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Andrea Thorfinson's avatar

This really speaks to so much of the inner healing work I’ve done myself, inner child work, gratitude, forgiveness, and learning to look back with adult eyes at what the child in us couldn’t possibly understand at the time. I recently wrote about something from my own childhood involving my little sister, where I completely misunderstood what I had witnessed and carried a belief that was never true. As a child, I didn’t know what to do with that pain, and some of it came out toward her. It took us years of healing, but today she is one of my best friends. So your reflection on looking beyond the wound really landed for me. Not to erase what hurt, but to understand it differently, soften around it, and choose what is worth keeping. Beautiful reflection. ❤️

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you, Andrea. For reading and sharing your experience with us. And I’m glad you worked it out with your sister. Family is sacred and I love the idea when Siblings are close to one another. I’m also glad to know how you did the healing process of the inner child, I should explore your work more. In the present stage of our life, we always think we see and understand everything, and I realized that taking time to review them may soften the way we carry them.

Sincerely Seb's avatar

This was a touching reflection and you captured the understanding and damage that can happen to the child very well.

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you, Seb. For reading, commenting and sharing. I greatly appreciate your support. And I like the way you put it, it resume the whole dynamic in the relation with children.

Sattie R's avatar

I'm grateful to my mother for never leaving us, for always taking care of us, for protecting us as best as she could.

Odel Asseille's avatar

Thank you, Sattie 😊

She is an amazing woman. And when I see how you support and care for others in here, you must have inherit a lot from her.

Sattie R's avatar

I am told that I am like her in many ways.

Odel Asseille's avatar

That’s a good thing, I think 🫶🏼😊