Our emotions gained in childhood are always younger than our current age

Our emotions gained in childhood are always younger than our current age, formed at a time when we did not rationally understand the truth of our life.



It is common to try to force ourselves to feel and act more mature than we actually are. Because most of us are scared of the wild irrationality of our child within, we do not ever let our emotions "grow up." Child Within growing pains are just as necessary as physical or mental growing pains. We experience child within growing pains when we honestly admit to our immature emotions.

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