Ease up, child. Ease up.
If you think about it, our great assets of character today are often byproducts of the ways we learned to survive as small children. We have spent a lifetime honing them, for better or for worse, as an internal and often subconscious message of how and when we deserve love. By adulthood, we have become masters of these survival mechanisms, and they define who we are in relationship with others. Nerves that fire together, wire together, afterall. They can show up as the charac