If you have ever wondered why it is so much easier to feel Spiritual in relationship to nature or animals, here is your answer.

Past Inner Child Art...I feel like this NOW. (Photo credit: Urban Woodswalker)

  It was people who wounded us in childhood.  It is people who our egos developed defense systems to protect us from.
I have told people for years, that the only reason to do inner child healing work is if we are going to interact with other people.  If one is going to live in isolation on a mountain top meditating, it will be fairly easy to feel Spiritually connected.  It is relating to other human beings that is messy.

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