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Honoring the Child Within

Monday Memo for 2.20.23

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Tom Gentry
Feb 20, 2023
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When we fail to honor the child within us, he or she can come to dominate us as adults. She will scream, appealing for us to tend to her unmet needs. Her screams can then accumulate and become the wind that fills the sails by which our lives are propelled.

Sometimes what we perceive as a rejection in the present is nothing of the sort. It is merely anoth…

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