understand.) I realized early on in therapy that my emotional development for all intents and purposes stopped when I was 15, the year my beloved grandma died, she was more of a mother to me than my mother was. So part of my therapy has been about 'growing up' 15, in a way.
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I'm 51 but feel so much younger! I always have. I have a 12 year old part of me that I feel holds my "voice". There are 3 things that my counselor told me that children of trauma loose. Their voice. Their freedom. Their ability to have a true relationship with someone else. I think that's right. It really feels like I've got caught up in a time warp, if that makes sense.
Age is a matter of mind. I believe that is true.
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