REMEMBERING
AND BECOMING WHO
YOU REALLY ARE
by Judith E. Lipson, M.A., LPC
T
he next time you are in the presence of an infant or young
child, observe the authenticity with which they approach life.
If something brings pleasure, they fully radiate joy, and if something
is not making them happy, they will certainly express that as well.
The real beauty is they can swiftly return to joy with incredible ease.
Many of you inadvertently lost touch with your authenticity
after the socialization process. Seemingly insignificant
conversations might have affected your ability to know and
remember yourself. An example might be when you were told
to hug your visiting aunt. When you said that you don’t like
getting close to your aunt, the adults in your world insisted
that you ignore your feelings and go hug her anyway. Each
time you saw yourself discounted for the “greater good,”
there was the potential to lose a bit of your authentic self.
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Another common situation was when, as a child, you
were intuitive or knew things that your adult caregivers
didn’t remember, didn’t believe, or feared. Could you
see auras? Did you know things about people? Could
you predict the future? A child is reliant on physical
and emotional safety from others, so you may have
discounted your abilities and suppressed them in order
to be or feel safe.
As an adult, you can understand the bigger picture you could
not know or understand as a child. Now, you can understand
that adults did not know better. Had they known differently,
they would have acted differently; had the child understood
they could have maintained internal and external integrity,
they would have.