We, so-called adults are not truly adults at all.

We, so-called adults are not truly adults at all. We all get older. Anyone, with a little luck, can do that. But, speaking from a recovery viewpoint, this is not adulthood. True adulthood hinges on acknowledging, accepting, and taking responsibility for loving and re-parenting our own child within us. For most us, this never happens. Instead, our child within has been denied, neglected, disparaged, abandoned or rejected. We are told by society to "grow up," putting childish things aside. To become adults, we've been taught that our child within represents our child-like capacity for innocence, wonder, awe, joy, sensitivity and playfulness--must be stifled, quarantined or even killed. Our child within comprises and potentiates these positive qualities. But it also holds our accumulated childhood hurts, traumas, fears and angers. WE the "Grown-ups" are convinced we have successfully outgrown, jettisoned, and left this child within--and its emotional baggage--long behind. But this is far from our the truth as we begin to find out as we work on The Ten Stages and start to uncover our real truths in our recovery.