Have you had the experience of walking away from a conversation or a party and recognizing you were not really, genuinely yourself? When you get in public you just feel the need to hide the real you, maybe by talking too much or not talking at all. This is a brief conversation about recovering your inner-child. And while you’re at it, like and subscribe to this blog. And It will make you a better person. (It probably won’t but it can’t hurt 😂)
HERE’S THE VIDEO https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIa2d2xpBLE3aK1Pm2D42mc9h5C37j5rV&si=Qk9s9D0Qq2gmajBn
Counselors for years have done inner-child work. The idea is that you were created this perfect, pure, unblemished original you. Life happened and you picked up wounds and hurts that sent the original you into hiding. The sobbing, wounded you was too vulnerable do you became the protective you. You protected yourself by all kinds of things, anger, isolation, humor, perfectionism, codependency, whatever it was you found a way to protect yourself by. That protective you have been adapted, perfected, and refined until the you were see today is the coping, adult you, carefully covering your weak, wounded spots, and instead presenting the public you that you have learned gives you the best chance to get through life with a minimum of further hurt. Maybe you’ve become the big, boisterous bully in the room that tells the loudest jokes and demands attention; or maybe you’ve become the quiet, unobtrusive mouse that hopes no one sees or notices you, but desperately wishes you could be seen and noticed.
In any case, the public you is not the true you. The healthy, holy, happy person is the one that follows Jesus’s advice and becomes like a little child. Not just any little child, the one you were originally meant to be. We probably never make it all the way back. Who wants to go back to wearing diapers and being up all night? (Wait a minute. Maybe we do make it all the way back!)
Here are three suggestions and three steps to help you recover the inner-child in you that God intended you to be:
Suggestion 1. Don’t mistake the public you for the true you. Keep working toward authenticity.
Suggestion 2. Remember the public you is a gift from God. He has been helping you cope all along.
Suggestion 3. Ask and allow the Holy Spirit to gently restore you to the kind, gentle, nonjudgmental, original you He made you to be. And then practice the fruit of that kind of Spirit led life whenever you get a chance.
And the steps to help you follow those suggestions? Speak the truth. Surrendered your past. Ans seek the Kingdom. The goal is the 12 Step self that has “nothing to prove and nothing to hide.” I’m sure not there but I’m one day closer than I was yesterday. Now, where did I lay my diapers?