Childhood Angst Sabotaging Adult Lives

- Donna Kemper

You consider yourself a functioning adult who holds a job, carries responsibility for a maintaining or co-maintaining a household, and who makes appropriate decisions for yourself and/or others. And yet there are times when one seemingly insignificant or harmless action or statement pushes a button and then throws you into your automatic defense loop, and totally derails you.
 
As soon as that button is pushed, you have been plugged into an earlier memory of an unpleasant situation which has never been fully resolved. If the emotions from the original events have never been fully discharged, what do you suppose happens to that excess energy? It stays stuck in the body. And each and every time you become triggered in that way and suppress the emotion it evokes, you compound the situation. Eventually it is bound to show up physically in the body in the form of headaches, backaches, TMJ, neck pain, digestive issues, etc.

Whenever you find yourself sabotaging yourself, there’s a good reason and it usually goes back to old coping strategies that someone in the past thought might work.
 
They are different depending on where your ancestors come from and they get passed down the family line until we pick them up as children and think they are how life is.
 
They affect how we see ourselves and others and the world and they are usually limiting. They are what stops us from being us. They are what we struggle with all our lives.
 
And with tapping you can clear what doesn’t belong to you and start life afresh. When you’re only dealing with your own “stuff,” life becomes much easier and you find yourself flowing with life rather than struggling against it.
You get to keep the strengths that struggle has given you and let go of the beliefs that are holding you back. Tap with me and set yourself free to be you!