We who cannot handle the pain and vulnerability of growth are consigned to stay stuck in life.

We who cannot handle the pain and vulnerability of growth are consigned to stay stuck in life. We must keep our true selves buried from the world’s eye and from our own. We cannot face our full range of feelings because this is too dangerous. These feeling tell the truth. We must instead act out our inner truth – our buried pain and rage – in disguised form, through addictions and self-destructive behaviours and inappropriate relationships and even physical illness. The body tells the truth when the conscious psyche cannot.