Journaling within The Ten Stages

Journaling within The Ten Stages –  writing down the truth of our feelings, our point of view, our fears, our angers, our hopes, our expectations, our desires, our fantasies, our hatreds, our regrets, our thoughts, our memories, our prejudices, our secret loves, our painful experiences, our humiliations, our past traumas – requires our trust and consent to foster intimacy with ourself and our child within. This self-intimacy is the essence of good contact with our hidden child within. Many of us find it difficult to journal – or journal in a deep and prolonged way – because of the strange new feelings of being emotionally intimate with ourself for the first time. But if we can tolerate the potential discomfort, if you can sit with the truth of who we really are and look at our truth expressed on the page in front of us, then we can nurture a wonderful relationship with our greatest ally: our own true self, the child within!

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