How close or far away are you from your Child Within?

Reduced, adapted and revised by bd from: Thich Nhat Hanh (2011)”Healing the Child Within” https://www.mindful.org/healing-the-child-within/

In each of us, there is a young, suffering child. We have all had times of difficulty as children and many of us have experienced trauma.

To protect and defend ourselves against future suffering, we often try to forget our painful memories. Every time we re-encounter a memory of suffering, the immature chooser Self believes destruction has come again. We turn away from it…