More Shadow Work
- Feb 27
- 2 min read
Today we will review the inner child wounds: guilt, abandonment, trust and rejection. Just a brief interaction with one of these can send a child skittering off the tracks…..sometimes permanently. Here are some which I identified the most and why,
Guilt:
Not a normal kid; had to be taken to a psychiatrist at age eleven
Lied to my mom all through adolescence into college
Disappointed my dad
Abandonment:
I never had much abandonment problems
My mom went to Florida when my OCD was bad and I had a really hard time coping
Trust:
No one (and maybe there is a part of me that blames people for this) spotted I had bipolar disorder ever until Geoff spotted it our very first session. No one listened and i suffered.
Rejection
I was bullied by my peers
I had to leave school to be homeschooled to escape the bullying and all people told me was “get your shit together"
Hello Little Me,
It isn’t going to be an easy journey but it will get better. It’s not your fault it isn’t easy. You’ll experience things other children will only have nightmares about. It is called OCD and and then it will be bipolar disorder. I spent my entire childhood feeling different from the other students and gues what? You are. Because of those curses but you also will be an amazing writer, so great your principal tells our mom you are the next Danielle Steel. They read your poem at graduation. A persuasive essay you write at age ten changes school policy. You do amazing things. You will forge a friendship with —--- and you’ll learn what it means to have a best friend.
Sincerely,
Leigh Winters
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