We compensated for lack of nurturing as a child by immersing ourselves in fantasy. Fantasies of being rescued or being the rescuer abound. Knights, dragons, romance novels- getting high from fantasy becomes habit.
Are you living your life reacting to old wounds from your childhood? Old wounds that keep you telling yourself that you are never good enough, smart enough, worthy enough, beautiful enough, or perf…
The deepest core feelings of the child within are grief, toxic shame and loneliness. We were traumatised by our parents abandoning us. We feel we are bad, as if we’re contaminated, and that shame lea…
We see how a few of us struggle with great diligence and anguish to heal the traumas we carry. We also see that most of us don’t, and remain destructive toward ourselves and the world around us. I…
Rescues do not work: Collectively, We seek saviours and enemies of all sorts—externally. Onto these angels and devils the norm projects split-off dreams of fulfilment and rescue—and revenge. We alw…
The darker, unacknowledged purpose of being married with children is to create a vehicle for passing on denied trauma. Non-reflective, socially sanctioned family life with all the rigours of childre…
We have had to endured the most painful re-birth of all during the stages study course—the birth of the true self. To manifest this child within, we leave our families and indict societies ancestra…
"The art of life is to stay wide open and be vulnerable, yet at the same time to sit with the mystery and the awe and with the unbearable pain — to just be with it all." - Ram Dass - …
There is no shame in feeling emotional pain. We all feel unbearable emotional pain in our human life at some point but we usually suffer along at a repressed ebb by avoiding, distracting and suppress…
At an emotional level, we are still children. We cannot forget that the child’s worst fear is abandonment. Since the child is totally dependent on its caregivers for its survival, abandonment equal…
The Children Within are forbidden to connect with their inner world and heal their traumatic pasts, their wounded inner child commandeers their sex life in an attempt to be noticed—to finally be seen…
GATZOS have learned through hard experience that Recovery comes from the true child within. From this knowledge, integrated deeply into them, they now engage in a recovery adventure with themselves …
GATZOS have completed the most painful birth of all—the birth of the true child within. To manifest this child takes great courage to part from their godlike parents and few can take this path. But…
The Child Within is the holding bin of repressed trauma and thwarted creativity saved and buried by us as children it destroys us as adults. All that lives in our mind begins to fester and make its …
