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When your child says the words you carried silently

Karine Flynn

“I can’t do anything right. There’s something wrong with me.”

My daughter said these words quietly, almost as if she didn’t want me to hear them. But I did. And the moment I did, something in my chest cracked open.

I knew that feeling. I’d carried it my entire childhood.

I thought I’d escaped. I’d done the work – therapy, journaling, deep self-awareness. I knew my wounds. I’d promised myself I would never recreate what I’d experienced.

But knowing isn’t healing.

Read what I discovered about unconscious patterns, the difference between intellectual awareness and embodied healing, and what it means to break the cycle – I’ve written about it for Tiny Buddha: 

Read the full story here: Breaking the Cycle of “There’s Something Wrong with Me”