Have you met your Inner Child?

You might see them as yourself in your early years.
You might seem them as a patchwork of childhood.
You may even just see dreams of youthful play.

An awareness of your Inner Child can you bring balance to your life.

#innerchildwork #csa #healing

First, not everyone associates childhood with playfulness and fun. If you, like me, have experience the wounds of emotional, physical, mental, sexual, or any other type of abuse - childhood can rouse feelings of suspicion, fear, and vulnerability. You may carry pain buried deep..
inside that aims to protect you from both your present self and the child you once were.

For years, I buried this pain afraid to release it for fear I might disappear in the weight of it. I feared connecting with my inner children as much as they feared being seen.

More from Life

1/“What would need to be true for you to….X”

Why is this the most powerful question you can ask when attempting to reach an agreement with another human being or organization?

A thread, co-written by @deanmbrody:


2/ First, “X” could be lots of things. Examples: What would need to be true for you to

- “Feel it's in our best interest for me to be CMO"
- “Feel that we’re in a good place as a company”
- “Feel that we’re on the same page”
- “Feel that we both got what we wanted from this deal

3/ Normally, we aren’t that direct. Example from startup/VC land:

Founders leave VC meetings thinking that every VC will invest, but they rarely do.

Worse over, the founders don’t know what they need to do in order to be fundable.

4/ So why should you ask the magic Q?

To get clarity.

You want to know where you stand, and what it takes to get what you want in a way that also gets them what they want.

It also holds them (mentally) accountable once the thing they need becomes true.

5/ Staying in the context of soliciting investors, the question is “what would need to be true for you to want to invest (or partner with us on this journey, etc)?”

Multiple responses to this question are likely to deliver a positive result.

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